Column: Promise from Los Angeles is an Olympics on the cheap
The last time Los Angeles hosted an Olympics, the city won the games largely because it promised to do them on the cheap.
The 1984 Games were a success, even with the Soviet Union and others boycotting. Peter Ueberroth and his team delivered on their promise of bare-bones games, and 32 years later the surplus keeps paying dividends for Southern California sports through the well-funded LA84 Foundation.
Now Los Angeles wants to do it again.