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An Approved History of the Olympic Games. Southern California Committee for the Olympic Games. ISBN 0-88284-243-9. Llewellyn, Matthew, John Gleaves, and Wayne Wilson. "The Historical Legacy of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games." International Journal of the History of Sport 32#1 (2015) : 1–8. Llewellyn, Matthew, John Gleaves, and Wayne ...
Five cities and regions have been chosen by the IOC to host upcoming Olympic Games: the 2026 Winter Olympics will be the first Olympic Games officially shared between two host cities (Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo); Los Angeles for the 2028 Summer Olympics; the 2030 Winter Olympics will be the first Olympic Games to be hosted by a region (the ...
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;
The Olympics are one of the world's oldest sporting events. Here's when the Games started, and how old they are ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics:
Los Angeles got the 2028 games as a consolation prize when Paris was picked for 2024. Back in 1932, LA hosted its first Olympics. The city was the only bidder for the games at a time marred by the ...
16 Days of Glory is a 1985 documentary film about the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, United States directed by Bud Greenspan. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Among the athletes it profiles are Mary Lou Retton , Edwin Moses , Carl Lewis , Greg Louganis and Michael Groß .
For the first thirteen Olympics, the stadion footrace was the only event contested, [10]: p. 145 [19] and victory in that sprint was so valued that the next Olympiad was named after the winner, e.g. "the third year of the eighteenth Olympiad when Ladas of Argos won the stadion."
We still have more than week left of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. But what's next for these beloved athletes? Here's where the 2028 games are.