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. With only days ...

Driving past a San Fernando Valley middle school during lunchtime, the sports fields were buzzing with activity. Soccer balls were being kicked, basketballs were being dribbled, tetherballs were being ...

Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles current and former leadership give the scoop on the state of 1984 Olympics murals.

It’s been decades since Chris Robles has stood inside the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. "It looks like they added more seats because the track was bigger. It was much bigger,” Robles recalled while ...

For many Americans. The Olympics was *** daily routine watching athletes from around the world compete and cheering on the home team for some, there wasn't too much of *** good thing tonight. They're ...

That’s how long it had been since Edwin Moses had lost a 400-meter hurdles race entering his first day of competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics. He would have to defend that streak in front of a ...

To the editor: I am confident the 2028 Summer Olympics will be a boon for our city. (“Is L.A. ready for the 2028 Olympics? Some residents express concern,” March 21) I fondly recall going to the Los ...

Since the inception of the modern Olympic Games in 1896, men have competed in the marathon and cycling road race, but women wouldn’t get that opportunity for another 88 years. “It was thought that if ...

Former American gymnast Michelle Dusserre Farrell will never forget the moment her idol Nadia Comăneci scored the Olympics’ first perfect 10.0 in 1976. Dusserre Farrell, who later competed in the 1984 ...

Mary Lou Retton, who became one of the most popular athletes in the country after winning the all-around women’s gymnastics competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, has pneumonia and is ...