Training Centers Sharpen U S Olympic Readiness for Los Angeles
A panel of seven amateur sports experts credits the Olympic Training Centers in Colorado Springs and Lake Placid with boosting U S preparation for the 1984 Games. The centers provide free use of facilities, room, board, and sports medicine, funded by grants, sponsorships, and private gifts.
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Dave Lewandowski
C-T
U.S
Los Angeles
Colorado Springs
Colo
Lake Placid
N.Y
Larry McCollum
Paul Maruyama
Maruyama
Vonnie Gros
Vancouver
First Americans in the 1896 Olympic Team
The first American Olympic team in 1896 included Princeton and Boston Athletic Club athletes led by Albert Taylor and Ellery Clark. Support came from Princeton professor William Milligan Sloane and former Massachusetts governor Oliver Ames, while James Connolly paid his own way to Athens and back.
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Athens
Greece
Princeton University
Boston Athletic Association
Suffolk Athletic Club
Boston
Albert Taylor
Francis Lane
Herbert Jameson
Robert Garrett
Princeton
Bill Hoyt
Arthur Blake
Tom Burke
Tom Curtis
Ellery Clark
James B. Connolly
William Milligan Sloane
Boston Athletic Club
Massachusetts
Oliver Ames
Connolly
Harvard
United States
Mary Lou Retton poised to lead U S gymnastics bid
The 16 year old Mary Lou Retton dominates the U S Olympic Trials at Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum finishing atop 25 competitors. Her strength based style and coach Bela Karolyi position her as America’s strongest gymnastic medal hope, with podium chances in vault and floor as the boycott reshapes Olympic expectations.
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Mary Low Retton
America
Olga Korbut
Nadia Comaneci
Mary Lou
Comaneci
Korbut
Los Angeles
Michael Jackson
Retton
U.S
Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum
UCLA
Peter Vidmar
Bela Karolyi
Houston
Karolyi
McNamara
Peters
ABC Brings Record TV Coverage to XXIII Olympics
Howie, Jim and the crew lead record hours of television coverage for the Los Angeles Games. ABC paid 225 million for rights, plans 180 hours of prime time, with 100 million more to produce and about 100 million in anticipated profits from advertising. Major anchors include Jim McKay, Frank Gifford, Kathleen Sullivan, Jim Lampley, and Donna de Varona, with Howard Cosell assigned to boxing.
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Howie
Jim
New York
Jeff Ruhe
Mark Breland
Greg Louganis
Mary Decker
Carl Lewis
ABC
Rude
Los Angeles
Ruhe
Jim McKay
Frank Gifford
Kathleen Sullivan
Jim Lampley
Donna deVarona
Howard Cosell
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John Matthews
Kenneth Clarke
Rick McKinney
McKinney
Tom Bynum
North Carolina A&t University
McCollum
Dwight Stones
Joseph Ellis
Sloane
Dave Lewandowsel
Michelle Dusserre
Pam Bileck
Lucy Wener
Tracee Talavera
Marie Roethlisberger
Kathy Johnson
Abie Grossfeld
Don Peters
Soviet Union
Natalia Yurchenko
Olga Mostepanova
Bulgaria
Boriana Stoyanova
East Germany
Maxi Gnauck
Moscow
Johnson
Satunday
Sarajevo
ABC Sports
Iny
Deby
Semday
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