EMMA LABRADOR PORTFOLIO: April 2019

OLYMPIC GAMES OF BARCELONA 1992

BARCELONA-FREDDIE MERCURY AND MONTSERAT CABALLÉ.

The 1992 Summer Olympic Games (Spanish: Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992; Catalan: Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spainfrom July 25 to August 9, 1992.

Beginning in 1994, the International Olympic Committee decided to hold the games in alternating even-numbered years; as a result, the 1992 Summer Olympics were the last competition to be staged in the same year as the Winter Olympics.The games were the first to be unaffected by boycotts since 1972 and the first summer games since the end of the Cold War.

The Unified Team topped the medal table, winning 45 gold and 112 overall medals.

Highlights

At the Opening Ceremony Greek mezzo-soprano Agnes Baltsa sang "Romiossini" as the Olympic flag was paraded around the stadium. Alfredo Kraus later sang the Olympic Hymn in both Catalan and Spanish as the flag was hoisted.

South Africa was allowed to compete in the Olympic Games for the first time since the 1960 Summer Olympics, after a long suspension for its apartheid policy. After a close race in the Women's 10,000 metres event, white South African runner Elana Meyer and black Ethiopian runner Derartu Tulu (winner) ran a victory lap together, hand-in-hand.

In basketball, the admittance of NBA players led to the formation of the "Dream Team" of the United States, featuring Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and other NBA stars. Prior to 1992, only European and South American professionals were allowed to compete, while the Americans used college players. The Dream Team won the gold medal and was inducted as a unit into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010.

Here you have a video:

➡➡➡ https://youtu.be/JTNIWbGmzGU

The anthem for this olympic games was created by Freddie Mercury and the sopranno Monstserat Caballé, they filmed a lot of versions of this song called *Barcelona*, bur the couldn´t sing it together in the olympics because Freddie died in 1991.
Originally the song was composed by Freddie and Mike Moran.

This is the song! click here ➡➡➡ https://youtu.be/Y1fiOJDXA-E

INFORMATION OF THE SINGERS

FREDDIE MERCURY

Real name: Farrokh Bulsara
birth:	5 of september 1946 Stone Town, Zanzíbar
Nathion:	Britanic
death:	24 of november 1991(45 years) london
work:	:Musician, singer, composer, producer, pianist and showman