Editing 1932 Summer Olympics (section)

===Facilities and opening ceremony===
[[File:The Australian Olympic Team at the Olympic Stadium, Los Angeles, 1932 - photographer unknown.jpg|thumb|220px|The Australian Olympic Team at the Olympic Stadium, Los Angeles, 1932]]
[[File:Lauri Lehtinen and Ralph Hill 1932.jpg|thumb|[[Lauri Lehtinen]] (left) and [[Ralph Hill (runner)|Ralph Hill]] finishing the 5000 m race at the 1932 Olympics]]
[[Charles Curtis]] became the first and only [[Vice President of the United States|U.S. Vice President]] to inaugurate the [[Olympic Games]]. An [[Olympic Village]] was built for the first time and became a model for future games, in [[Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles|Baldwin Hills]], occupied by male athletes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.baldwinhills.info/olympicvillage.php|title=1932 Los Angeles Olympic Athlete's Village - Baldwin Hills- Baldwin Hills Information|access-date=July 22, 2019|archive-date=December 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201208202059/http://www.baldwinhills.info/olympicvillage.php|url-status=live}}</ref> Female athletes were housed at the Chapman Park Hotel on [[Wilshire Boulevard]]. Tenth Street, a major thoroughfare in Los Angeles, was renamed [[Olympic Boulevard (Los Angeles)|Olympic Boulevard]] in honor of the Games of the Tenth Olympiad. The [[Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum]] was known in 1932 as ''Olympic Stadium''.

The victory podium was used for the first time at the summer games (a podium was also used earlier in the year at the [[1932 Winter Olympics]] in Lake Placid).<ref name=NPS-LANDMARK>[http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1884&ResourceType=Structure Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071114222329/http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1884&ResourceType=Structure |date=November 14, 2007 }}, National Landmarks Program, National Park Service, ''Accessed November 12, 2007.''</ref><ref name=Podium>Martin, D. E., Martin, D. A., & Gynn, R. W. (2000). The Olympic Marathon. Human Kinetics. p. 146.</ref>{{efn|name=IOC-LETTER|In a letter dated May 1931, the IOC president, Count Henri de Baillet-Latour, advised the organizing committees of both Summer and Winter games that athletes should "stand on three pedestals, with the centre one higher than the two others." See Martin (2000) and Olympic.org article "1932: THE PODIUM MAKES ITS OLYMPIC DEBUT".}} An [[Olympic mascot]], Scottish Terrier [[Smoky (Olympic mascot)|Smoky]], was featured for the first time in history, albeit unofficially.