USA Los Angeles
XXIII Summer International Olympic Games

In the long history of the modern Olympics only two cities hosted the Games twice. These cities include Los Angeles.
The 1984 Summer Olympics welcomed the debut of athletes from Bangladesh, Bahrain, Bhutan, (British) Virgin Islands, Gambia, Grenada, Djibouti, Western Samoa, Yemen, Qatar, Mauritius, Mauritania, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Rwanda, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Equatorial Guinea.
Totally, 6829 athletes (including 1566 female ones) of 140 nations competed at the Olympics. The Soviet athletes did not participate in the Los Angeles Games due to political reasons.
Athletes of East Germany, Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Mongolia, Vietnam, North Korea, Laos, Afghanistan and Ethiopia also did not come to Los Angeles due to the same political reasons.
The Olympic Flame was lit at the Los Angeles Stadium by famous American decathlete Rafer Johnson. The Athlete’s Oath was taken by Olympic Champion athlete Edwin Moses, and the Judge’s Oath was voiced by gymnastic judge Sharon Heber.
The Games of the XXIII Olympiad were officially opened by US President Ronald Reagan.

WINNER MEDALS
Organizers of the Olympics had taken a decision to leave the design of the medal obverse and reverse unaltered. But the medal was slightly updated, so to speak. The updates were so minor that they are hardly visible.
The designer used a silk ribbon of Olympic colors attached to the medal itself with two rings.
The designer of the updated medal was Dugald Stermer.
OBVERSE: a figure of the Greek Goddess of Victory, holding a laurel wreath in her right hand, hand raised, and a palm leaf in her left hand. On the left of the goddess, there is a Panathenaean amphora standing on a shelf rock, with depicted competing athletes. A view of an amphitheatre looking like the Roman Coliseum appears on the right of the goddess. A horizontal fourline inscription in English reading “XXIII – Olympiad – Los Angeles – 1984” is engraved in the right upper segment.
REVERSE: a scene of an Olympic champion with a palm leaf in his left hand carried in triumph by other athletes; his right hand is raised to hail. There are no initials of the designer “G.C.” (Giuseppe Cassioli) engraved on the reverse side.

COMMEMORATIVE MEDAL
OBVERSE: a composition of a stylized Olympic torch head in the center, with the Olympic rings and two Latin words “Citius” and “Altius” along its upper edge, and the skyline of the Olympic Stadium face in the mid part of the torch. The Olympic motto “Citius, Altius, Fortius” is engraved in full around the top rim of the medal over the torch. A legend in English also around the rim of the medal but below the torch reads “XXIII – Olympiad”.
REVERSE: the Olympic logo, the Stars in Motion, appears over the Olympic rings and year 1984 ornamented with laurel branches. The years of minting 1980/1984 and abbreviate mint name “L.O.O.C.” are engraved below the branches around the bottom rim.
The name of the host city (Los Angeles) is engraved around the top rim over the Olympic logo.

GOLD WINNER MEDAL (FIRST PRIZE)

Metal	silver-gilt
Diameter	63,5 mm
Thickness	5,8 mm
Weight	142,5 g
Designer	Ciuseppe Cassioli and Dugald Stermer
Mint	Jostens, Inc. (Indianapolis, Ind., USA)

SILVER WINNER MEDAL (SECOND PRIZE) 

Metal	silver
Diameter	63,5 mm
Thickness	5,8 mm
Weight	137 g
Designer	Ciuseppe Cassioli and Dugald Stermer
Mint	Jostens, Inc. (Indianapolis, Ind., USA)

BRONZE WINNER MEDAL (THIRD PRIZE) 

Metal	bronze
Diameter	63,5 mm
Thickness	5,8 mm
Weight	116 g
Designer	Ciuseppe Cassioli and Dugald Stermer
Mint	Jostens, Inc. (Indianapolis, Ind., USA)

COMMEMORATIVE MEDAL