RTÉ - The Olympic Years

The Olympic Years Podcast: 1976 Montreal

Games marked by a mass walkout and a final bill that the city could not afford

The Olympic Years Podcast: 1988 Seoul

159 countries sent more athletes totalling 9,465 to South Korea more than to any previous Olympics.

The Olympic Years Podcast: 2000 Sydney

Sydney 2000 has been hailed by many Olympic experts as the greatest Games of all time.

The Olympic Years Podcast: 1996 Atlanta

The most logistically complicated Olympics to date and perhaps the most hyped and over-commercialized as well.

The Olympic Years Podcast: 1980 Moscow

Four years after 32 nations walked out of the Montreal Games, twice that many chose to stay away from Moscow