Barcelona remembers Olympics 30 years on with show reliving key moments
Parts of opening and closing ceremonies screened and performance of 'Barcelona' anthem featured in emotional event
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Barcelona to celebrate 30th anniversary of 1992 Olympic Games by honoring volunteers
Commemoration to take place in city hall with "special importance" given to those who helped during the event
Barcelona has a new Olympic Games mascot 30 years later
Original designer updates mascot in a special edition of 'Condé Nast Traveler' magazine
Architect Oriol Bohigas, 'father of modern Barcelona,' dies at 95
Urban planner was main person in charge of city's transformation before 1992 Olympics, including opening up to the sea
Barcelona 25 years on from 1992 Olympics: a city still glittering a little too much?
The main architect of the great transformation the city experienced a quarter of a century ago says opening up to the sea was the principal feat
30 years since Barcelona’s Olympic nomination
On a day like today, 30 years ago, Barcelona achieved its long-time dream to become the venue for the Olympic Games. It was 1.30 pm on Friday the 17th of October 1986 when the President of the International Olympic Committee, Juan Antonio Samaranch, announced that Barcelona had just won the nomination to host the major sports event in 1992. The proclamation was followed by an outburst of joy in Catalonia and also in the Palais de Beaulie of Lausanne, the venue of the IOC session. Barcelona won the race over five other cities, Paris, Brisbane (Australia), Belgrade, Amsterdam and Birmingham, and by doing so it gained a place on the world map, undertook a major urban transformation and breathed into its citizens a feeling of great pride in their city.