Many athletes from these games went on to play in the 2000 Summer Olympics, the 2004 Summer Olympics, and the 2008 Summer Olympics.
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Children from around the world competed in junior versions of events that were found in the Summer Olympic Games of the late 1980s.
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These events took place during the last decade of the Cold War and the Berlin Wall would be destroyed the following year.
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