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Title
Greg Louganis focusing on acting career
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator
Gulker, Chris
Date Created and/or Issued
1985
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Title supplied by cataloger.; Photograph was also used for an article dated July 20, 1988 and September 16, 1989.
By the age of 16, Greg Louganis had won his first Olympic medal. Eight years later, at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, he won gold in both the platform and springboard events, becoming the first man in 56 years to do so. He repeated the feat at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. In 1994, Louganis publicly acknowledged his homosexuality, adding his name to the short list of prominent gay athletes.
Photograph dated April 22, 1985 shows Olympic medalist Greg Louganis during an interview with Jeannine Stein at his Laguna Beach condo. Louganis shares that he wants to concentrate on an acting career.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;36 x 29 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00052598
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box Louganis, Greg
CARL0005564386
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/23417
Subject
Louganis, Greg,--1960-
Divers--United States
Olympic athletes--United States
Men--California--Laguna Beach
Dwellings--California--Laguna Beach
Laguna Beach (Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Time Period
1981-1990

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