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1988 Seoul Summer Games
9421 Athletes, 160 Countries, 237 Events

In the last Olympic Summer Games of the Cold War, the 1988 Games were awarded to South Korea. The Olympics were used once again as a political vehicle as North Korea, Cuba, Ethiopia, and Nicaragua, all boycotted the Games. The United States and the Soviet Republic each returned to the Olympics after boycotting each other's Games in Moscow 1980 and Los Angeles 1984. The extra time off didn't hurt the USSR as it claimed the overall medal count with 132 medals, 55 of which were gold. Sohn Keechung, a Korean, who won the marathon at the 1936 Berlin Games while Korea was occupied by Japan, lit the Olympic cauldron.

Table tennis was added as an official sport and tennis was reinstituted after a 62year absence.

East German Christa LudingRothenburger became the only person ever in history to win medals in the Summer and Winter Olympics in the same year.

LudingRothenburger won silver in the inaugural women's cycling match sprint to go with a silver and gold she had won at the 1988 Calgary Games in speed skating.

The Ivy League sent 35 athletes, the majority of which were rowers. The team also included two people who competed in equestrian and seven fencers. The final Ivy medal count stood at 15; two gold, five silver, and eight bronze.

The one gold medal belonged to Harvard's Norman Bellingham '94. Bellingham teamed with Gregory Barton to take the top place in the pairs kayak 1000meter race.

Harvard's David Berkoff '89 took gold in the 400medley relay and a silver in the 100meter backstroke. He also initiated an Olympic rules change with his controversial start. Berkoff, who was a senior at Harvard, used a submarine start where he swam 32 kicks underwater before emerging about 30 meters into the race. Using his start in the prelims Berkoff swam a 54.51 to set the world record. In the final though, his start was slow and Daichi Suzuki from Japan, also using the submarine start, ended up winning by 10 inches.

Immediately after the Seoul Games the F.I.N.A. banned the submarine start and aid that any swimmer still underwater after 10 meters was automatically disqualified.