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Jul 2024
45m 27s

How the 1984 Olympics saved the Games

THE WASHINGTON POST
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With only days before the Opening Ceremonies kick off the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, we go back to 1984 – when the Games faced international ruin and were reinvented in Los Angeles. 
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