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The 1988 United States men's Olympic basketball team represented the United States at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. The team's head coach was John Thompson, of Georgetown University. Team USA won the tournament's bronze medal, their lowest finish to that point in any Olympic basketball tournament. [2]
A NOC could enter one men's team with 12 players. Automatic qualifications were granted to the host country and the winners from the previous edition. The remaining teams were decided by the continental championships in Asia, Oceania, Africa and Americas and European qualifying tournament.
Callie Rogers was just 16 years old when she won £1.9 million in the U.K.'s lottery (about $3 million) in 2003 — too young to know how to manage her money or where it would lead her, according ...
The men's 100 meter sprint was marred by the usage of performance-enhancing drugs when the initial winner, Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson, tested positive for banned substances after the race and was stripped of the gold medal and his world record time of 9.79 seconds, thus allowing Carl Lewis to repeat as gold medal winner. In 1989, Johnson ...
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William “Bud” Post was broke when he died in 2006, despite winning $16.2 million in the Pennsylvania Lottery in 1988. It didn’t last long. Just one year after he hit it big, Post was $1 ...
CHF 64.6 million (US$72.8 million) was the largest winner in Switzerland's Swiss Lotto, won on 2 March 2024. [81] £35.1 million (US$49.6 million) was the largest winner on the UK Lotto game in April 2016. €38.4 million (US$49.7 million) was the largest jackpot in the Netherlands draw of the Staatsloterij (State Lottery) in May 2013.
The Mega Millions lottery jackpot was an estimated $453 million with a cash option of $208.7 million for Friday night's drawing, according to the Mega Millions website.