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| |  Wednesday, 4 July, 2001, 18:03 GMT 19:03 UK Athens to Seoul Great names and moments from the history of the Olympics (1896-1988).  Finland's Paavo Nurmi wins one of his five gold medals in Paris 1924, having won three four years earlier  Jesse Owens was the undisputed star of Berlin 1936 with four golds  12 years later, London hosted the next Olympics and Holland's Fanny Blankers-Koen won four golds  Bob Beamon set a long jump world record in 1968 of 6.80m that lasted until 1991  At the same Games, Dick Fosbury (US) invented his famous 'flop' to win gold in the high jump  Mark Spitz dominated in the Munich pool of 1972, accumulating an incredible seven gold medals  The Soviet Union's Olga Korbut, aged 17, won three golds in gymnastics in Munich  Four years later in Montreal, Romania's Nadia Comaneci won five medals at the age of 14  Seb Coe and Steve Ovett head to head in the 800m and the 1500m in Moscow, 1980  Daley Thompson won his second gold in the Olympic decathlon at Los Angeles  But the star of 1984 was Carl Lewis. America's greatest Olympian took four titles | |
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