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Article: Record 161 in Summer Olympics
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 18, 1988
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland A record 161 countries were entered Sunday
for the Summer Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee
said.
Sunday, Syria became the 161st country to enter the Games, which
begin Sept. 17 at Seoul, the capital of South Korea.
The previous record attendance was 140 countries at the 1984 Los
Angeles Games.
The Seoul Games will be the first Summer Olympics in 12 years to
pit Soviet and U.S. athletes against each other, following a
Soviet-led boycott of the Los Angeles Games and a U.S.-led boycott of
the 1980 Moscow Games.
But they still have been marred by politics. South Korea's
chief ideological foe, North Korea, has said it wants to co-host the
Games ...