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1932 Summer Olympics

June 16, 2023

The 1932 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the X Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1932) were an international multi-sport event held from July 30 to August 14, 1932, in Los Angeles, California, United States. The Games were held during the worldwide Great Depression, with some nations not traveling to Los Angeles; 37 nations competed, compared to the 46 in the 1928 Games in Amsterdam,[a] and even then-U.S. President Herbert Hoover did not attend the Games.[b] The organizing committee did not report the financial details of the Games, although contemporary newspapers claimed that the Games had made a profit of US$1,000,000.[b]

Games of the X Olympiad
Emblem of the 1932 Summer Olympics
Host cityLos Angeles, United States
Nations37
Athletes1,332 (1,206 men, 126 women)
Events117 in 14 sports (20 disciplines)
OpeningJuly 30, 1932
ClosingAugust 14, 1932
Opened by
Vice President Charles Curtis[1]
StadiumLos Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Summer
Winter

Host city selection

The selection of the host city for the 1932 Summer Olympics was made at the 23rd IOC Session in Rome, Italy, on 9 April 1923. Remarkably, the selection process consisted of a single bid, from Los Angeles, and as there were no bids from any other city, Los Angeles was selected by default to host the 1932 Games.

Highlights

 
The Australian Olympic Team at the Olympic Stadium, Los Angeles, 1932
 
Lauri Lehtinen (left) and Ralph Hill finishing the 5000 m race at the 1932 Olympics
  • Charles Curtis became the first and only United States vice-president to inaugurate the Olympic Games.
  • An Olympic Village was built for the first time and became a model for future games, in Baldwin Hills, occupied by male athletes.[3][4] Female athletes were housed at the Chapman Park Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard.
  • The victory podium was used for the first time at the summer games (a podium was also used earlier in the year at the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid).[5][6][c]
  • An Olympic mascot, Scottish Terrier Smoky, was featured for the first time in history.
  • The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum was known in 1932 as Olympic Stadium.
  • Tenth Street, a major thoroughfare in Los Angeles, was renamed Olympic Boulevard in honor of the Games of the Tenth Olympiad.
  • Babe Didrikson won two gold medals in the javelin and the hurdles event. She also competed in a jump-off for a gold in the high jump. Her technique in the jump-off was ruled illegal, leaving Didrikson with second place.
  • Paavo Nurmi was suspended from competition by the IAAF for alleged violation of amateur rules. Finns charged that the Swedish officials had used devious tricks in their campaign against Nurmi's amateur status,[7] and ceased all athletic relations with Sweden.[8] A year earlier, controversies on the track and in the press had led Finland to withdraw from the Finland-Sweden athletics international.[9] After Nurmi's suspension, Finland did not agree to return to the event until 1939.[7]
  • In field hockey, only three nations took part. The host nation lost both matches, 1–24 to India and 2–9 to Japan, but still won a bronze medal.
  • Poland's Stanisława Walasiewicz won the gold medal in the women's 100 m; she also won the silver medal in the event four years later. After her death in 1980, it was discovered that she was intersex and would have been ineligible to participate under modern rules.
  • Eddie Tolan won both the 100 m and 200 m sprint events.
  • Romeo Neri won three gold medals in gymnastics.
  • Helene Madison won three gold medals in swimming, while the Japanese upset the men's events and took all but one title.
  • Takeichi Nishi (Baron Nishi) was the gold medalist with his horse Uranus in the equestrian show jumping individual event. Nishi's gold medal is Japan's only gold medal in the equestrian event to this day. Nishi died in 1945 as an officer stationed in the defense of the island of Iwo Jima, and as such is an important character in Clint Eastwood's film, Letters from Iwo Jima.
  • Kusuo Kitamura won the gold medal in the men's 1500 meter freestyle swimming race. He was and continues to be the youngest ever male swimmer to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games.
  • Dunc Gray won Australia's first cycling gold medal; he set a world record of 1m 13s in the 1000 time trial. The Dunc Gray Velodrome, built for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, was named after him.
  • Due to an official's error, the 3,000 m steeplechase went for 3,460 m, or one extra lap.[10]
  • Although women's team gymnastics debuted in the previous Olympics, the event was not held in these games; however, there were women gymnasts who traveled to Los Angeles and participated in exhibition events at the 1932 games.[11]
  • Several women's events debuted at these games, among them the 80 meters hurdles and javelin throw.[12][13] Babe Didrikson won both events and also competed in the high jump where she was controversially denied gold, leaving her with silver.[14] As women, unlike men, were only allowed to enter a maximum of three events, Didrikson could not compete in the discus throw, long jump, and relay where she would have likely medaled based on her prior results. Had the 200 meters and pentathlon been contested at these games (they debuted in 1964), Didrikson would have won them easily based on her performances prior to the Olympics.[15]

