After almost 40 years, I finally got to see the entire ceremony. In 1984, I was flying home from Australia as the march of the athletes started. I landed in LA two days later. VERY disorienting!
The march of people to Beethoven's Ode to Joy & whose native origins were from throughout the world was a moving sight. Then capping that off with a round of "Reach Out & Touch Someone's Hand" was imho one of the most fitting moments in Olympic history.
Wow, I’ve been looking for the past few decades for a clean feed of the opening ceremonies. I was in the parade of nations for Switzerland and didn’t see much of Switzerland in the US broadcast. In this version, I saw Switzerland numerous times and myself two times! Thank you so much for this video. It brings back a flood of memories! I hope one day ABC uses the original tapes to create a full video but this one is invaluable.
Nifty that is the annoucerless pool feed ..Didnt know that Alfred Newman's Conquest was played.That piece is still played to this day at USC Football games at that same stadium..
Romania was the star of the presentation of the nations and the Olympics, the only country from the communist bloc that did not boycott the Olympics and came in second place in the overall medal ranking! Minute 29.12 Romania makes its appearance in the cheers of the spectators who stand up!
Nice round of applause for Yugoslavia!! Sarajevo was such a gracious host for the winter games. No one even had a hint that 7 or 8 years later Yugoslavia and Sarajevo would be torn apart by civil war.
@@nelimaretic8677 technically yes and no. Tito was a disciple of the USSR system, but maintained a level of independence. But the applause for Yugoslavia was because they had just hosted the '84 games, a relatively poor country that pulled that off.
@@eddiemag1799 Tito was never a disciple of the USSR systems, and basically giving the 🖕 to Stalin in 1948. Tito had different plans regarding socialism and it was fine while he was alive. He was balancing between the West and the East. And when it comes down to Iron Curtain, Yugoslavia was free. People were able to travel, borders were open, you could do whatever you want it to do. p.s. Yugoslavia died with Tito and that's the truth. Greetings from Split, ex-Yugoslavia, generation of 1963.… 🌹😉😁
Yugoslavia - what a name! It's like music to my ears. When I hear "Yugoslavia," I can't help but think of excellence and extraordinary athletes. I mean, the Yugoslavs were killing it in every sport imaginable. It's like they were born to win! The legacy they left behind is just mind-blowing. Did you know that even in 2024, Yugoslavia still holds the most world championship titles in Basketball? That's some serious domination right there! And to think that they're still holding onto those world championship titles after all these years - now that's what I call staying power! So, next time you hear the word "Yugoslavia," remember the powerhouse of sports it once was. Those athletes were true icons, setting records that still stand today. It's a name that will forever be synonymous with greatness in the world of sports.
29:14 I’m Romanian but the moment where the people were applauding the Romanian delegate has a pertinent reason: during the communist period, the socialist nations from Eastern Europe has boycotted the OG 1984, as a response of US’ boycott from OG in 1980. And of course, Romania hasn’t accepted this thing 😊, and we have participated
🫶🏼 Memorable entry of the representatives of Mexico 🇲🇽, with the exquisite musical detail 🎼🎺🎻🥁🎶 of "La march de Zacatecas", composed in 1892 by Genaro Codina.
They didn't show how Rafer Johnson on the commercial feed back in 1984. I always wondered how he got down from that precarious platform without having to slide on his butt until seeing this feed. Riding the contraption as the whole thing descends must have been scary but I whole lot more dignified.
I'm from Poland. This Olympics was really great. It is a pity that there were no athletes from my homeland. But it happened because the communist politicians decided for them to boycott the Olympics in Los Angeles, thus depriving them of the chance to experience the most beautiful moment in their lives and the chance for Olympic medals. In those days, Poland was in the grip of communism and had to dance as her big brother called the Soviet Union played. Besides, this boycott was really a retaliation for the previous boycott of the Moscow Olympics by most Western countries.
4 wks since your comment, let me add that the sociopolitical scene in the US (the world too) is increasingly mean & toxic. Corrupt, greedy & unscrupulous too. Some of the goodwill & cultural-political normalcy of the US in 1984 & even 1984's new-entry People's Republic of China (still emerging after decades of the particular misery & inhumanity of Maoism, therefore a bit less ideological) has evaporated over the past 40 yrs.
Romania was the only communist country which was present at this Olympics. It the second place after the USA.
