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**The 1984 Games was awarded to Los Angeles in 1978.
** The 1984 Games was the first to attract widespread sponsorship by private corporations.
** The television rights alone amounted to $287 million in the 1984 Games, of which the maximum came from the ABC network for US rights.
** The 1984 Games attracted one of the largest TV audiences in history. Some 2500 million watched the Games.
** Romania was the only country from the Soviet bloc to participate in the 1984 Games.
** Shooter Xu Haifeng in the 1984 Games won China's it first ever gold medal.
** The attendances in the 1984 Games, was the maximum - nearly 5.7 million spectators watched the Games.
** The soccer final between France and Brazil in the 1984 Games attracted a crowd of over 100,000.
** The 1984 Los Angeles was the first Games to earn a profit - a neat $ 215 million.
** The president of the Los Angles Olympic Committee Peter Ueberroth was born on the same day 2 September 1937, that Baron de Courbertin, the founder of the Olympic movement, died.

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