11/07/2013
Since the cycling road race was reintroduced into the Olympic Games at Berlin in 1936, the event had been dominated by Europe. The huge popularity and participation rates in cycling on the Continent, ...
11/08/1984
Morocco’s Said Aouita was a key pillar in the Golden Age of middle and long distance running in the 1980s. With Steve Ovett and Seb Coe in the twilight of their running careers, Aouita was the first o...
New Zealander Neroli Fairhall embodied more than anyone Pierre de Coubertin’s famed adage that winning wasn’t necessarily what the Olympic ideal was about. Fairhill was a promising young athlete when ...
Sebastian Coe’s victory in the 1,500m at the 1980 Games in Moscow was one of the most tumultuous moments in the history of the Olympics. Devastated at the loss in his favoured 800m days earlier by arc...
The summer of 1984 proved to be a golden one for the France and its footballers. The summer of 1984 proved to be a golden one for the France and its footballers. Led by the inspirational Michel Plati...
10/08/1984
The inaugural running of the women’s 3,000m at the Olympic Games in 1984 proved in many ways a tragedy for all three of its main protagonists, and arguably became the most memorable race of the modern...
When Ulrike Meyfarth delighted her home fans with victory in the women’s high jump in the Olympic Games of 1972 in Munich, she entered the record books as the youngest ever winner of a track and field...
09/08/1984
Daley Thompson was the kind of sportsman who delighted his fans and infuriated his critics in equal measure. A supremely gifted, and outspoken, athlete who turned decathlete after initially targeting ...
08/08/1984
Glittering sporting careers can often be kick-started by a meteoric performance at the Olympic Games, and New Zealand sailor Russell Coutts is a prime example. When Coutts arrived as an inexperienced ...
Few people have demonstrated the adage that sport can transcend a range of cultural boundaries quite like Moroccan hurdler Nawal El Moutawakel. Women had never competed in the 400m hurdles at the Olym...
Running shoe worn by Carl Lewis at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles ©IOC / Nike collection
Carl Lewis finishing first in the 200m ©IOC
Carl Lewis carrying an American flag during his victory lap after winning the 100m ©Getty Tony Duffy
General view of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum during the Opening Ceremony ©Getty Steve Powell
Rafer Johnson gets ready to light the Olympic cauldron at the Opening Ceremony of the 1984 Games in Los Angeles ©Getty Steve Powell
The US decathlete and final bearer of the flame, Rafer Johnson, enters the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum ©IOC Avelino Pi
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