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20040814 Life goes on in the downtown Athens neighborhood of Kolonaki as a woman gets her hair cut at the Ilias Zarbalis saloon while participants in the Olympic Men's Cycling Road Race speed by traveling throughout downtown Athens on the first…

'SUMMER GAMES-TIEBREAK BREAKDOWN' Irini Merleni of the Ukraine, is overcome with emotion after being declared the gold medal winner of the women's 48kg freestyle wrestling match on a tiebreak decision over Chiharu Icho of Japan.

In one of the most touching moments of the '84 games, Pamela McGee gave away her gold medal to her twint sister Paula who didn't make the cut for the USA women's basketball team. Photographed outside the Life Worship Center in Pontiac, MI, where…

Olympic gold medal winning marathon runner Joan Benoit Sameulson is regarded as one of the all-time great marathoners. At age 46 Sameulson wanted to run another but had to withdraw from the Olympic trials this year due to a painful achilles tendon…

Runner Mary Slaney (formerly Mary Decker) photographed on the Oregon coast west of her home in Eugene, Oregon. Slaney lost her shot at Olympic gold in '84 after her infamous collision with Zola Budd in the finals of the 3000m. For Olympic Legacy…

Jeff Float was the first deaf swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal when he and his teammates broke the existing world record in the 800 m freestyle race. He now coaches young swimmers at the Laguna Creek Racquet Club in Elk Grove, California. For…

Mary Lou Retton won the All-around gold medal in women's gymnastics at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, becoming the first American woman ever to win a gold medal in gymnastics. She also won silver medals for Team Vault, and bronze medals for…

Carl Lewis, who won four gold medals in the 84 Olympics, still remembers being booed by the crowd when he passed on four chances to beat the record in the long-jump. He now works as an actor in Los Angeles, appearing in the recent film 'Alien Hunter'…

Rafer Johnson, Olympic decathalon gold medalist and torch bearer at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games photographed in Memorial Coliseum in Exposition Park in Los Angeles under the torch he lit 20 years ago. For Olympic Legacy section looking back at the…

'Stanley's Summer Tour' - Time to let go, Stan. After a sleepless night in Pisek, Czech Republic, with teammate Kubina and the Cup, at 6,15am, while everybody packs for the airport, Stan Neckar stretches out on the cobblestone sidewalk, baguettes…