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@@irenemirela Besides Romania, several other 'communist' or socialist countries sent their delegations to the 1984 Summer Olympics, including the parade of nations in the opening ceremony at the LA Memorial Coliseum: the People's Republic of China (competing for the first time alongside Taiwan or the Republic of China, the latter taking part under the moniker "Chinese Taipei"), Benin, Congo-Brazzaville, Somalia (who'd been at odds with the Soviet Union since the Ogaden War), Mozambique, and Romania's very own south-western neighbour, Yugoslavia 🙂
In 2028, Los Angeles will once again host the Summer Olympic Games for the third time. In preparation for the games, the city is improving its various infrastructures (airport, transit system, Olympic venues) at present in what is expected to be the most technologically advanced Olympic Games ever.
I truly think the USSR made a mistake not coming, just imagine the Americans and Soviets coming together and dancing at the end. The Cold War would have ended in the mid-80s instead of the late 80’s.
The proscribed words of the International Olympic Committee, which go back decades, are exactly the way that Reagan read them. However, he flipped the ending part of the paragraph to make its predicate stronger. The conventional format is: "I declare open the Olympics games of [name of host city], celebrating the [either 'st, 'nd, 'rd, 'th] Olympiad of the modern era."
Jim McKay and Peter Jennings talked over all of this on the US feed. Non-stop jabbering. Nice to finally see this without anybody narrating. This was before tech. It was all performance and magnificent staging.
Who y'all think will be lighting the torch in '28? Im assuming it's going to be a woman since all the previous have been men. Maybe the 96 gymnastics team?
@@ricotheofficial Sports have always been political. Many sports exist solely because of politics. The Olympics are a huge geopolitical event as well as an huge athletic event. We all have to deal with it.
@tokenjoy Given that the 2028 Olympic Games will be held in the biggest city in the Great State of California, home of the 4th largest economy in the world and bastion of liberal democracy, you can be damn sure there won’t be any MAGAats infecting the 2028 Olympic Games held in El Pueblo De Nuestra Señora La Reina De Los Ángeles (The City Of Our Lady Queen Of The Angels).
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10:25 Host of the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul-Four years after Los Angeles.
After almost 40 years, I finally got to see the entire ceremony. In 1984, I was flying home from Australia as the march of the athletes started. I landed in LA two days later. VERY disorienting!
Everyone looks so happy at the end.
Year 2022.. and it's still spectacular!!!! One of the greatest spectacles in history!!!
Yep!! I agree, NachoFarias80!!!
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The march of people to Beethoven's Ode to Joy & whose native origins were from throughout the world was a moving sight. Then capping that off with a round of "Reach Out & Touch Someone's Hand" was imho one of the most fitting moments in Olympic history.
이노래좋다~
17:12 México enters and the Zacatecas March is played.
What a nice detail.
Los Angeles 2028 Summer Olympics!
Romania, second place after the USA, with a total of 53 medals, of which 20 gold, 18 silver and 15 bronze
Wow, I’ve been looking for the past few decades for a clean feed of the opening ceremonies. I was in the parade of nations for Switzerland and didn’t see much of Switzerland in the US broadcast. In this version, I saw Switzerland numerous times and myself two times! Thank you so much for this video. It brings back a flood of memories! I hope one day ABC uses the original tapes to create a full video but this one is invaluable.
Seriously love those sweaters.
Nifty that is the annoucerless pool feed ..Didnt know that Alfred Newman's Conquest was played.That piece is still played to this day at USC Football games at that same stadium..
Romania was the star of the presentation of the nations and the Olympics, the only country from the communist bloc that did not boycott the Olympics and came in second place in the overall medal ranking! Minute 29.12 Romania makes its appearance in the cheers of the spectators who stand up!
17:11 Amazing entry of Mexico 🇲🇽
17:13 ……
Happy Birthday Los Angeles 40 years many greetings to Patrick
I remember watching this live and cheering Romania from home!
Nice round of applause for Yugoslavia!! Sarajevo was such a gracious host for the winter games. No one even had a hint that 7 or 8 years later Yugoslavia and Sarajevo would be torn apart by civil war.
Yugoslavia and Romania were the only two countries from the Iron Curtain that don't boycotted this games.
@@debonidaniel Yugoslavia wasn't behind Iron curtain...
@@nelimaretic8677 technically yes and no. Tito was a disciple of the USSR system, but maintained a level of independence.
