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Georgia Atlants City of the state of Georgia of United States was selected to host the 1996′s Summer Olympic Games in 1990 in Tokyo, Japan against the bids of Athens, Belgrade, Manchester, Melbourne and Toronto. It was being expected that Athens will be selected for games as it was 100^th anniversary of the games but could not be selected because of lack of infrastructure. A record 197 nations took part in these games that included twenty four new countries. These new debutant countries included eleven ex-Soviet states and some South African and Asian counties. In these games USA won most of the medal and was followed by Russia and Germany.

Leander Paes In these games Anju George and Leander Paes were the Indian flag bearers respectively in the opening and closing ceremonies. India’s performance was slightly different from the last games.India’s only medal was a bronze medal won by Leander Paes in Men’s Singles Competition of Tennis. He won all his first three matches with ease by defeating Richey Reneberg (United States), Nicolas Pereira (Venezuela) and Thomas Enqvist (Sweden) respectively. In the quarter final match he defeated Italy’s Renzo Furlan with a huge margin of 6-1 and 7-5.But in the semi final he was defeated by the world famous US tennis player Andre Agassi. His fought with Brazil’s Fernando Meligeni for the bronze medal and won it after loosing the first set.

Hockey Performance of Indians in other other games was only the repetition of the previous games. Their performance in the nation game hockey was worst that the previous games and they slipped one point down as compared to the previous games’ rank. They won only two matches against US and Spain lost to Argentina and drew with Germany and Pakistan. They lost to South Korea for the 5th/8^th place and were defeated by Great Britain in the match that was played for 7th/8^th place. It was their worst ever performance. Only Lalremsanga Chhangte could advance to the next round of the archery out of three Indian who took part in the game. In athletics neither men nor women could advance the first round. All the three boxer disappointed the nation as they too could not win even their first matches. Richard Bera took part in Men’s 50 freestyle swimming but failed in the first round. Again Indians could not impress expect Leander Paes.