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Page 14 - The Michigan Daily - Sunday, July 29, 1984
O0p ening9 Day 1984

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An estimated crowd of 88,000 filled the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum yesterday to witness the events of the opening ceremonies for the
XXIIird Olympiad.

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A flag drill team and the United States Olympic athletes (left) enter the
Coliseum during opening ceremonies.

Ceremonies inaugurate
f (ContinedAfrmPage1) authorities reported few traffic
LTHEATRES "welcome," and a blimp flying over the problems on the freeways as cars filled
is5 A L o. eA7s6-70 stadium was also emblazoned with the the outlying "park and ride" lots and
SNIORSEVERYEVENING$word. The five interlocking rings of the took buses to the ceremony.
SENIORS EVERY EVENING $3.00 modern Olympics were also written in About 7,500 athletes under the flags of
DALYFIRSTMATINEE $2.00 the sky, and written again in 140 countries marched into the
HURRY! ENDS THURS.! formations by marchers on the field. Coliseum in alphabetical order, from
ri t1 THE SKY was sunny, the air was Algeria to Zimbabwe, with two
TOP warm, humid and relatively clean at traditional exceptions. Greece was fir-
SECREl the Coliseum on the University of st, because it is the land where the
® ! Southern California campus. Scalpers Olympics began. The United States, as
were asking as much as $650 per seat. the host country, was last.
MON., TUES. 1:00, 7:10, 9:20 Parking spaces near the Coliseum Athletes from the People's Republic
SUN. 110, 3:10, 5:25, 7:10, 9:20 were going for as much as $100, but of China, participating in a Summer
g gOlympics for the first time since 1952,
DORIS JAMES won a huge ovation from the crowd.
E 7 HAI RCUTTERS MISSING WERE the banners of the
DAY STEWART Soviet Union and 17 other countries that
ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S 0 NO WAITING stayed away for various reasons.
THE MAN WHO
KN EW TOO DASCOLA STYLISTS The identity of the final torch bearer
DASCO A STY ISTS - or bearers - was the big mystery all
T~f~1TTlast week, and Peter Ueberroth, Los
M H (PG) Liberty off State ...... 668-9329 Angeles Olympic Organizing Commit.
SUN. 250, 3:00. 515, 7:30, 9:40 Maple Village ........ 761-2733 tee president, said only that it would be
an American.

games
President Reagan, formally opening
the Games, was limited to 17 words: "I
declare open the Olympic Games of Los
Angeles, celebrating the 23rd Olympiad
of the modern era."
BUT IN a pep talk to the U.S. team
before the ceremony, Reagan exhorted
them to "set your sights high." He also
paraphrased a line from one of his
movies, according to remarks prepared
for delivery.
"Do it for yourself, for your families,
for your country. And if I may be a bit
presumptuous, do it for the Gipper."
Three-time Olympian Ed Burke, a
hammer thrower, was chosen by the
captains of the various U.S. teams to
carry the American flag. Edwin Moses,
the U.S. and world record holder in the
400-meter hurdles, was selected to give
the athletes' oath.
In a televised message earlier
Friday, Mayor Tom Bradley said "the
eyes of the world are upon us" as he
urged Los Angeles residents to "put our
best, most neighborly foot forward."

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