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The Los Angeles and Montreal Games are seen as examples of best and worst practice when organizing the Olympics and serve as valuable lessons to prospective host cities. Following the success of the 1984 Games, the Los Angeles OCOG, led by Peter Ueberroth , used the profits to create the LA84 Foundation for promoting youth sports in Southern ...
Los Angeles Olympics may refer to three different Olympic Games held or to be held in Los Angeles: 1932 Summer Olympics , Games of the X Olympiad 1984 Summer Olympics , Games of the XXIII Olympiad
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The boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles followed four years after the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. The boycott involved nineteen countries: fifteen from the Eastern Bloc led by the Soviet Union, which initiated the boycott on May 8, 1984, and four other countries which boycotted on their own initiatives.
The selection of the host city for the 1932 Summer Olympics was made at the 23rd IOC Session in Rome, Italy, on April 9, 1923.Remarkably, the selection process consisted of a single bid, from Los Angeles’ Olympic Committee led by Billy May Garland, and as there were no bids from any other city, Los Angeles was selected by default to host the 1932 Games.
This will be the third time Los Angeles has hosted the Olympics, as they had them in 1932 and 1984. The only other three-time hosts are Paris (1900, 1924 and 2024) and London (1908, 1948 and 2012)
Bidding for the 2024 Summer Olympics became a two-city race between Paris and Los Angeles, so the IOC took the unusual step of simultaneously awarding both the 2024 Games to Paris and the 2028 Games to Los Angeles. Both of the bids were praised for high technical plans and innovative ways to use a record-breaking number of existing and ...