Athletes from 140 nations competed at the Los Angeles Games. The following countries made their first Olympic appearance in 1984: Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, British Virgin Islands, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Grenada, Mauritania, Mauritius, North Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Rwanda, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, and the United Arab Emirates. The People's Republic of China made their first appearance in a Summer Olympics since 1952, while for the first time the Republic of China team participated as Chinese Taipei.

the are more countries won mor medals for example united states won 56 medal en total and germany sweden or rumania win more medal that throughout its history

- Mexican Athletics scored a historic success to achieve victory inthe two walking tests, thanks to Ernesto Canto (gold in 20 km)and Raul Gonzalez (gold in 50 km) and silver in 20 km
- Carl Lewis of the United States team in Olympic history comes tomatch the success of Jesse Owens getting in Berlin in 1936, winning four gold medals in the same events: the 100 m, 200 m,the 4x100 relay my long jump .
- In the 400 m hurdles, leading the race from start to finish, 

 becomes the first woman from an Islamic countryand the first Moroccan to win a gold medal.
- During his third Olympic Games United Kingdom DaleyThompson, faces West Germany Jürgen hings in the decathlon.After flat in the first seven events, Thompson takes a decisive advantage in the pole vault and javelin winning their secondconsecutive gold medal.
- In swimming In the women the best was Mary T. Meagher, who won three gold medals (100 and 200 m butterfly, 4x100 relay styles).
- In the men's artistic gymnastics individual champion was Japan's Koji Gushiken, who beat Peter Vidmar U.S. and Chinese Li Ning.The United States won by teams.
- U.S. Basketball headed by Michael Jordan and Pat Ewing had no trouble winning the gold. In the final they defeated Spain, who made a remarkable championship and took the silver. Bronzewas Yugoslavia.
- In Volleyball surprises occurred since China and the U.S. weregradually overcoming the traditional powers of the sport, helpedby the absence of Soviet teams to win the gold medal in the women's tournament and male, respectively

The 1984 Olympics were held in Los Angeles, USA, between 28July and 12 August. Participants 6797 athletes (5230 men and 1,567 women) from 140 countries competing in 21 sports and 221 specialties.
Although a total of only 14 states abstained, was notably absent from countries that used to be at the top of the medal, as the Soviet Union itself, East Germany and Bulgaria. In fact, in the1976 Montreal Olympics starred countries now boycott had won58% of the total gold medals [1]. Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, Romania won the most Olympic medals in its history.

After the news received from the loss of money from the 1976Montreal Olympic Games in Canada, no city was presented to host the 1984 Games

This was seen as a threat to the future of the Olympic Games. It was initially thought New York and then Chicago, and finally opted for Los Angeles. The city of Los Angeles who had submitted thebid to host the Games in 1980 and in 1978 renewed its bid for 1984 along with the American committee, made a plan that madethe Olympics make money. It was the first city to make a profit in the Olympics and be a model for subsequent towns. The way toMontreal would be against. Los Angeles used its halls and stadiums that already existed, and used company funds to organize the Olympics as well as to build only two new centers,one for cyclists and a new Olympic pool. The city made ​​a profit of200 million dollars ($ 370.19 in 2005). In response to the U.S. boycott the 1980 Olympics, which took place in Moscow, the Eastern Bloc countries, except Romania,along with 8 other socialist allies did the same with the games in Los Angeles. The Soviet Union, promoting the boycott, arguedthat there were sufficient guarantees for their athletes and announced his decision not to attend the May 8, just over two months before the start of the Game.The host state of California was the home state of U.S. President Ronald Reagan, who officially opened the Games. He had served as Governor of California from 1967 to 1975. The official mascot of the Los Angeles Games was Sam the Olympic Eagle. The logo of the games featured five blue, white and red stars arranged horizontally and struck through with alternating streaks; it was named "Stars in Motion."

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