Venues of the 1984 Summer Olympics lessons learned helped Los Angeles in bidding for the 1980 Summer Olympics though this time they would lose out to Moscow for the 1980 Summer Olympics. Los Angeles bid for the 1984 Summer Olympics with a minimal amount of new construction costs and a heavy reliance on corporate sponsorships (unlike Montreal 76 and Moscow 80). Bid studies were done in Los Angeles between 1975 and 1978. The city was awarded the 1984 Games in 1978 by the IOC since they were the sole bidder. In 1959, the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena was completed. The following year, it hosted the
United States at the 1984 Summer Olympics Breaststroke Men's 200m Breaststroke Men's 100m Butterfly Men's 200m Butterfly Men's 200m Individual Medley Men's 400m Individual Medley Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay Men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay Women's 100m Freestyle Women's 200m Freestyle Women's 400m Freestyle Women's 800m Freestyle Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay Women's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay Women's 100m Backstroke Women's 200m Backstroke Women's 200m Individual Medley Women's 400m Individual Medley United States at the 1984 Summer Olympics The United States was the host nation of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los