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If LA 1984 Olympics were not boycotted, what would have been the results?


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1 hour ago, rafalgorka said:

Those events were easy, just comparing times, points etc.

 

Last 2 events on day 1 would be more difficult - M and W Individual Road Races

 

Men

LA - 1. Alexi Grewal USA 2. Steve Bauer CAN 3. Dag Otto Lauritzen NOR

FR - 1. Alexandr Zinovyev URS 2. Uwe Raab GDR 3. Andrzej Mierzejewski POL

 

Hard to compare.... Any suggestions?

 

Women

LA - 1. Connie Carpenter USA 2. Rebecca Twigg USA 3. Sandra Schumacher FRG

FR - not contested

The races would have been much different tactically.

How about this?

Men 1 Raab 2 Ludwig 3 Bauer

Women 1 Canins 2 Longo 3 Twigg

4 hours ago, Dragon said:

I wonder what the results would look like if they could have retested the urine samples.:facepalm:

the wonderful Eighties...:rolleyes:

13 minutes ago, Dragon said:

The races would have been much different tactically.

How about this?

Men 1 Raab 2 Ludwig 3 Bauer

Women 1 Canins 2 Longo 3 Twigg

only if the race would have been full of climbing (in this case, no way Twigg would be 3rd).

otherwise, no way Canins would have made the podium.

 

I agree on the men's race.

Just now, phelps said:

only if the race would have been full of climbing (in this case, no way Twigg would be 3rd).

otherwise, no way Canins would have made the podium.

 

I agree on the men's race.

Actually that reminds me, it was a very flat highway wasn't it? I withdraw the prediction for the women's race

2 minutes ago, Dragon said:

Actually that reminds me, it was a very flat highway wasn't it? I withdraw the prediction for the women's race

yeah, and the fact that Carpenter and Twigg went 1 & 2 is there to confirm that it was basically a sprinters' race.

 

If I remember well, there's also a good segment of that race in the official film of LA '84. (time to have a re-watch, I guess :lol:).

Time to finish day 1 in LA (not-boycotted) 1984 games.

 

In cycling I think it could look like that:


W race was not contested in Friendship Games (i don't know why, maybe in the 80s women's road cycling wasn't that popular among these NOCs) so i think we can just add our real LA results to our day 1 summary.

 

In M race Grewal & Bauer finished 1 and 2 at the same time, so let's just imagine they could go that way even if there were some GDR and URS riders in the mix as well. I would say bronze medal for Friendships winner Alexandr Zinovyev (who finished with the s.t. as Raab and Mierzejewski there).

 

And that's it, day 1 is done.

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LA 1984 day 1 summary


Medal table (9 events)

 

:USA 4-2-3---9

:URS 2-1-2---5

:BUL 1-1-0---2

:GDR 1-1-0---2

:GER 1-0-2---3

:CAN 0-3-0---3

:CHN 0-1-1---2

:AUS 0-0-2---2

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From now on, i wlll try to do it day by day, according to LA 1984 schedule.

 

Day 2 events were:

 

Cycling Track - Men's Individual Time Trial (can't understand why this isn't an olympic event anymore, so fun to watch)

Shooting - Men's 50m Rifle Prone

Swimming - Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay

Swimming - Men's 100m Butterfly

Swimming - Men's 400m Individual Medley

Swimming - Women's 200m Freestyle

Swimming - Women's 200m Breaststroke

Weightlifting - Men's 56kg (Bantamweight)

 

 

EDIT: there was M 400 IM, not M 200 IM on day 2 in LA 1984, my mistake...

Edited by rafalgorka

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