The Games of the XXIII Olympiad open in Los
Angeles on 28 July and in the weeks that follow more people than ever before will see, on worldwide television, the extension of the dream of the founder of the modern Olympic Games,
Baron Pierre de Coubertin. How is Los Angeles planning to cope with its second staging of the Games? And how far have the Californians set aside the ideals of the Frenchman? Liam Nolan reports.
Producer COLIN MORRISON