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About the 1984 Summer Olympics:

The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and commonly known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States. It marked the second time that Los Angeles had hosted the Games, the first being in 1932. California was the home state of the incumbent U.S. President Ronald Reagan, who officially opened the Games. These were the first Summer Olympic Games under the IOC presidency of Juan Antonio Samaranch.

The 1984 Games were boycotted by a total of fourteen Eastern Bloc countries, including the Soviet Union and East Germany, in response to the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russia, in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; Romania was the only Soviet Bloc state that opted to attend the Games. Albania, Iran and Libya also chose to boycott the Games for unrelated reasons.

Despite the field being depleted in certain sports due to the boycott, 140 National Olympic Committees took part in the 1984 Games, a record number at the time. The United States won the most gold and overall medals, followed by Romania and West Germany.

The 1984 Summer Olympics are widely considered to be the most financially successful modern Olympics, 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, the 1984 Games generated a profit of over US$250 million.

On July 18, 2009, a 25th anniversary celebration of the 1984 Games was held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The celebration included a speech by former Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee president Peter Ueberroth, as well as a re-enactment of the lighting of the Olympic cauldron.

(Los Angeles will host the Summer Olympics for the third time in 2028.)

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Venues in the city of Los Angeles:

Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum – opening/closing ceremonies, athletics

Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena – boxing

Dodger Stadium – baseball

Pauley Pavilion, University of California, Los Angeles – gymnastics

Eagle's Nest Arena, California State University, Los Angeles – judo

Olympic Swim Stadium, University of Southern California – swimming, diving, synchronized swimming

Olympic Village (athlete housing), University of Southern California

Los Angeles Tennis Center, University of California, Los Angeles – tennis

Athletes Village, University of California, Los Angeles

Albert Gersten Pavilion, Loyola Marymount University, Westchester, California – weightlifting

Streets of Los Angeles – athletics (marathon)

Venues in Southern California:

El Dorado Park, Long Beach, California – archery

The Forum, Inglewood, California – basketball and team handball finals

Lake Casitas, Ventura County, California – canoeing, rowing

Olympic Velodrome, California State University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, California – cycling (track)

Mission Viejo, Orange County, California – cycling (individual road race)

Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, California – equestrian

Fairbanks Ranch Country Club, Rancho Santa Fe, California, California – equestrian sports (eventing endurance)

Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, California – fencing

Rose Bowl, Pasadena, California – football (final)

Titan Gymnasium, California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, California – handball

Weingart Stadium, East Los Angeles College, Monterey Park, California – field hockey

Coto de Caza, Orange County, California – modern pentathlon (fencing, riding, running, shooting)

Olympic Shooting Range, Prado Recreational Area, Chino, California – shooting

Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, California – volleyball

Raleigh Runnels Memorial Pool, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California – water polo

Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California – wrestling

Long Beach Shoreline Marina, Long Beach, California – sailing

Artesia Freeway – cycling (road team time trial)

Heritage Park Aquatic Center, Irvine, California – modern pentathlon (swimming)

Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, California – athletics (marathon start)

Santa Monica, California – athletics (marathon)

Other venues:

Harvard Stadium, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts – football preliminaries

Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland – football preliminaries

Stanford Stadium, Stanford University, Stanford, California – football preliminaries

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Medals awarded: The 1984 Summer Olympic program featured 221 events in the following 21 sports:

Aquatics

Diving (4)

Swimming (29)

Synchronized swimming (2)

Water polo (1)

Archery (2)

Athletics (41)

Basketball (2)

Boxing (12)

Canoeing (12)

Cycling:

Road (3)

Track (5)

Equestrian:

Dressage (2)

Eventing (2)

Show jumping (2)

Fencing (8)

Field hockey (2)

Football (1)

Gymnastics:

Artistic (14)

Rhythmic (1)

Handball (2)

Judo (8)

Modern pentathlon (2)

Rowing (14)

Sailing (7)

Shooting (11)

Volleyball (2)

Weightlifting (10)

Wrestling:

Freestyle (10)

Greco-Roman (10)

Demonstration sports

Baseball

Tennis

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Sam the Olympic Eagle was the mascot of the 1984 Summer Olympics which were held in Los Angeles. He is a bald eagle, the national bird of the host nation, the United States. Intended as a patriotic symbol, being named Sam also suggests a kinship with Uncle Sam, another American symbol. The mascot was designed by Bob Moore, an artist for Disney.

Guests of Disneyland, as well as those reading documentation about mascot designs for the Olympics, often confuse the mascot for another Disney mascot named Eagle Sam, host of the former Disneyland attraction America Sings, and designed by animator Marc Davis in c. 1973. He shares the name of Sam the Eagle from The Muppet Show, but the design is vastly different. He is still known as Eagle Sam in Japan, where an animated series of the same name ran during 1983, the year preceding the Summer Olympics. Even after the conclusion of the Games, Sam the Eagle is still used to promote a track and field event, the Mt. SAC Relays at Mt. San Antonio College, specifically its "LA84 Youth Days" promotion for youth interested in athletics, run by a charitable group founded during the Olympics.

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