Medals awarded

 
Takeichi Nishi with Olympic steed, Uranus

117 events in 20 disciplines, comprising 14 sports, were part of the Olympic program in 1932. In one of two Equestrian jumping events (team competitions) no medals were awarded. The number of events in each discipline is noted in parentheses.

Demonstration sports

Art

The Art competitions at the 1932 Summer Olympics awarded medals for works inspired by sport-related themes in five categories: architecture, literature, music, painting, and sculpture.

Venues

 
The Rose Bowl hosted the track cycling events for the 1932 Summer Olympics

Fifteen sports venues were used for the 1932 Summer Olympics. In order to control costs in the wake of the Great Depression, existing venues were used. They included two golf courses, two city parks, three public highways, and a city road. The Swimming Stadium was the only new venue constructed for these games. The Rose Bowl, constructed in 1921, was made into a temporary velodrome for track cycling events under the auspices of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI).[16][17] The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, constructed in 1923, was used as the Olympic Stadium.[18][19] The Olympic Auditorium was constructed in 1924 in preparation for Los Angeles being awarded the Games; it was modified to meet the specifications of the boxing, weightlifting, and wrestling federations.[20] Long Beach Marine Stadium was created in 1925 when Alamitos Bay was dredged, then further dredged seven years later in time for the 1932 Games.[21] Elysian Park, the oldest city park in Los Angeles, was founded in 1886, and has been part of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) training academy since 1925.[22][23] The Riviera Country Club opened in 1926 as the Los Angeles Athletic Club Golf Course and was renamed Riviera by the time of the 1932 Games.[24] The swimming stadium, constructed adjacent to the Coliseum in 1932, was intended to be a temporary structure.[25] Riverside Drive, Los Angeles Avenue, Vineyard Avenue, and the Pacific Coast Highway were common driving routes in California at the time of the 1932 Games.[26][27]

The Coliseum was the first home for the Dodgers Major League Baseball (MLB) team when it moved from Brooklyn, New York in the 1958 season.[28] The following year, it hosted the MLB All-Star Game and the World Series.[29][30] Once Dodger Stadium was completed in 1962, the Dodgers moved there where they have been since.[31] The Los Angeles Rams National Football League (NFL) team used the Coliseum as its host stadium from 1946 to 1980 when it moved to Anaheim, located southeast of Los Angeles.[32][33] It also hosted what became known as Super Bowl I in 1967.[34] Even the American Football League's Chargers used the Coliseum as a venue in 1960 until their move to San Diego the following year.[35] The Coliseum continues to host USC Trojans football games to this day, and also hosted UCLA Bruins football for a number of years. The Rams returned to the Coliseum for a span of four years from 2016 to 2019.

The track constructed in the Rose Bowl was given to the Tournament of Roses Association upon completion of the 1932 Games.[16] The Bowl was expanded between 1932 and the 1984 Summer Olympics three times, increasing its capacity from 83,000 in 1931 to 104,594 in 1972.[36] It hosted Super Bowl XI in 1977, where the Oakland Raiders defeated the Minnesota Vikings 32–14.[36] It is the current home of UCLA Bruins football and the Rose Bowl Game, and was the home of the L.A. Galaxy soccer team for a number of years.

Elysian Park's shooting range was left intact for the LAPD to use.[16] Sunset Fields Golf Club was renamed Brentwood Country Club in 1941 and is still in use as of 2010.[37] All of the road courses were returned to public usage after the Olympics.[26][27] The Olympic Auditorium continued to be of use for boxing and roller derby events[38] until June 2005 when it was bought to be used as a megachurch. Los Angeles Harbor continues to be a major sea port in the Western United States, employing 919,000 people and generating US$39.1 billion in annual wages and tax revenues as of 2007.[39] The Riveria Country Club continues to host golf events, hosting the 1948 U.S. Open and the PGA Championship in 1983 and 1995.[40][41][42] The Swim Stadium was renovated in 2003 and continues to be in use as of 2010.[43]

For the 1984 Summer Olympics, the Coliseum and the Rose Bowl were used as venues.[44]

