When the International Olympic Committee met in 1978 to pick a host for the 1984 Summer Games, it had just one candidate, Los Angeles, after the only other bidder, Tehran, dropped out during the early ...

Los Angeles 1984: an influential legacy A new financial model which became a template for future editions of the Olympic Games and a turning point for women in sport are two of the key legacies of Los ...

In less than a thousand days, Los Angeles will be hosting the summer Olympics. Many cities worldwide have been put into debt ...

The people who follow and cover the Olympic Games are calling the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics a rousing success. After the pandemic Olympics of Tokyo (summer of 2021) and then Beijing (winter of 2022) ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A day after the closing ceremony of the Summer Games in Paris, Mayor Karen Bass arrived in Los Angeles Monday with the official Olympic flag as the city prepares to host the ...

To the editor: I am confident the 2028 Summer Olympics will be a boon for our city. (“Is L.A. ready for the 2028 Olympics? Some residents express concern,” March 21) I fondly recall going to the Los ...

That’s how long it had been since Edwin Moses had lost a 400-meter hurdles race entering his first day of competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics. He would have to defend that streak in front of a ...

The 1984 U.S. Olympic swim team needed less than one minute to pick up its first two gold medals. In the 100-meter freestyle – the first swimming event of the Los Angeles Games – American teammates ...

It’s been decades since Chris Robles has stood inside the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. "It looks like they added more seats because the track was bigger. It was much bigger,” Robles recalled while ...

Organizers usually strip naming rights from host venues. Los Angeles is pioneering a new business model for the 2028 Games.