Behind the success of the 1984 Summer Olympics
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.ค. 2014
- Geoff Foster, sports editor for the Wall Street Jounal, joins "CBS This Morning: Saturday" to discuss the exceptionally memorable and exciting 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles 2028!!!!!!!!!!! 🎉 And we're about to show the world once more what a successful Olympics looks like
Agreed. Can't wait for that event here in Poland. 🇵🇱🇺🇸✌️😎
They also thought about after the games are over.The swim center was built at USC, so of course USC continued use it.The velodrome was built at Cal State Dominguez Hills, so the university continued to use it. Athletes didn't stay in one place. They were spread out. The athletes' living quarters were at local colleges/universities, which were later repurposed as student dormitories.
London 2012 Olympics also were very successful even after the games.
How did the fail to mention the leadership of Peter Uberroth? He did a fantastic job of organizing the games for LA!
He really was the Messiah of the Olympic movement.
The Olympics were on death row awaiting their death.
@@J_131 Samaranch, the former President of IOC saved it when he became President in 1970s and introduced commercial sponsorship in it.
First color TV games? Wasn’t that like in the 60’s?
I was a driver volunteer at the L.A. 84 games one of the most well attended, profitable and successful games in the history of the Olympics. The first Olympics to rely heavily on non-paid volunteers, already built and refurbished sports venues. Two Olympic villages at USC and UCLA using existing dorms for the athletes. The 2028 games should be even better with the number of world class facilities built in So.Cal since then.
The '28 games will be epic, I' m sure about it. Can't wait to watch them here in Poland on a large TV screen.
Sportswise -- very boooooring games. Basically US athletes and some others. OK, China made its debut too.
@@jeshkam 28 games will be very nervous, stressful, postcovid games. Everybody will blame everybody for everything.
The atmosphere in US is so toxic and disastrous already now, I don't wanna know whats gonna happen in the close future.
Minus the fact half the competition didn't show up
We now know the former Soviet Union and other former communist countries had extensive drugs programmes for their athletes so by not turning up the Los Angeles Games in 1984 were much cleaner than they would have been. So most of the medals were won fairly (though I am sure not all) and therefore most of the medal winners deserved their success, and rightly got their award.
Had the Soviet bloc turned up and had competed not using drugs, they would not have won many, if not most of the medals they would have taken by the use of drugs.
Therefore the Soviet bloc was not missed and their absence made the 1984 Games fairer.
Los Angeles 2028, look out world!
For an Olympics to actually make profit and not lose money is amazing.
" 1976 Olympics Soviets had 120 gold medals and East Germany had 90 gold medals." Actual tally: USSR 49, East Germany 40. A crazy exaggeration by the CBS correspondent.
As a 13-year-old girl back in 1984, I was extremely excited about the Summer Olympics.
I'm very like this moment in 1984th years.
We got it by default in 84 and again in 2028 that's funny
Hopefully we again are able to build on and grow the success.
Also 1932
The story of every time LA gets the Olympics: The IOC needs money.
I heard the 84 games were originally awarded to Tehran but withdrew shortly after getting them due to political turmoil. LA was awarded them on the basis they were the only other ones that bid for them.
Edwin Moses was born nineteen years after the 1936 Olympics. He won a total of two gold medals in his Olympic career: a gold in the 400m hurdles in 1976, and another gold in the same event in 1984. He probably would have won gold in 1980 as well, but he was not allowed to compete because of Jimmy Carter's boycott.
Meant Jesse Owens, pretty jarring "verbal typo" but reporter likely isn't a track fan and just crammed information for this bit. At least Carl Lewis was mentioned after leading off with Mary Lou
Los Angeles 2024 Summer Olympics!
Kyle Chang, I have good news and bad news:
Los Angles lost the bid for 2024 Olympics against Paris but Los Angeles is going to host the 2028 Summer Olympics.
@@joeyjerry2981 28 will be stressful one
3:21 Er, that would be Jesse Owens.
3:23, carl lewis matched
jesse owens, not edwin moses.
Los Angeles 1932 1984 2028 olympic 🇺🇸
mary lou retton stole her medal with the help of the referees. and there was never a USA - USSR competition in gymnastics, because USA was never a force in that sport. there was romania, USSR, china - i'm speaking about feminine gymnastics. in '84, after 4 gold medals won by romania, the referees gave one to the USA, literally robbing romania's kathy szabo in the individual competition. romania was the only country in the eastern block who participated in '84 olympics, and they did it extremely well.
stop being a sore loser
Los Angeles 1984 Games didn't have all the host countries!
Edwin Moses in 1936?
canada vs. America
Lol where is the ufo?
Los Angeles is not 300 square miles. New York is.
right now LA is over 400 so it was probably less back then
Hyper inflation in effect. The guest states the Montreal Olympics loses almost one billion dollars. A couple of minutes later the figure jumps yo 1.5 billion dollars!!!!!