Venue Sports Capacity Ref.
160th Regiment State Armory Fencing, Modern pentathlon (fencing) 1,800 [45]
Los Angeles Harbor Sailing Not listed [46]
Los Angeles Police Pistol Range Modern pentathlon (shooting), Shooting Not listed [16]
Long Beach Marine Stadium Rowing 17,000 [47]
Los Angeles Avenue Cycling (road) Not listed [26]
Olympic Auditorium Boxing, Weightlifting, Wrestling 10,000. [20]
Olympic Stadium Athletics, Equestrian (eventing, jumping), Field hockey, Gymnastics 105,000 [18]
Pacific Coast Highway Cycling (road) Not listed [26]
Riverside Drive at Griffith Park Athletics (50 km walk) Not listed [27]
Riviera Country Club Equestrian (dressage, eventing), Modern pentathlon (riding) 9,500 [48]
Rose Bowl in Pasadena Cycling (track) 85,000 [16]
Sunset Fields Golf Club Modern pentathlon (running) Not listed [49]
Swimming Stadium Diving, Modern pentathlon (swimming), Swimming, Water polo 10,000 [25]
Vineyard Avenue Cycling (road) Not listed [26]
Westchester Equestrian (cross-country riding) Not listed [50]

Participating nations

 
Participants (blue = first-time)
 
Number of athletes

A total of 37 nations were represented at the 1932 Games. Colombia made its first appearance at the Olympic Games, and the Republic of China competed for the first time after its failed appearance at the 1924 Games.

Participating National Olympic Committees

Number of athletes by National Olympic Committees


Medal count

Main article: 1932 Summer Olympics medal table

These are the top ten nations that won medals at the 1932 Games.

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1   United States (host nation) 41 32 30 103
2   Italy 12 12 12 36
3   France 10 5 4 19
4   Sweden 9 5 9 23
5   Japan 7 7 4 18
6   Hungary 6 4 5 15
7   Finland 5 8 12 25
8   Great Britain 4 7 5 16
9   Germany 3 12 5 20
10   Australia 3 1 1 5

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Nations competing at the Amsterdam Olympics but not the 1932 Los Angeles Games were Bulgaria, Chile, Cuba, Egypt, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Panama, Rhodesia, Romania and Turkey.
  2. ^ a b Hoover, who also skipped the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, was the second U.S. president to miss a Games in the United States held during his term. The first was President Theodore Roosevelt, who decided not to attend the 1904 Summer Olympics, held in St. Louis, Missouri, because St. Louis mayor David R. Francis declined to let Roosevelt help officiate.[2]
  3. ^ In a letter dated May 1931, the IOC president, Count Henri de Baillet-Latour, advised the organizing committees of both Summer and Winter games that athletes should "stand on three pedestals, with the centre one higher than the two others." See Martin (2000) and Olympic.org article "1932: THE PODIUM MAKES ITS OLYMPIC DEBUT".

