1984 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE & OLYMPICS TICKET

YOU ARE BIDDING ON AN AUTHENTIC 1984 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE.  SPECIAL PREVIEW: THE 1984 OLYMPICS.  533 PAGES.  CONTENTS LIKE:  A MAN WREATHED IN GLORY, WHO ARE THESE GUYS?, CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD, NO ONE DOES IT BETTER, THE ULTIMATE WINNER
 AND MUCH MORE.  IT HAS SOME WEIGHT TO IT.

THE TICKET IS A CYCLING TICKET FROM THE CSU DOMINGUEZ HILLS FOR THE 1984 OLYMPICS IN LOS ANGELES. 

The 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Los Angeles, California, United States in 1984. Los Angeles was selected as the host of the Games on May 18, 1978 on the 80th IOC session at Athens, Greece, without a vote, because it was the only city that submitted a bid to host the 1984 Summer Olympics. The only other interested city, Tehran, declined to bid. Many blamed this on the massive cost overruns of the 1976 Games, staged in Montreal.

In response to the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, 14 Eastern Bloc countries and allies including the Soviet Union, Cuba and East Germany (but not Romania) boycotted the Games. For differing reasons, Iran and Libya also boycotted. The USSR announced its intention not to participate on May 8, 1984, citing security concerns and "chauvinistic sentiments and an anti-Soviet hysteria being whipped up in the United States"^[2]. The Los Angeles boycott influenced a large number of events that were normally dominated by the absent countries. Boycotting countries organized a rival event in July-August 1984, called the Friendship Games.

The host state of California was the home state of U.S. President Ronald Reagan, who officially opened the Games. He had served as governor of the state from 1967 to 1975. The official mascot of the Los Angeles Games was Sam the Olympic Eagle.

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