It was at Seoul in 1988 that Anthony Nesty made history when he became the first black swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal, so it was fitting that on the 35th anniversary of that ground-breaking performance it should be announced that he would be the head coach for the United States men’s squad at Paris 2024.

Thirty-five years ago today the cauldron in the Olympic Stadium in Seoul was set alight to mark the opening of the second summer Games to be held in Asia.

The death of Russian Olympic fencing gold medallist Anvar Kamilevich Ibragimov has been announced at the age of 57.

Last week's promise extended by International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach to allow Ukrainian fencer Olha Kharlan to compete at Paris 2024 even if she does not qualify was largely praised around the world.

Jimmy Kim, United States taekwondo practitioner who won gold when the sport made its Olympic debut as a demonstration sport at Seoul 1988, has died at the age of 56.

Soviet Union gymnast Yuri Korolev, winner of nine gold medals at the World Championships, but who was denied an opportunity to compete at the Olympics by boycotts and injury, has died at the age of 60.

The 1988 Olympic 100 metres final in Seoul is probably the most controversial race ever run. 

Seoul 1988 Olympic bronze medallist Wolfgang Staudinger has been appointed as South Korea's luge head coach, after 15 years holding the same post with the Canadian Luge Association.

Double Olympic hammer throw bronze medallist Jüri Tamm has died in Estonia at the age of 64, it has been announced.

It was 4.30am when the phone rang in my room at the media village in Seoul on September 27, 1988. "Get your backside down to the press centre, there’s a massive story breaking," urged my good friend John  Goodbody, of The Times. "Ben Johnson’s been done for doping!”

A special ceremony has been held in Seoul to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Opening Ceremony of the 1988 Olympic Games.

To walk through the entrance to Seoul’s Olympic Stadium complex today is to be taken back 30 years in time.

Sergey Litvinov, winner of the Olympic gold medal in the hammer throw at Seoul 1988 when representing the Soviet Union, has died at the age of the 60, the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) hav announced.

And lo, suddenly the insidethegames newsfeed was full of stuff about the two Koreas.

Bulgarian weightlifter Angel Genchev was winner of the Olympic gold medal in the lightweight division at Seoul 1988 before he tested positive for a banned diuretic and stripped of the title, In 1992 he was sent to prison for two years after being convicted of rape. But he was released early so he could represent his country at the World Championships in 1994, where he won a bronze medal.  He was sent to prison again in 2001 after he shot at a taxi driver.