140 NOCs (Nations)
6,829 athletes (1,566 women, 5,263 men)
221 events
28,742 volunteers

Los Angeles 28 July 1984 : the spectacle. The brass band " All american Marching Band ".

Official opening of the Games by: President of the United States of America Ronald Reagan

Lighting the Olympic Flame by: Rafer Johnson (decathlete)

Olympic Oath by: Edwin Moses (athletics)

Official Oath by: Sharon Weber (gymnastics)

Carl Lewis (USA-athletics) entered into the history books. He matched the achievement of fellow countryman Jesse Owens (Berlin 1936), winning four gold medals in the same events: 100m, 200m, 4x100m relay and long jump. [Full story]

The USSR responded with a revenge boycott. Among the sports which lost most of their medal contenders were weightlifting, wrestling, gymnastics, women's swimming, football, handball, modern pentathlon and women's athletics. [Full story]

Marathon for women: Fifty-six years after doctors declared that women who ran 800m would “become old too soon,” a women’s marathon was added to the Olympic programme. [Full story]