But the applause for Yugoslavia was because they had just hosted the '84 games, a relatively poor country that pulled that off.
@@eddiemag1799 Tito was never a disciple of the USSR systems, and basically giving the 🖕 to Stalin in 1948. Tito had different plans regarding socialism and it was fine while he was alive. He was balancing between the West and the East. And when it comes down to Iron Curtain, Yugoslavia was free. People were able to travel, borders were open, you could do whatever you want it to do. p.s. Yugoslavia died with Tito and that's the truth. Greetings from Split, ex-Yugoslavia, generation of 1963.… 🌹😉😁
Yugoslavia - what a name! It's like music to my ears.
When I hear "Yugoslavia," I can't help but think of excellence and extraordinary athletes. I mean, the Yugoslavs were killing it in every sport imaginable. It's like they were born to win! The legacy they left behind is just mind-blowing.
Did you know that even in 2024, Yugoslavia still holds the most world championship titles in Basketball? That's some serious domination right there! And to think that they're still holding onto those world championship titles after all these years - now that's what I call staying power!
So, next time you hear the word "Yugoslavia," remember the powerhouse of sports it once was. Those athletes were true icons, setting records that still stand today. It's a name that will forever be synonymous with greatness in the world of sports.
3:27 Indonesia 🇮🇩
ANNOUNCER: Ivory Coast!
(Everyone rises, then sits, disappointed to find they are not giant marching bars of soap)
HA!!!
My father is a part of the Moroccan delegation. ❤❤❤❤
29:14 I’m Romanian but the moment where the people were applauding the Romanian delegate has a pertinent reason: during the communist period, the socialist nations from Eastern Europe has boycotted the OG 1984, as a response of US’ boycott from OG in 1980. And of course, Romania hasn’t accepted this thing 😊, and we have participated
🫶🏼 Memorable entry of the representatives of Mexico 🇲🇽, with the exquisite musical detail 🎼🎺🎻🥁🎶 of "La march de Zacatecas", composed in 1892 by Genaro Codina.
They didn't show how Rafer Johnson on the commercial feed back in 1984. I always wondered how he got down from that precarious platform without having to slide on his butt until seeing this feed. Riding the contraption as the whole thing descends must have been scary but I whole lot more dignified.
Crowd reaction at Romania was AMAZING
I noticed that. Was it because they defied the boycott?
Yes they did@@bribay
I'm from Poland. This Olympics was really great. It is a pity that there were no athletes from my homeland. But it happened because the communist politicians decided for them to boycott the Olympics in Los Angeles, thus depriving them of the chance to experience the most beautiful moment in their lives and the chance for Olympic medals. In those days, Poland was in the grip of communism and had to dance as her big brother called the Soviet Union played. Besides, this boycott was really a retaliation for the previous boycott of the Moscow Olympics by most Western countries.
4 wks since your comment, let me add that the sociopolitical scene in the US (the world too) is increasingly mean & toxic. Corrupt, greedy & unscrupulous too. Some of the goodwill & cultural-political normalcy of the US in 1984 & even 1984's new-entry People's Republic of China (still emerging after decades of the particular misery & inhumanity of Maoism, therefore a bit less ideological) has evaporated over the past 40 yrs.
Romania was the only communist country which was present at this Olympics. It the second place after the USA.
@@irenemirela Besides Romania, several other 'communist' or socialist countries sent their delegations to the 1984 Summer Olympics, including the parade of nations in the opening ceremony at the LA Memorial Coliseum: the People's Republic of China (competing for the first time alongside Taiwan or the Republic of China, the latter taking part under the moniker "Chinese Taipei"), Benin, Congo-Brazzaville, Somalia (who'd been at odds with the Soviet Union since the Ogaden War), Mozambique, and Romania's very own south-western neighbour, Yugoslavia 🙂
7:59~ Kimigayo Koshinkyoku
Олимпиада 1980 года открытие прошло куда на много лучше, и веселее. The 1980 Olympics, the opening of the sports games was much better and more fun.
In 2028, Los Angeles will once again host the Summer Olympic Games for the third time. In preparation for the games, the city is improving its various infrastructures (airport, transit system, Olympic venues) at present in what is expected to be the most technologically advanced Olympic Games ever.
1:27:24 Now this was a great sight that wasn't shown on ABC. Everyone standing in respect and cheering the US flag!
