Los Angeles Times 1984 Olympic Sports Pages
Author : Robert Morton
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 16,75 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
Author : Robert Morton
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 16,75 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 39,28 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN :
Thirty-two articles introduce an Olympic event describing its rules, judging, and identifying likely contenders for medals in 1984.
Author : Barry Siegel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 19,11 MB
Release : 2020-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0520379713
How one man brought the Olympics to Los Angeles, fueling the city's urban transformation. Dreamers and Schemers chronicles how Los Angeles’s pursuit and staging of the 1932 Olympic Games during the depths of the Great Depression helped fuel the city’s transformation from a seedy frontier village to a world-famous metropolis. Leading that pursuit was the “Prince of Realtors,” William May (Billy) Garland, a prominent figure in early Los Angeles. In important respects, the story of Billy Garland is the story of Los Angeles. After arriving in Southern California in 1890, he and his allies drove much of the city’s historic expansion in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Then, from 1920 to 1932, he directed the city’s bid for the 1932 Olympic Games. Garland’s quest to host the Olympics provides an unusually revealing window onto a particular time, place, and way of life. Reconstructing the narrative from Garland’s visionary notion to its consequential aftermath, Barry Siegel shows how one man’s grit and imagination made California history.
Author : Matthew Llewellyn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,55 MB
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1317502450
The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games stand as the most profitable and arguably the most important event in the history of the modern Olympic movement. Fresh off the back of the financially disastrous Montreal Games of 1976 and the politically controversial Moscow Games of 1980, the Olympic movement returned to the United States for the sixth time in an attempt to salvage the economic viability and global prestige of the Olympics. The Los Angeles Olympics proved to be both provocative and polarizing. On the one hand they have been heralded as an overwhelming, transformative success, ushering the Olympic movement into the modern commercial age. On the other hand, critics have repudiated the Games as a manifestation of commercial excess and a platform for western political and cultural propaganda. In conjunction with the 30th anniversary of the Los Angeles Olympics, this volume examines their legacy. With an international collection of contributing scholars, this volume will span a range of global legacies, including the increasing commercialization of the Games, the changing participation of women, the Communist boycott movement, nationalism and sporting identity, and the modernization and California-cation of the Games. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
Author : L. Jon Wertheim
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 17,28 MB
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 1328637247
A rollicking guided tour of one extraordinary summer, when some of the most pivotal and freakishly coincidental stories all collided and changed the way we think about modern sports The summer of 1984 was a watershed moment in the birth of modern sports when the nation watched Michael Jordan grow from college basketball player to professional athlete and star. That summer also saw ESPN's rise to media dominance as the country's premier sports network and the first modern, commercialized, profitable Olympics. Magic Johnson and Larry Bird's rivalry raged, Martina Navratilova and John McEnroe reigned in tennis, and Hulk Hogan and Vince McMahon made pro wrestling a business, while Donald Trump pierced the national consciousness as a pro football team owner. It was an awakening in the sports world, a moment when sports began to morph into the market-savvy, sensationalized, moneyed, controversial, and wildly popular arena we know today. In the tradition of Bill Bryson's One Summer: America, 1927, L. Jon Wertheim captures these 90 seminal days against the backdrop of the nostalgia-soaked 1980s, to show that this was the year we collectively traded in our ratty Converses for a pair of sleek, heavily branded, ingeniously marketed Nikes. This was the year that sports went big-time.
Author : Eva Kassens Noor
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 39,74 MB
Release : 2020-01-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030385531
This open access book describes the three planning approaches and legacy impacts for the Olympic Games in one locale: the city of Los Angeles, USA. The author critically compares the similarities and differences of the LA Olympics by reviewing the 1932 and 1984 Olympics and by analyzing the concurrent planning process for the 2028 Olympics. The author unravels the conditions that make (or do not make) LA28’s argument “we have staged the Games before, we can do it again” compelling. Setting the bid’s promises into the contemporary local and global mega-event contexts, the author analyzes why LA won the bids, how those wins allowed LA to negotiate concessions with the IOC and NOC, and how legacies were planned, executed, and ultimately evolved. The author concludes with a prediction which 2028 legacy promises might and might not be fulfilled given the local and international Olympic contexts.
Author : Summer Olympic Games Organizing Committee
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 MB
Release : 1982
Category :
ISBN :
This quarterly magazine, published by the Organising Committee for the Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games, contains information on the preparation of the Games, such as: the Olympic sports, the Olympic sites, interviews of people involved, the city of Los Angeles, the torch relay, etc.
Author : Matthew Llewellyn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 48,94 MB
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1317502469
The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games stand as the most profitable and arguably the most important event in the history of the modern Olympic movement. Fresh off the back of the financially disastrous Montreal Games of 1976 and the politically controversial Moscow Games of 1980, the Olympic movement returned to the United States for the sixth time in an attempt to salvage the economic viability and global prestige of the Olympics. The Los Angeles Olympics proved to be both provocative and polarizing. On the one hand they have been heralded as an overwhelming, transformative success, ushering the Olympic movement into the modern commercial age. On the other hand, critics have repudiated the Games as a manifestation of commercial excess and a platform for western political and cultural propaganda. In conjunction with the 30th anniversary of the Los Angeles Olympics, this volume examines their legacy. With an international collection of contributing scholars, this volume will span a range of global legacies, including the increasing commercialization of the Games, the changing participation of women, the Communist boycott movement, nationalism and sporting identity, and the modernization and California-cation of the Games. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
Author : Bill Shirley
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 18,1 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Photography
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Publisher :
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 45,54 MB
Release : 1984
Category :
ISBN : 9780810912847