A number one Games, held within Moscow in 1986, featured 182 events & attracted across 3,000 jock representing 79 countries. Globe records were placed by Sergey Bubka (pole vault), Jackie Joyner-Kersee (heptathlon), & two a men and women's 200m period racing, by West Germany's Michael Hubner and the Soviet Union's Erika Salumae, respectively. Globe records too fell at a 1990 games inside Seattle, to Mike Barrowman in the 200m breaststroke and Nadezhda Ryashkina in the 10km walk.

A 1994 Games were held around St. Petersburg, Russia, with a Soviet Union replaced by today independent republics. Russians placed Quintuplet globe records in the weightlifting section, and a games were a number 1 major international event to feature beach volleyball, which would appear at a Olympics first at a 1996 Atlanta Games. Ted Turner's previous games were within 1998 in New York City, with memorable highlights including Joyner-Kersee winning her Quaternary straight heptathlon title, & the United states 4x400m relay team setting a globe's better period.

A games were afterwards bought from either Turner by Time Warner Australia, who organised a 2001 event, prior to announcing that it would become a previous. A 2001 edition saw Australia win a virtually a lot medallion sustaining 75, however it was all however ignored per Western media & TV audiences.

Summer Goodwill Games
1986 - Moscow, USSR 1990 - Seattle, USA 1994 - St. Petersburg, Russia 1998 - New York City, USA 2001 - Brisbane, Australia

Winter Goodwill Games
2000 - Lake Placid, USA 2005 - Calgary, Canada (cancelled)