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Historic moments of the Olympic Games -- Barcelona 1992

1992 Barcelona Olympics -- Japan's Kyoko Iwasaki competes to win the gold medal in the women's 200-meter breaststroke. Aged 14 years and 6 days, she became the youngest swimmer to win a gold medal in Olympic history. =Click/tap photo for more images.

With the start of the Tokyo Olympics approaching on July 23, The Mainichi has dug into the Mainichi Shimbun photo archive for a look back at the historic moments of previous games. We've prepared a photo special for each of the Summer Olympic Games held since Tokyo 1964 -- the first in Asia -- up until Rio de Janeiro 2016.

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