Ecuador competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States, winning its first Olympic medal when Jefferson Pérez won the gold medal in the men's 20 km walk.
Famous quotes containing the word summer:
“They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead,
That all of thee we loved and cherished
Has with thy summer roses perished;
And left, as its young beauty fled,
An ashen memory in its stead.”
—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)