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1932, summer, olympics, officially, games, olympiad, also, known, angeles, 1932, were, international, multi, sport, event, held, from, july, august, 1932, angeles, california, united, states, games, were, held, during, worldwide, great, depression, with, some,. The 1932 Summer Olympics officially the Games of the X Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1932 were an international multi sport event held from July 30 to August 14 1932 in Los Angeles California United States The Games were held during the worldwide Great Depression with some nations not traveling to Los Angeles 37 nations competed compared to the 46 in the 1928 Games in Amsterdam a and even then U S President Herbert Hoover did not attend the Games b The organizing committee did not report the financial details of the Games although contemporary newspapers claimed that the Games had made a profit of US 1 000 000 b Games of the X OlympiadEmblem of the 1932 Summer OlympicsHost cityLos Angeles United StatesNations37Athletes1 332 1 206 men 126 women Events117 in 14 sports 20 disciplines OpeningJuly 30 1932ClosingAugust 14 1932Opened byVice President Charles Curtis 1 StadiumLos Angeles Memorial ColiseumSummer Amsterdam 1928Berlin 1936 Winter Lake Placid 1932Garmisch 1936 Contents 1 Host city selection 2 Highlights 3 Medals awarded 3 1 Demonstration sports 3 2 Art 4 Venues 5 Participating nations 5 1 Number of athletes by National Olympic Committees 6 Medal count 7 See also 8 Notes 9 References 10 External linksHost city selection EditThe selection of the host city for the 1932 Summer Olympics was made at the 23rd IOC Session in Rome Italy on 9 April 1923 Remarkably the selection process consisted of a single bid from Los Angeles and as there were no bids from any other city Los Angeles was selected by default to host the 1932 Games Highlights Edit The Australian Olympic Team at the Olympic Stadium Los Angeles 1932 Lauri Lehtinen left and Ralph Hill finishing the 5000 m race at the 1932 Olympics Charles Curtis became the first and only United States vice president to inaugurate the Olympic Games An Olympic Village was built for the first time and became a model for future games in Baldwin Hills occupied by male athletes 3 4 Female athletes were housed at the Chapman Park Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard The victory podium was used for the first time at the summer games a podium was also used earlier in the year at the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid 5 6 c An Olympic mascot Scottish Terrier Smoky was featured for the first time in history The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum was known in 1932 as Olympic Stadium Tenth Street a major thoroughfare in Los Angeles was renamed Olympic Boulevard in honor of the Games of the Tenth Olympiad Babe Didrikson won two gold medals in the javelin and the hurdles event She also competed in a jump off for a gold in the high jump Her technique in the jump off was ruled illegal leaving Didrikson with second place Paavo Nurmi was suspended from competition by the IAAF for alleged violation of amateur rules Finns charged that the Swedish officials had used devious tricks in their campaign against Nurmi s amateur status 7 and ceased all athletic relations with Sweden 8 A year earlier controversies on the track and in the press had led Finland to withdraw from the Finland Sweden athletics international 9 After Nurmi s suspension Finland did not agree to return to the event until 1939 7 In field hockey only three nations took part The host nation lost both matches 1 24 to India and 2 9 to Japan but still won a bronze medal Poland s Stanislawa Walasiewicz won the gold medal in the women s 100 m she also won the silver medal in the event four years later After her death in 1980 it was discovered that she was intersex and would have been ineligible to participate under modern rules Eddie Tolan won both the 100 m and 200 m sprint events Romeo Neri won three gold medals in gymnastics Helene Madison won three gold medals in swimming while the Japanese upset the men s events and took all but one title Takeichi Nishi Baron Nishi was the gold medalist with his horse Uranus in the equestrian show jumping individual event Nishi s gold medal is Japan s only gold medal in the equestrian event to this day Nishi died in 1945 as an officer stationed in the defense of the island of Iwo Jima and as such is an important character in Clint Eastwood s film Letters from Iwo Jima Kusuo Kitamura won the gold medal in the men s 1500 meter freestyle swimming race He was and continues to be the youngest ever male swimmer to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games Dunc Gray won Australia s first cycling gold medal he set a world record of 1m 13s in the 1000 time trial The Dunc Gray Velodrome built for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games was named after him Due to an official s error the 3 000 m steeplechase went for 3 460 m or one extra lap 10 Although women s team gymnastics debuted in the previous Olympics the event was not held in these games however there were women gymnasts who traveled