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Lake Lanier Olympic Park to mark 30 years since 1996 Games with fireworks, global feast

DeAnne Hemmens, a member of U.S. Canoe and Kayak Team, holds the Olympic torch July 15, 1996, as her teammates paddle across the venue at what is now Lake Lanier Olympic Park. A team of rowers completed the crossing. - photo by Tom Reed

07172021 OLYMPICS 14.jpg — DeAnne Hemmens, a member of U.S. Canoe and Kayak Team, holds the Olympic torch July 15, 1996, as her teammates paddle across the venue at what is now Lake Lanier Olympic Park. A team of rowers completed the crossing. - photo by Tom Reed

For a few weeks in July 1996, the world came to Lake Lanier.