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1996 Atlanta Summer Games
10744 Athletes, 197 Countries, 271 Events

The Olympics returned to the United States after a 12year break. Atlanta was chosen over Athens despite the fact it would be the Centennial Games. It was the first time that the Summer Games had happened in the United States since Los Angeles in 1984. Muhammad Ali, who had won the boxing gold in the lightheavyweight division in 1960, lit the Olympic cauldron. 79 nations won medals which was a record at the time until 80 nations won medals in Sydney.

The Ivy league sent a 36member contingent almost half of which (17) were rowers. But the League also had some more creative athletes like Dartmouth's Dana Chladek '85 who took silver in women's kayaking and Brown's Jim Pedro '94 who won bronze in his second of what to date will be four Olympic appearances in Judo.

Chladek, who is Czechoslovakian and moved to the United States when she was five, finished tied for the gold but her competitor's noncounting second run was much better so Chladek ended up with silver.

In all, the League won seven medals╤two golds, two silvers and three bronzes.

Columbia's Cristina Teuscher '00 took home one of the two top medals. Teuscher claimed her precious medal when she raced the second leg of the 4x200 meter freestyle relay. With Germany in the lead, Teuscher, who was still an undergrad at Columbia, turned in a 1:58.86 to vault the United States into the lead. The U.S. squad never looked back and cruised to the gold while setting the Olympic record. Teuscher went on to be named the NCAA Athlete of the Year in 2000 and claimed a bronze medal at the Sydney Olympics later that year.

The other 1996 Ivy League gold belonged to Brown's Xeno Mueller ('94). Mueller competed for Switzerland in the single sculls. He had also spent parts of his childhood in Germany, Spain and France, before coming to Providence. Mueller was in third with 500 meters to go before turning in a 1:36.56 to leave the competition in his wake. Four years later, in Sydney, Mueller took silver in the same event.