Los Angeles 1984 Olympics

Joan benoit won the inaugural women’s marathon and Connie carpenter phinney was the first women who won cycling road race. Carl Lewis holds medal for sprints and long jump and won fourth gold in 4 x 100m relay. In single sculls rowing, pertti karppinen won for third time. In men’s 1500m, the winner was Sebastian Coe and in paraplegic athlete, the winner was Archer Neroli Fairhall who competed in wheelchair.

The Los Angeles Olympics started grandly with exciting shows, dances and ceremonies. Almost, people from different nations came to watch the game and they were enjoying like anything. In Los Angeles, the Olympics was started on 28 july 1984 with 221 events and 9190 media also joined their hands to telecast the shows, games to the people all over the world. Hardly 6829 athletes from 140 nations participated out of that 1,566 were women and 5,263 were men with 28,742 volunteers and 9,190 media.

The official opening was done by president of United States of America Ronald Reagon and the lighting of flame by Rafer Johnson and Olympic oath by Edwin Moses and official oath by Sharon Weber.