1996 Summer Olympics Basil Poledouris. Muhammad Ali lit the Olympic cauldron and later received a replacement gold medal for his boxing victory in the 1960 Summer Olympics. For the torch ceremony, more than 10,000 Olympic torches were manufactured by the American Meter Company and electroplated by Erie Plating Company. Each torch weighed about and was made primarily of aluminum, with a Georgia pecan wood handle and gold ornamentation. The 1996 Summer Olympic programme featured 271 events in 26 sports. Softball, beach volleyball and mountain biking debuted on the Olympic program, together with women's football and lightweight rowing. In women's gymnastics, Lilia Podkopayeva became
China at the Olympics Olympics first round heats. No Chinese ball-game teams entered the final four, the worst performance in Chinese Summer Olympics history. China won 26 golds and ranked 3rd at the 2016 Summer Olympics at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Sun Yang won a gold medal in men's 200 m freestyle, becoming the only Chinese male swimmer to have won gold in 2 olympic games. Gong Jinjie and Zhong Tianshi won China's first cycling gold medal in "women's team sprint". Feng Shanshan won China's first golf medal. Chinese women's volleyball team won a third gold medal after 12 years. China won medals in