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1980 The late Lou Silverstein designed The New York Timesspecial section previewing the 1980 Winter Games, which earned an award of excellence in the very first SND annual (the only Olympic page to win that year). The Winter Games saw the Miracle on Ice U.S. hockey team upset the Soviets, but the U.S. then boycotted the Summer Games in Moscow.

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Page 1: Olympic Pages

1980

The late Lou Silverstein designed The New York Times’ special section previewing the 1980 Winter Games, which earned an award of excellence in the very first SND annual (the only Olympic page to win that year). The Winter Games saw the Miracle on Ice U.S. hockey team upset the Soviets, but the U.S. then boycotted the Summer Games in Moscow.

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1984

In 1984, USA Today was still in its infancy as The Nation’s Newspaper. But its identity as a visual game-changer was already established. Its daily viewer’s guide and explanatory graphics for the 1984 Los Angeles Games were ground-breaking, earning Gold for SND founding member Richard Curtis and his staff.

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1984

A third SND Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Nan Bisher, spearheaded the Orange County Register’s design coverage of the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles. Mary Lou Retton earned Gold in L.A., Bisher and the Register staff earned Silver from SND for their design and photo coverage.

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1984

One of the defining moments in Los Angeles: the fall of Mary Decker in the 3000 meter final. Decker was heavily favored to win, but in the home stretch she collided with Zola Budd of Britain and didn’t finish. Vicki Wiggington of the Long Beach (Calif.) Press-Telegram captured the moment.

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1988

The 1988 Games in Seoul, South Korea, saw an explosion of sophisticated explanatory graphics. Pegie Stark and Robert Graham designed and art directed a series of sport previews for the Detroit News.

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1988

One of the remarkable storylines in Seoul: Diver Greg Louganis smashes his head on the board attempting a reverse two-and-a-half somersault, and wipes out. It was his first mishap in more than 200,000 dives. After some fast stitches, he came back with a set of near-perfect dives to win Gold. Photographer Brian Smith of the Miami Herald got the image.

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1988

Too good to be true: Ben Johnson of Canada shocks Carl Lewis and the world with a world-record-setting time in the 100-meter final. His Gold medal was rescinded and Johnson’s name became synonymous with doping. Deborah Withey and Andrew Hartley led the Detroit Free Press’ Silver-medal coverage.

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1992

Pole-vaulter Sergey Bubka of the Ukraine had an amazing career, winning Gold in Seoul and breaking the world record 35 times, but at the 1992 Barcelona Games he came away empty. Spanish papers, however, came up huge in 1992: In the 14th Edition of the SND annual, 88 of the 135 international winners came from Spain.

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1992

Historic moment for Spain: race walker Daniel Plaza Montero won the country’s first-ever Gold in track & field. Carlos Perez de Rozas led the design team at La Vanguardia in Barcelona.

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1992

Introducing the ripped nameplate: Ricardo Bermejo and team won Silver and numerous other awards for their elegant design and terrific photo coverage in the Barcelona ’92 newspaper, which was based in Pamplona, Spain.

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1992

A bold drawing style and expressive use of color characterized a Gold-medal winning set of infographics pages from the Associated Press/El Mundo/El Periodico de Cataluna. Karl Gude, Jeff Goertzen, Andrew Lucas, Mario Tascon and others contributed to the work.

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1992

One of the great Olympic headlines: “Lights, Catalonia, Action” on this Silver-winning page from Fred Norgaard, Tom Bodkin and The New York Times staff.

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1996

Atlanta is one of just three U.S. cities to host the Summer Games (St. Louis hosted in 1904, Los Angeles in 1932 and 1984), and its winning bid to host the Centennial Games was an upset (Athens was favored but would have to wait 8 more years). Illustrator Keith Webb of the Boston Globe designed this winning special section cover.

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1996

Kerri Strug gave one of the 1996 Olympics’ gutsiest performances, sticking her vault on an injured ankle to help the U.S. to its first-ever team Gold medal in women’s gymnastics. Tracy Porter built this page for the Virginian-Pilot.

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1996

Coming off a Bronze-medal finish in Barcelona, the U.S. women’s basketball team took Gold in Atlanta. While the U.S. men’s ‘Dream Teams’ sweep up the bulk of the publicity, this edition of the women’s team was no slouch either, featuring legends such as Lisa Leslie, Rebecca Lobo and Sheryl Swoopes. Harris Siegel and Andrew Prendimano directed the coverage for the Asbury Park Press.

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1996

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution went to town on the Olympics, beginning with the site announcement in 1990, through to the closing ceremonies. Tony DeFeria, D.W. Pine, and many others led the design aspect of the groundbreaking coverage, which included multiple daily special sections during the Games, and which resulted in a Judges’ Special Recognition from SND.

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1996

Birth of the mega-page? This four-page effort from the graphic artists at El Mundo del Siglo XXXI magazine in Madrid, Spain, chronicled the history of the Games, showed incredible attention to detail, won Gold, and perhaps spawned a new industry: the tape-together newspaper poster.

