A competitor leaps from the 10m platform during the women's diving competition at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
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The 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona were the first Games that didn’t face a boycott since 1972, thanks to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. A key line from the President’s speech congratulating the U.S. team (led by Arnold Schwarzenegger) for coming in second in overall medals: “In 1989 the wall came down in Berlin, and this summer more barriers tumbled there in Barcelona. This was an Olympics, this is why I say it’s historic, without boycotts, without terrorism, without politics. And it’s just exactly as it ought to be.”