Who hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932?
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The selection of the host city for the 1932 Summer Olympics was made at the 23rd IOC Session in Rome, Italy, in 1923. Remarkably, the selection process consisted of a single bid, from Los Angeles, and as there were no bids from any other city, Los Angeles was selected by default to host the 1932 Games. read more
The United States has hosted the Summer Olympic Games more times than any other nation: the 1904 Games were held in St. Louis, Missouri; the 1932 and 1984 Games were both held in Los Angeles, California; and the 1996 Games were held in Atlanta, Georgia. read more
The Olympics were still fairly new when the International Olympic Committee met, in 1923, in Rome, to choose the host for the 1932 Games. And Los Angeles was a hick cow-town few people in the world knew or cared about. A real estate entrepreneur named William May Garland was in charge of the bid. read more
