1932-DATED BRASS 1/2 LA OLYMPICS DISCUS MS 65 NGC

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1932-DATED BRASS 1/2 LA OLYMPICS DISCUS MS 65 NGC
The
men's discus throw
event at the 1932 Olympic Games took place August 3.
[1]
Eighteen athletes from 11 nations competed.
[2]
The 1930 Olympic Congress in Berlin had reduced the limit from 4 athletes per NOC to 3 athletes.
[3]
The event was won by
John Anderson
of the United States, the nation's third consecutive and sixth overall victory in the men's discus throw.
Henri LaBorde
took silver, marking the first time since 1908 that the same nation had the top two discus throwers.
Paul Winter
was the bronze medalist, earning France's first discus medal. Finland's four-Games podium streak ended, while the United States extended its streak to all nine appearances of the event.
The 1932 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the X Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event that was held from July 30 to August 14, 1932, in
Los Angeles
,
California
, United States.
The Games were held during the worldwide
Great Depression
and some nations were unable to pay for the trip to Los Angeles;
37
nations competed compared to
46
in the
1928 Summer Olympics
in
Amsterdam
. Even
U.S. President
Herbert Hoover
did not attend the Games.
[2]
Host city selection
[
edit
]
The selection of the host city for the 1932 Summer Olympics was made at the 23rd IOC Session in
Rome
, Italy, in 1923.
[3]
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.
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