Coca-Cola Olympic City Coca-Cola Olympic City Coca-Cola Olympic City was an plaza in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, adjacent to the city's Centennial Olympic Park. It was built in concurrence with the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta. Managed by Orlando-based Baker Leisure Group, the featured three key areas that displayed Olympic based virtual reality sports attractions. The first area allowed patrons to play a h-o-r-s-e style game called "HOOPS" against Grant Hill. The area also allowed patrons to test their baseball skills by striking out Cecil Fielder in a pitching simulator or hitting a home run against Tom Glavine in a batting simulator. The
1996 Coca-Cola 600 1996 Coca-Cola 600 The 1996 Coca-Cola 600, the 37th running of the event, was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race held on May 26, 1996 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Charlotte, North Carolina. Contested at 400 laps on the 1.5 mile (2.4 km) speedway, it was the 11th race of the 1996 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season. Dale Jarrett of Robert Yates Racing won the race. Chuck Bown would step down from professional stock car racing after this event. On the day of the race, 0.01 inches of precipitation were recorded around the speedway. Charlotte Motor Speedway is a motorsports