All told, India won six medals: one bronze in each of women's flyweight boxing and women's singles badmintion, silver and bronze in men's freestyle wrestling (66g and 60kg), silver in men's 25m pistol, and bronze in men's 10m air rifle.

Pakistan sent 41 athletes to London but did not medal.

The '84 L.A. Games came on the heels of nearly disastrous shows the previous three cycles. It was only eight years prior to the '84 LA Games that Denver actually declined to host the 1976 Winter Olympics after having first successfully bid for them, which compelled the IOC into a rather hasty relocation to Innsbruck, Austria.

That same year, Montreal was pushed to the brink of financial insolvency when it hosted the '76 Summer Games. The city's Olympic Stadium is one of the most beautiful ever constructed for the Olympics; unfortunately, construction on the facility was only completed after the Games had already concluded.

And of course, we all know the stories of the deadly terrorist attack on the Israeli team at the 1972 Munich Olympics and the U.S.-led boycott of the 1980 Moscow Games in the immediate aftermath of the Soviet invasion and occupation of Afghanistan.

Suffice to say that by the late 1970s and early '80s, the Olympic Games were seen by most people around the world as a white elephant, a serious money-losing proposition.

Further, the IOC originally awarded the '84 Summer Games were to Teheran back in 1977, and that bid became moot two years later with the domestic upheavals that brought the ayatollahs to power in Iran. Some were understandably questioning whether the Olympics could even survive.

Thus, the IOC in 1980 pretty much awarded the '84 Games to the Los Angeles metropolitian area by default, because nobody else wanted them. The facilities were already in place, and to their credit, Angelenos pulled together to be gracious hosts for a great games.

What could have been a disastrous turn when the Soviet Union decided to engage in a retaliatory boycott for their '80 embarrassment, was saved by the equally surprising announcement that China had accepted the IOC's and United States' invitation to participate for the first time since 1932, which coincidentally were also held in Los Angeles.

So really, it was the '84 LA Games that made the Olympics fashionable again, and and re-launched the franchise to become the spectacle it is today.

Also the version someone did of I Am the Walrus and the goofy costumed dancers was worthy.  Ditto the video appearance of Lennon singing Imagine from forty years ago.