Bids for the 1996 Summer Olympics for the Games (a promise that was not carried out eventually, as Athens went on to host the 2004 Summer Olympics). Coca-Cola executives, however, had feared that a successful Atlanta bid would hurt their business. While they produced commemorative pins of the six candidate cities, with the intent of handing out the winning city's pins to IOC delegates, this backfired as others alleged that Coca-Cola had predicted which city had won; indeed sales of the beverage in Greece dropped for the next few years. A year later, an article appeared in the German periodical "Der Spiegel" accusing the Atlanta Committee
Coca-Cola with Lime form with the mondegreen "You put the lime in the Coke, you nut." Coca-Cola with Lime was available in the United Kingdom in green bottles, as was other citrus flavour Coca-Cola with Lemon but in clear bottles the year before, as a limited summer edition in 2006. Coca-Cola with Lime was also available in Sweden, but is now discontinued. It was also tested in the Netherlands as limited summer edition 2005, and is now widely available in that country. Coca-Cola with Lime is also available in Singapore. The Coca-Cola with Lime beverage was also given a limited edition run in