FROM TERROR TO TRIBUTE. Days after the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing, the Atlanta Games didn’t end with pure celebration — they ended with a moment of remembrance. At the Closing Ceremony, IOC chief Juan Antonio Samaranch honoured the victims… then Stevie Wonder sang “Imagine” and the whole stadium went still. No spectacle. Just a global crowd holding one shared breath — proving the Olympics could be shaken, but not silenced.

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FROM TERROR TO TRIBUTE: The HEARTBREAKING Olympic MOMENT When Stevie Wonder Sang ‘IMAGINE’ After the Atlanta Bombing — How the 1996 Games Turned GRIEF Into DEFIANCE Before a Global Audience… Read more