Olympic Summer Games (video game) Olympic Summer Games (video game) Olympic Summer Games is an official video game of the Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games. It is the successor to "Olympic Gold" and "Winter Olympics". It was the last "Olympic" video game released for the fourth generation of consoles, as well as the Game Boy. It follows the already common button mashing techniques of previous (and future) games, with the usual exceptions. It has 10 events (three more than "Olympic Gold"), with all but two based on track and field events. Unlike "Winter Olympics", there are no major differences between each event on different platforms. The
Olympic Games that countries be barred if they prevented women from competing. Shortly thereafter, the Qatar Olympic Committee announced that it "hoped to send up to four female athletes in shooting and fencing" to the 2012 Summer Games in London. In 2008, Ali Al-Ahmed, director of the Institute for Gulf Affairs, likewise called for Saudi Arabia to be barred from the Games, describing its ban on women athletes as a violation of the International Olympic Committee charter. He noted: "For the last 15 years, many international nongovernmental organisations worldwide have been trying to lobby the IOC for better enforcement of its own