to Los Angeles and participated in exhibition events at the 1932 games 11 Several women s events debuted at these games among them the 80 meters hurdles and javelin throw 12 13 Babe Didrikson won both events and also competed in the high jump where she was controversially denied gold leaving her with silver 14 As women unlike men were only allowed to enter a maximum of three events Didrikson could not compete in the discus throw long jump and relay where she would have likely medaled based on her prior results Had the 200 meters and pentathlon been contested at these games they debuted in 1964 Didrikson would have won them easily based on her performances prior to the Olympics 15 Medals awarded Edit Takeichi Nishi with Olympic steed Uranus 117 events in 20 disciplines comprising 14 sports were part of the Olympic program in 1932 In one of two Equestrian jumping events team competitions no medals were awarded The number of events in each discipline is noted in parentheses Aquatics Diving 4 Swimming 11 Water polo 1 Athletics 29 Boxing 8 Cycling Road 2 Track 4 Equestrian Dressage 2 Eventing 2 Show jumping 2 Fencing 7 Gymnastics 11 Field hockey 1 Modern pentathlon 1 Rowing 7 Sailing 4 Shooting 2 Weightlifting 5 Wrestling Freestyle 7 Greco Roman 7 Demonstration sports Edit American football 1 Lacrosse 1 Art Edit The Art competitions at the 1932 Summer Olympics awarded medals for works inspired by sport related themes in five categories architecture literature music painting and sculpture Venues Edit The Rose Bowl hosted the track cycling events for the 1932 Summer Olympics Fifteen sports venues were used for the 1932 Summer Olympics In order to control costs in the wake of the Great Depression existing venues were used They included two golf courses two city parks three public highways and a city road The Swimming Stadium was the only new venue constructed for these games The Rose Bowl constructed in 1921 was made into a temporary velodrome for track cycling events under the auspices of the Union Cycliste Internationale UCI 16 17 The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum constructed in 1923 was used as the Olympic Stadium 18 19 The Olympic Auditorium was constructed in 1924 in preparation for Los Angeles being awarded the Games it was modified to meet the specifications of the boxing weightlifting and wrestling federations 20 Long Beach Marine Stadium was created in 1925 when Alamitos Bay was dredged then further dredged seven years later in time for the 1932 Games 21 Elysian Park the oldest city park in Los Angeles was founded in 1886 and has been part of the Los Angeles Police Department LAPD training academy since 1925 22 23 The Riviera Country Club opened in 1926 as the Los Angeles Athletic Club Golf Course and was renamed Riviera by the time of the 1932 Games 24 The swimming stadium constructed adjacent to the Coliseum in 1932 was intended to be a temporary structure 25 Riverside Drive Los Angeles Avenue Vineyard Avenue and the Pacific Coast Highway were common driving routes in California at the time of the 1932 Games 26 27 The Coliseum was the first home for the Dodgers Major League Baseball MLB team when it moved from Brooklyn New York in the 1958 season 28 The following year it hosted the MLB All Star Game and the World Series 29 30 Once Dodger Stadium was completed in 1962 the Dodgers moved there where they have been since 31 The Los Angeles Rams National Football League NFL team used the Coliseum as its host stadium from 1946 to 1980 when it moved to Anaheim located southeast of Los Angeles 32 33 It also hosted what became known as Super Bowl I in 1967 34 Even the American Football League s Chargers used the Coliseum as a venue in 1960 until their move to San Diego the following year 35 The Coliseum continues to host USC Trojans football games to this day and also hosted UCLA Bruins football for a number of years The Rams returned to the Coliseum for a span of four years from 2016 to 2019 The track constructed in the Rose Bowl was given to the Tournament of Roses Association upon completion of the 1932 Games 16 The Bowl was expanded between 1932 and the 1984 Summer Olympics three times increasing its capacity from 83 000 in 1931 to 104 594 in 1972 36 It hosted Super Bowl XI in 1977 where the Oakland Raiders defeated the Minnesota Vikings 32 14 36 It is the current home of UCLA Bruins football and the Rose Bowl Game and was the home of the L A Galaxy soccer team for a number of years Elysian Park s shooting range was left intact for the LAPD to use 16 Sunset Fields Golf Club was renamed Brentwood Country Club in 1941 and is still in use as of 2010 37 All of the road courses were returned to public usage after the Olympics 26 27 The Olympic Auditorium continued to be of use for boxing and roller derby events 38 until June 2005 when it was bought to be used as a megachurch Los Angeles Harbor continues to be a major sea port in the Western United States employing 919 000 people and generating US 39 1 billion in annual wages and tax revenues as of 2007 39 The Riveria Country Club continues to host golf events hosting the 1948 U S Open and the PGA Championship in 1983 and 1995 40 41 42 The Swim