On This Day: September 17, 1988 — Seoul Opened the Olympics and Nothing Went According to Plan
On September 17, 1988, Seoul, South Korea opened the XXIV Summer Olympics — the first Games since 1972 where the United States, Soviet Union, and both German nations all competed simultaneously. Over the following 16 days, Ben Johnson was stripped of his 100m world-record gold after testing positive for steroids, Florence Griffith Joyner set 100m…