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Remembering the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta

Watching all these great American and international athletes in the Olympics this month has got us feeling so nostalgic! 

Some of you all might be too young to remember this, but the Olympics in Atlanta was a huge deal for this city. The Olympics really put Atlanta on the map internationally, we as a city showed that we were indeed a world class city. 

Some of our favorite moments in the Olympics included watching a young Floyd Mayweather boxing (even though he was cheated out of a shot at the gold medal), playing in the water fountains at Centennial Olympic Park as kids, and of course the greatest fighter of all time Muhammad Ali lighting the torch!

It’s also crazy to think that Turner Field (the home of the Atlanta Braves baseball team) was once a round 85,000 person stadium that housed a lot of major Olympic events like track and field. Now Turner Field is going to be converted into a multi-sport stadium by our alma-mater Georgia State University.

Atlanta is an ever-changing beast, but we keep finding reasons to love it more and more every year.

Cheers to ATL and the Olympics.

//BWT//

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