Los Angeles 1984 ist Kult Gruß Patrick
34:38 my country spain
Amazing. How'd you get this, and do you have any more footage like it? Thanks for posting it!
Thank you for this video!! the closing ceremony?
There is in another channels.
@@debonidaniel what it's the channel?
One of my classmates Mary Wayte won a gold medal for the 200 meter freestyle.
So curious how 2028 is going to play out. The music selection is going to be interesting. Back then it was really about peace, love, and happiness.
Two stadiums to do the ceremonies. Gonna be tedious.
@ariccua610yes but we can handle it
The perfect world, as it will never be, is in an arena, in an opening of the Olympic games...
The party was better than Moscow and Sarajevo and the ending of the ceremonies was so historical and started the opening ceremonies as we know.
А вы видели церемонию открытия московской Олимпиады? Если нет, то как вы сравнивать?
17:15 🇲🇽
I truly think the USSR made a mistake not coming, just imagine the Americans and Soviets coming together and dancing at the end. The Cold War would have ended in the mid-80s instead of the late 80’s.
Ce aplaudata era Romania 🇷🇴
Its not the Olympic games of Los Angeles (1:06:25) - its the 1984 World Olympics held in Los Angeles.
The proscribed words of the International Olympic Committee, which go back decades, are exactly the way that Reagan read them. However, he flipped the ending part of the paragraph to make its predicate stronger. The conventional format is: "I declare open the Olympics games of [name of host city], celebrating the [either 'st, 'nd, 'rd, 'th] Olympiad of the modern era."
Entrada de México en el minuto
17:13
Con la marcha de Zacatecas
ドイツの空軍歌や東京オリンピックマーチまでかかってて、正に音楽による開会式だった！
I love you 😊 Prezident OLIMPIA 🎉❤😊
0:44 オリンピック・マーチ!!!!!
This even opened by President Ronald Reagan
23:14 HEIA NORGE!!
Romania, the kid that will play outside despite it raining hard. Lol
Didn't know Kenya was a city in the country of Africa.
Jim McKay and Peter Jennings talked over all of this on the US feed. Non-stop jabbering. Nice to finally see this without anybody narrating. This was before tech. It was all performance and magnificent staging.
❤️❤️🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰👍Pakistan
Ty so much, seeing this ceremony again after 36 years
México 😍
8:00 祝典行進曲!!!!!
LA'28!
Los Angeles 1984 olympic USSR boycot
La Marcha de Zacatecas para México
ALGÉRIA HABIBI 🇩🇿🇩🇿🇩🇿🇩🇿🇩🇿🖤
10:27
29:10 Hai Romania
Who y'all think will be lighting the torch in '28?
Im assuming it's going to be a woman since all the previous have been men.
Maybe the 96 gymnastics team?
1:18:24
ANNOUNCER: Ireland!
(Someone throws a beer bottle from the crowd, Irish Olympians charge the stands, 15-minute brawl ensues)
Romania!
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥
10:27 Republic Of Korea 🇰🇷
Can you just imagine the Woke nonsense at the next LA Olympics.
And the racist nonsense too. Don’t forget about that. Hopefully everyone by 2028 will leave the political nonsense out of the games for two weeks.
@@ricotheofficial Sports have always been political. Many sports exist solely because of politics. The Olympics are a huge geopolitical event as well as an huge athletic event. We all have to deal with it.
@@tomshea8382 I don’t care about politics. The dude above is the one who cares about politics.
@@ricotheofficial You don't care? Is that why you called it nonsense?
@@tomshea8382 yeah… that’s the point of what I said. I don’t care. It’s all about sport(s)….
Yugoslavia,Romania and China didn't Boyscott the Olympic
@tokenjoy Given that the 2028 Olympic Games will be held in the biggest city in the Great State of California, home of the 4th largest economy in the world and bastion of liberal democracy, you can be damn sure there won’t be any MAGAats infecting the 2028 Olympic Games held in El Pueblo De Nuestra Señora La Reina De Los Ángeles (The City Of Our Lady Queen Of The Angels).
Welcome in Kazakhstan Migration OOH Moscow - Arkalyk aeroport new USSR Kazakhstan Prezident USSR OOH Akzer AllA Bekzatova
1:18:2=
Moscú fue más bonito
まだイギリス領だった香港。
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1:19:58 flags of the nations