1932 Olympics

The 1932 Summer Olympics, officially known as the X Olympic Games, was an international multi-sport event held from July 30 to August 14, 1932 in Los Angeles, California, United States. The Games took place largely in the aftermath of the Great Depression and many nations were unable to pay for the travel to Los Angeles; 37 nations were participating in Amsterdam, equal to 46 at the 1928 Summer Olympics; US President Herbert Hoover was not present at the Games, either. The organising committee did not announce the Games ' financial reports but contemporary newspapers claimed that the Games yielded a profit of $1 million. In 1923 the selection of host city for the 1932 Summer Olympics was decided at the 23rd IOC Conference in Rome, Italy. Remarkably the selection process consisted of a single bid from Los Angeles, and because there were no bids from any other country, Los Angeles was selected by default to host the 1932 Games. Originally established in Baldwin Hills, an Olympic Village has become a destination for male-inhabited amateur athletes. Women’s clubs are operated by Chapman Park Lounge on Wilshire Boulevard. We used the table for triumph for the second time too. In 1932, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum was called The Olympic Arena. Tenth Street, a major Los Angeles thoroughfare, was called Olympic Boulevard to commemorate the 10th Olympic Games. Babe Didrikson won two Gold Medals in the javelin and hurdles event. She has also played in a face-off for the high jump for a victory. Her failed jump-off has been ruled illegal, leaving Didrikson in secondi had disqualified Paavo Nurmi from the competition for alleged amateur rules violations. Finns accused the Swedish authorities of using devious tactics in their fight against Nurmi's amateur status and severed all sporting relations with Sweden’s Kitamura won the gold medal at the freestyle swimming event for the men of 1500 metres. He’s the first male swimmer ever to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games and he continues to do so. Dunc Gray won Australia's first gold medal on cycling; he seta world record in the 1000-time trial at 1 m 13s.The Dunc Gray Velodrome that was built in Sydney for the 2000 Olympic Games was named after him. The 3,000-m steeplechase went down for 3,460 almost a whole course, due to an official's mistake. In 1932 the Olympic Schedule featured 117events in 20 disciplines plus 14 others. Any of the two Jumping Equestrian competitions won no trophies. Scandals on the track and in the newspapers a year earlier had led Finland to withdraw from the Finnish-Swedish rivalry. Not until 1939, after Nurmi was fired, Finland consented to the condition return. In field hockey only three countries had participated. The host nation lost both matches, 1-24 matches against India and 2-9 matches against Japan but also won a bronze medal. Stanislaw Alexievich from Poland won the 100 m gold medal for women; in the event, four years ago, she would also win the silver medal. Eddie Tolan has previously won 100metre and 200 metre sprint events. Romeo Nery has won3 Gold Medals in gymnastics. Helene Madison won three gold medals in swimming as the Japanese dominated men's events and claimed all but one title. Takeichi Nishi and his horse Uranus were the gold medallist on the equestrian show jumping individual event. Nishi's gold medal has been Japan's only gold medal in equestrian sport to date. Nishi would later die in 1945 as an officer fighting in defence of the island of Iwo Jima and as such is a central character in Clint Eastwood's film, Letters from Iwo Jima.