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The miracle of 1984: How Los Angeles saved the dying Olympics
When the International Olympic Committee met in 1978 to pick a host for the 1984 Summer Games, it had just one candidate, Los Angeles, after the only other bidder, Tehran, dropped out during the early days of Iran’s Islamic revolution. No one else wanted …