The City will celebrate three decades of Olympic history at the Symphony in the Cities and Prelude in the Park event on Saturday, July 26 and will culminate the milestone anniversary at 3:30 p.m. on July 29 by unveiling new monument walls placed at the finish line along Olympiad road.
The individual men’s and women’s road race put Mission Viejo on the international stage as the first Olympic event during the 1984 Olympics. The women’s race marked the first time women raced on road in an Olympic event.
Connie Carpenter –Phinney won the gold and Rebecca Twigg took home the silver. The women’s race took two hours, 11 minutes and 40 seconds and included five laps around the 9.85-mile course. Alexi Grewal captured the gold medal in the Men’s road race.
That 12-lap race took four hours, 59 minutes and 57 seconds. Both races were riveting and won by the United States with only minutes to spare.
The start/finish line is situated just north of Lake Mission Viejo on Olympiad Road. The course winds north on Marguerite Parkway then west on Mustang Run; south on Crucero; south on Hildago; east on Vista Del Lago; south on Marguerite Parkway; east on La Paz; and finally north on Olympiad Road.
The public is invited to mark the celebrations at the Symphony in the Cities, Prelude in the Park event on July 26 and the 3:30 p.m. monument unveiling July 29 on Olympiad Road.