Stadium was renovated in 2003 and continues to be in use as of 2010 43 For the 1984 Summer Olympics the Coliseum and the Rose Bowl were used as venues 44 Venue Sports Capacity Ref 160th Regiment State Armory Fencing Modern pentathlon fencing 1 800 45 Los Angeles Harbor Sailing Not listed 46 Los Angeles Police Pistol Range Modern pentathlon shooting Shooting Not listed 16 Long Beach Marine Stadium Rowing 17 000 47 Los Angeles Avenue Cycling road Not listed 26 Olympic Auditorium Boxing Weightlifting Wrestling 10 000 20 Olympic Stadium Athletics Equestrian eventing jumping Field hockey Gymnastics 105 000 18 Pacific Coast Highway Cycling road Not listed 26 Riverside Drive at Griffith Park Athletics 50 km walk Not listed 27 Riviera Country Club Equestrian dressage eventing Modern pentathlon riding 9 500 48 Rose Bowl in Pasadena Cycling track 85 000 16 Sunset Fields Golf Club Modern pentathlon running Not listed 49 Swimming Stadium Diving Modern pentathlon swimming Swimming Water polo 10 000 25 Vineyard Avenue Cycling road Not listed 26 Westchester Equestrian cross country riding Not listed 50 Participating nations Edit Participants blue first time Number of athletes A total of 37 nations were represented at the 1932 Games Colombia made its first appearance at the Olympic Games and the Republic of China competed for the first time after its failed appearance at the 1924 Games Participating National Olympic Committees Argentina 32 Australia 12 Austria 19 Belgium 36 Brazil 82 Canada 102 Republic of China 1 Colombia 1 Czechoslovakia 7 Denmark 43 Estonia 2 Finland 40 France 103 Germany 134 Great Britain 108 Greece 10 Haiti 2 Hungary 58 India 19 Ireland 8 Italy 112 Japan 157 Latvia 2 Mexico 73 Netherlands 45 New Zealand 21 Norway 5 Philippines 8 Poland 51 Portugal 6 South Africa 12 Spain 6 Sweden 81 Switzerland 6 United States 474 host Uruguay 1 Yugoslavia 1 Number of athletes by National Olympic Committees Edit IOC Country AthletesUSA United States 474JPN Japan 157GER Germany 134ITA Italy 112GBR Great Britain 108FRA France 103CAN Canada 102BRA Brazil 82SWE Sweden 81MEX Mexico 73HUN Hungary 58POL Poland 51NED Netherlands 45DEN Denmark 43FIN Finland 40BEL Belgium 36ARG Argentina 32NZL New Zealand 21AUT Austria 19IND India 19AUS Australia 12RSA South Africa 12GRE Greece 10IRL Ireland 8PHI Philippines 8TCH Czechoslovakia 7POR Portugal 6ESP Spain 6SUI Switzerland 6NOR Norway 5EST Estonia 2HAI Haiti 2LAT Latvia 2ROC Republic of China 1COL Colombia 1URU Uruguay 1YUG Yugoslavia 1Total 1 332Medal count EditMain article 1932 Summer Olympics medal table These are the top ten nations that won medals at the 1932 Games Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total1 United States host nation 41 32 30 1032 Italy 12 12 12 363 France 10 5 4 194 Sweden 9 5 9 235 Japan 7 7 4 186 Hungary 6 4 5 157 Finland 5 8 12 258 Great Britain 4 7 5 169 Germany 3 12 5 2010 Australia 3 1 1 5See also Edit Olympic Games portal1932 Winter Olympics Olympic Games celebrated in the United States 1904 Summer Olympics St Louis 1932 Summer Olympics Los Angeles 1932 Winter Olympics Lake Placid 1960 Winter Olympics Squaw Valley 1980 Winter Olympics Lake Placid 1984 Summer Olympics Los Angeles 1996 Summer Olympics Atlanta 2002 Winter Olympics Salt Lake City 2028 Summer Olympics Los AngelesList of IOC country codesNotes Edit Nations competing at the Amsterdam Olympics but not the 1932 Los Angeles Games were Bulgaria Chile Cuba Egypt Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Panama Rhodesia Romania and Turkey a b Hoover who also skipped the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid New York was the second U S president to miss a Games in the United States held during his term The first was President Theodore Roosevelt who decided not to attend the 1904 Summer Olympics held in St Louis Missouri because St Louis mayor David R Francis declined to let Roosevelt help officiate 2 In a letter dated May 1931 the IOC president Count Henri de Baillet Latour advised the organizing committees of both Summer and Winter games that athletes should stand on three pedestals with the centre one higher than the two others See Martin 2000 and Olympic org article 1932 THE PODIUM MAKES ITS OLYMPIC DEBUT References Edit Factsheet Opening Ceremony of the Games f the Olympiad PDF Press release International Olympic Committee September 13 2013 Archived PDF from the original on August 14 2016 Retrieved December 22 2018 Zarnowski C Frank Summer 1992 A Look at Olympic Costs PDF Citius Altius Fortius 1 1 16 32 Archived from the original PDF on May 28 2008 Retrieved March 24 2007 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Athlete s Village in Baldwin Hills Accessed November 12 2007 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Athlete s Village Baldwin Hills Baldwin Hills Information Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Archived November 14 2007 at the Wayback Machine National Landmarks Program National Park Service Accessed November 12 2007 Martin D E Martin D A amp Gynn R W 2000 The Olympic Marathon Human Kinetics p 146 a b Finland and Sweden renew old rivalry on the athletics track this 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