In pictures: Previous Olympic Summer Games (22)

　　25th Olympic Summer Games,1992,Barcelona, Spain

For the first time since 1972, the Games were boycott-free, due to important global political changes. Apartheid had been abolished in South Africa. Then there was the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of West and East Germany. Communism had ended and the Soviet Union was divided into 15 separate countries which participated as a "unified team”.