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The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee President Peter V. Ueberroth speaks during an event Monday to honor his work at the Coliseum. He was presented with a plaque in the Coliseum's ...
President Ronald Reagan and Retton with the U.S. Olympic Team in Los Angeles, 1984. Retton was an outspoken supporter of the Reagan administration and appeared in a variety of television ads supporting Ronald Reagan as well as appearing at a rally for his reelection campaign just a month after the Olympics in her home state of West Virginia.
At the 1984 Summer Olympics, two different gymnastics disciplines were contested. In addition to the fourteen artistic gymnastics events contested, for the first time at the Olympics, a rhythmic gymnastics event was contested–the women's individual all-around.
The 1984 Summer Olympics are widely considered to be the most financially successful modern Olympics, [5] serving as an example on how to run an Olympic Games. As a result of low construction costs, due to the use of existing sport infrastructure, coupled with a reliance on private corporate funding, [ 6 ] the 1984 Games generated a profit of ...
Ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics, look back at U.S. gymnastics history, including moments from Simone Biles, Mary Lou Retton, ... The 1984 Olympic Games were held in Los Angeles, putting Team USA ...
In 1984, Retton became the first U.S. woman to win the Olympic all-around title. Bela Karolyi was right alongside her, celebrating wildly and wrapping her in one of his trademark bear hugs.
The United States was the host nation of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. It was the nineteenth time that Team USA participated, having boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics. 522 competitors, 339 men and 183 women, took part in 217 events in 25 sports. [1]
This is a list of the gymnasts who represented their country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles from 28 July to 12 August 1984. Gymnasts across two disciplines ( artistic gymnastics [ 1 ] and rhythmic gymnastics [ 2 ] ) participated in the Games.