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[2] [4] McDonald's had made their cost estimates for the promotion based on the American medal count at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, which was 94 medals, this included 34 gold medals. McDonald's promotion campaign was given an unexpected boost when the Soviet Union, along with the thirteen Eastern Bloc countries, boycotted the 1984 Los Angeles ...
It was not until the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City that an American president opened a Winter Olympics in the United States. The United States topped the medal count for the first time since 1968 , winning a record 83 gold medals and surpassing the Soviet Union 's total of 80 golds at the 1980 Summer Olympics .
The hosts, on the other hand, had 169 athletes competing and won 46 medals. The American team managed to win only 20 medals, dwarfed by the enormous Greek team. However, the United States managed to win 11 gold medals, edging out Greece, who secured 10 golds, and allowing Team USA to finish first in the gold medal tally.
American fast food chain McDonald's ran a promotion titled, "When the U.S. Wins, You Win" where customers scratched off a ticket with the name of an Olympic event on it. If the U.S. won a medal in that event, then they would be given a free menu item: a Big Mac for a gold medal, an order of french fries for a silver medal, and a Coca-Cola for a ...
When Ray Kroc acquired the rights to Dick and Mac McDonald's restaurants in 1961 for a cool $2.7 million, never in a million years did he think that it would grow to become the worldwide food ...
AP. By the late 1960s, McDonald's had ditched the two-arch design, with the golden arches appearing instead on signs. This is the era in which Ray Kroc had taken over the business and was swiftly ...
The team won the tournament's gold medal. It was the last amateur-level U.S. team to win an Olympic gold medal in men's basketball . The team was considered to be one of the strongest in the U.S.A.'s history at that time, as it featured four of the five 1984 consensus first team All-Americans , in Michael Jordan , Patrick Ewing , Wayman Tisdale ...
August 2 Gold: Joe Jacobi Scott Strausbaugh: Canoeing: Slalom C-2: August 2 Gold: Trent Dimas: Gymnastics: Horizontal bar: August 2 Gold: Mike Conley: Athletics: Men's triple jump: August 3 Gold: Hal Haenel Mark Reynolds: Sailing: Star: August 3 Gold: Quincy Watts: Athletics: Men's 400 meters: August 5 Gold: Karen Josephson Sarah Josephson ...