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2000

The Olympics went to Sydney, Australia, in 2000. The Games’ visit to the Southern Hemisphere gave designers at The Boston Globe a chance to play with the notion of ‘Down Under.’

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2000

Inge de Bruijn of the Netherlands won three Gold medals in Sydney. Her win over Therese Alshammer of Sweden in the 100 m freestyle, by a full 2.8 meters, is depicted here in the Swedish paper Svenska Dagbladet with the headline, “How do you reverse this, Therese?” Like Alshammer in the pool, Rickard Frank and Tomas Oneborg won Silver for this entry.

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2000

The high jump has been an Olympic sport since ancient Greece, and for most of its history featured a straight-on approach. A series of new techniques (from the roll to the straddle to the flop) introduced during the 20th century led to raising of the world record by more than 2 feet, a process described on this page from the National Post, art directed by Gayle Grin.

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2000

The feud between the American and Australian swim teams simmered in the lead-up to the Sydney Games, with brash American Gary Hall promising “We will smash [the Australian team] like guitars,” and Australian star Kieren Perkins replying “I don’t take a lot of notice of drug cheats.” Hall won 3 Golds in Sydney, Perkins won a Silver. I doubt they shared watermelon and juice boxes afterward. Simon Pipe of The Australian designed this page.

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2000

Two quintessential Brazilian sports: women’s beach volleyball won Silver while the men’s soccer team got knocked out, medal-less, by Cameroon. Brazilian paper Correio Braziliense conveyed the glory and disillusion of the moment.

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2000

American Maurice Greene took Gold in the 100 meters in Sydney. Later, like all great athletes of this generation, he appeared on Dancing With The Stars. The Sunday Herald in Glasgow, Scotland, earned a Judges Special Recognition for their fearless design approach. But to my knowledge no Sunday Herald staffers have appeared on Dancing With The Stars.

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2004

Athens was the home of the Ancient Olympic Games, and the birthplace of the modern Games in 1896, so the motto for Athens 2004 was “Welcome Home.” The 1896 Games featured 241 athletes from 14 countries; the 2004 games featured 10,625 athletes from 201 countries. The San Diego Union-Tribune captured the spirit of Athens in this Silver-winning preview section cover.

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2004

Striking portrait photography of California’s Olympic athletes by Jim Gensheimer kicked off the San Jose Mercury News’ coverage of Athens Games and won Gold from SND. The U.S. won 35 Gold and 101 total medals to lead the medal table in Athens.

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2004

The triumph is simply in competing, states this preview section from La Presse in Montreal. How did the pictured Canadian athletes fare? Diver Emilie Heymans took bronze, while Fanny Letourneau and Courtney Stewart placed sixth in synchronized swimming.

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2004

Daiane dos Santos was Brazil’s top gymnastics hopeful going into Athens, and Estado de Minas in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, profiled her with this page. Dos Santos reached the final of the floor exercise competition, but tumbled out of bounds and finished fifth.

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2004

Another unhappy ending: The U.S. women’s gymnastics team went into Athens as the defending world champions, and were billed as the best U.S. team ever. But a series of mishaps and lackluster performances led to a second-place finish, behind Romania. The Chicago Tribune captured the disappointment.

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2004

The Greek debt crisis can perhaps be attributed to the amount of gold Michael Phelps extracted from the country: the U.S. swimmer won six times. Heading into London, he has 14 Gold medals, more than any individual in the history of the Games. In 2004, Michael Currie and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram marked Phelps’ first Olympic triumph.

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2008

The full potential of the mega-page, realized. This Silver-medal winning infographic/artistic masterpiece by the newspaper Bayan in Dubai, United Arab Emirates previews the major events at the Beijing 2008 Games. It’s 36 full broadsheet pages. I asked my editor for 36 pages once. Guess how that went? Moving along ...

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2008

The number 8 symbolizes prosperity in Chinese culture, and the Opening Ceremonies in Beijing began at 8 p.m. on 8/8/2008. The Beijing News captured the unprecedented scope and spectacle of the event.

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2008

Moscow-born, Texas-raised Nastia Liukin, the daughter of two champion gymnasts, was among the American favorites heading into Beijing. Here, the Dallas Morning News team deconstructs her routine on the uneven bars. Liukin won the all-around Gold in China, joining Mary Lou Retton and Carly Patterson as the only Americans to do so.

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2008

The 29th Olympiad was the first staged in China, and brought unprecedented media attention to the country. This page from Folha de Sao Paulo in Brazil focuses on the spectacle and protests surrounding the event.

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2008

In China, all eyes were on American swimmer Michael Phelps, and he didn’t disappoint, winning an unprecedented 8 Gold medals. This section front from the Los Angeles Times marked his seventh triumph and previewed his eighth.

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2008

An all-time high of 86 nations won medals in Beijing. Want to know who won what? This dynamic chart by Douglas Okasaki of the Gulf News in Dubai, color-coded by continent, makes it easy to find out.

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2012

The London Games are sure to generate moments that will live on long after the closing ceremonies. Come to www.snd.org for coverage before and during the Games and be sure to enter your best work for consideration in the 35th edition of the Best of News Design competition.