Talk:1992 Summer Olympics

List of Broadcasters
I'm requesting a thorough review of the list of broadcasters indicated on the page, since it includes companies that havent existed at the time of the games (like satellite channels and HD broadcaster.) Only a handful of European and Japanese experts at that time recorded certain segments in analogue HD on an engineering test basis.) Daxdigital (talk) 22:06, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Please view: Official Olympic Games 1992 Barcelona Official Report describing Roller Hockey
This piece can be read and is free in its entirety. Roller Hockey (RH) is found on pages 294 thru 297 of Volume IV (109.5MB) a description and additinal information can be found at:

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excerpt: "Roller hockey is a sport with a long history in Catalonia. The Federació Catalana de Patinatge was set up in 1928, although matches had been played on a rink in Turó Parc in Barcelona since 1915. Barcelona's candidature in 1986 included roller hockey for the first time on the Olympic programme as a demonstration sport. The 12 teams taking part were divided into two groups. Group A played in Vic, and was made up of Portugal, Argentina, Italy, the United States of America, Switzerland and Japan while Group B played in Sant Sadurní d'Anoia and was made up of the Netherlands, Brazil, Spain, Germany, Angola and Australia. The ....."

Argentina won the gold at the 92 Olympics masterfully playing a demonstration sport called Roller Hockey as defined by the I.O.C

The demonstration sport was not called Rink Hockey at the 1992 Olympics it was called Roller Hockey (specifically). --Hardballhock 09:13, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Belarus
There is the claim that a Belarussian won an equal-record number of medals, yet Belarus isn't on the participating country list. Did they compete as part of the Soviet Union?


 * Not technically as part of the Soviet Union (as the USSR dissolved prior to the Games), but Belarus did compete on a combined team with many other former Soviet republics. The team was known as the Unified Team.  -- Jonel | Speak 21:26, 19 October 2006 (UTC) not real at all

The Parade of Nations of Barcelona 1992
Hi.

I read here that only four National Olympic Committees didn´t send athletes to compete to the XXVth Olympiad: Afghanistan, Brunei, Liberia and Somalia. In YouTube videos about Barcelona 1992 Opening Ceremony this nations took part in the parade (just only the flagbearers carry the national flags)

Jaboolanee (talk) 02:20, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Torch lighting
I believe the reference concerning the torch lighting is incorrect. It is true that Antonio Rebello intentionally overshot the cauldron (which was obvious to anyone watching it); however, he DID light the flame. They used an oversized cauldron and turned the gas on well before the lighting ceremony to saturate the air above the cauldron. When Rebello's flaming arrow passed over the cauldron, it ignited the gas in the air, thus lighting the cauldron. (Ironically, it was the 1992 Winter Olympics that had a "fake" lighting ceremony; the flames came roaring out of the cauldron seconds BEFORE the flaming ball got to its lip, and the cauldron's design made it impossible to have been indirectly lit like Rebello did at Barcelona.) Now, if I only had a reference... --RBBrittain (talk) 21:30, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

This is highly debatable...the video clearly shows the flames coming from the base of the cauldron, rather than erupting in mid-air (as one would expect if he had successfully lit the cloud of gas)...had the arrow been low enough to ignite the fire from whereit begins burning, the arrow would have landed in the cauldron - which it has already been established that it did not. The most likely course of events was that a pilot-light had been ignited earlier in the day from one of the back-up torches, and only turned "on" when the arrow passed over the cauldron. 141.217.229.199 (talk) 04:13, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

Dead link
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--JeffGBot (talk) 01:42, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Yemen
Shouldn't Yemen be shown as deep blue on the map of participating countries, seeing that this was the first time ever a united Yemeni team competed, due to the two-years-previous merger of North Yemen and South Yemen? Whoop whoop pull up Bitching Betty 23:13, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Gold Medal Challenge '92 not Published in Spain.
Was there some sort of licensing issue that prevented Capcom from Publishing their game based on these Olympics in the country where they took place? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.111.44.124 (talk) 18:41, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Unknown format error bypassed
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End of the Cold War?
The article says these Games were "the first since the end of the Cold War" but the Winter Games in Albertville were held earlier that same year. Ianthegecko (talk) 20:47, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
 * you're correct, as the Cold War ended in December 26, 1991.84.54.120.157 (talk) 01:49, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

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