He was really beaten and committed a foul in the process, which counts a lot in the Olympics. You get points, and the foul involves subtracting points from the total.
He lost. He refused to leave the ring. The cameras were still on him. He presented a picture of utter dejection. People came up and tapped him on the shoulder, but he just sat there. The commentators began to laugh at him. He stayed there in the center of the ring for about an hour. They would keep cutting back to show him. I thought that this was just perfectly without any shred of taste. What was happening to that young man was that his whole life was in ruins.
He had lived to be an Olympic boxer. He was a hero in his hometown. He had a salary. He had preferment. He had goodies which were otherwise probably unthinkable for his family. He had the responsibility for keeping all of that going. It was all gone. He knew that they would set the dogs on him in his home village.
He would be pelted with stones when he got back there. I think that it was a particularly bad case of insensitivity. It did exactly what it was supposed to do. The Koreans worked in their usual industrious fashion and built the right kinds of stadiums and other venues, organized themselves, and put on a spectacular show. There was a U. The head of the delegation was the estimable and fabled Vernon Walters who at the time was U.
Ambassador to the United Nations. Walters was separately being invited by the Koreans anyway because of his long association with Korea and was coming on his own USAF [U. Air Force] airplane for the opening ceremonies. He and his group were totally professional and easy to deal with. The real problem was the rest of the presidential delegation which was coming mostly on one VC VIP airplane from Andrews [Air Force base in Maryland], but there were others coming separately as well: one was the Counselor of the State Department, Edward Derwinski, a former Republican Congressman from Chicago.
His wife was coming separately from him. The group was a varied collection of people, including some who had Olympic connections. One was a Korean-American who had won a gold medal in Los Angeles in as a diver….
Sammy Lee. Louganis was going to be a big star in Seoul. These people all were coming in one flight but soon wanted to scatter to the winds. Each one of them thought they were important enough to have their own schedules. Trying to keep track of all of these characters was really a major problem. He had a breakfast for the group of them at the Residence.
At the breakfast, Ed Derwinski, Counselor of the Department, was accusing the Ambassador and the embassy of being against the Seoul Olympics from the start. As best Ambassador Lilley and I could figure out, he meant that the embassy had been accurately reporting the repression of the Chun Doo- Hwan government over the years before it was replaced by the more democratic government of Roh Tae-Woo. Derwinski, who was of a conservative persuasion, was incensed at this, in effect angry that the Embassy had been doing its job on the political front….
She was incensed to find out that she was not invited. The Soviet minister of sports was not invited either. Anyway, it was a difficult juggling match because we were trying to cater to them to the extent that we possibly could….
The Olympic Games, aside from being a great triumph for Korea both in terms of organization and of the face that Korea put to the world was, as far as I was concerned, also a festival of anti-Americanism.
This included the opening ceremony. The American team was waving to the crowds and cheering, and some of them were wearing Mickey Mouse ears and things like this as young, happy, naive Americans traveling abroad probably for the first time would normally do. This greatly offended the Korean news media who decided that this was not decorous enough and respectful enough of Korea for their sensibilities, and they began blasting the American team for that breach of decorum. They just picked it up.
From the media outcry, you would have thought that these swimmers had burned down the presidential mansion, the Blue House. The outrage was unbelievable.
I was, as I often was, in the embassy that Saturday afternoon. The incident was on a Friday night, and I was in the embassy all day Saturday, and the phones were almost literally ringing off the hook with outraged Koreans calling. The poor embassy operators were just beside themselves trying to field the calls.
I remember talking to one man who was just furious. How could they possibly steal somethin. NBC Sports had the broadcast rights for the Olympics. They did a masterful job of broadcasting. Also as part of their programming they had prepared a number of really good — what would you call them? Some of my relatives wrote me how much they learned about Korea from this fantastic coverage that NBC Sports was giving the country.
However, there was at least one spot about black marketing and prostitution particularly around the U. A small bomb ex. So there was a very strong concern about security not so much about Islamic radicals although this was not too many years after the Palestinian outrage in Munich.
So we had a lot of security related people there in Seoul working with the Koreans on a very broad basis. The Olympics aside from being an enormously successful sporting event, was indeed a showcase for Korea. The Koreans did a masterly job of building the venues that they needed, bringing athletes and visitors in, organizing everything, making sure that every event went smoothly, and that the opening and closing ceremonies were spectacular.
The whole thing was fantastic and a great triumph for the Korean people. But it was also tremendous on a political level. The North Koreans were just left in the dust. However, various socialist National Olympic Committees reacted with incomprehension. The IOC also decided that it would send invitations to the Games itself and did not leave this task to the organizing committee as had been done before. Despite these developments, behind the scenes, the IOC did consider relocating the Games and explored the suitability of Munich as an alternative.
Another point of conflict was the involvement of North Korea in hosting the Games, something that had been encouraged by Cuban president Fidel Castro , who called for North Korea to be considered joint host of the Games. North Korea demanded that eleven of the 23 Olympic sports be carried out on its territory, and also demanded special opening and closing ceremonies. It wanted a joint organizing committee and a united team. The negotiations were continued into another meeting, but were not successful.
The IOC did not meet the demands of North Korea and only about half of the desired sporting events were offered to the North. So the focus thereafter was solely on Seoul and South Korea. North Korea boycotted the Games after the failed negotiations and was supported by Cuba , Nicaragua and Ethiopia. Albania and the Seychelles also did not attend, but, in order to avoid sanctions by the IOC, did not call their absence a boycott.
The participation of Madagascar had been expected, and their team was expected at the opening ceremony of nations. However, the country joined the North Korean boycott. In the runup to the Olympics, the South Korean government ordered Seoul's "vagrants" to be cleared from the street.
In , the Seoul Olympic Organizing Committee SLOOC decided to produce and distribute an official song of the Seoul Games to publicize the Games to all the IOC member nations, encouraging their participation in the festival and consolidating the harmony and friendship of the entire world citizens through the song.
The World Peace Gate in Seoul. Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool. Seoul Olympic Park in autumn. Erich Buljung shows a silver medal he won in the 10m air pistol competition at the Summer Olympics.
These were the demonstration sports in the games: [1]. Athletes from nations competed at the Seoul Games. Guam made their first Summer Olympic appearance at these games having participated in the Winter Olympics in Calgary.
In the following list, the number in parentheses indicates the number of athletes from each nation that competed in Seoul: [40]. Template:Color box Host nation South Korea. Korean Air. Visa Card. The official mascot for the Summer Olympic Games was Hodori. It was a stylized tiger designed by Kim Hyun as an amicable Amur tiger , portraying the friendly and hospitable traditions of the Korean people.
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