$4.5-Million Final Olympic Report Issued : Games Posted Profit of $215 Million by Last September, It Shows

Peter V. Ueberroth, former president of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, today presented to the International Olympic Committee a copy of his final official report on the Los Angeles Games, which says they had made a profit of $215 million by last September--with more money coming in.

The glossy, profusely illustrated document cost $4.5 million to produce in only 2,000 copies. The two volumes weigh a total of 38 pounds with 1,552 pages, more than 1,000 color photographs and intricate statistics, down to the number of Grade A eggs served to the athletes: 138,600.

Ueberroth, now commissioner of major league baseball, presented the heavy volumes to the first working meeting of the IOC’s four-day session in the East German capital.

His press aide, Richard Perelman, said that one copy was given to each of the IOC’s 89 members and that a few copies are being put on sale at $500 each but that no more will be printed. An abbreviated summary is to be issued later.

The report describes in detail the events leading up to the Soviet Bloc’s boycott of the Los Angeles Games and the desperate efforts made by the organizers, in public and behind the scenes, to avert it.

No Transfer of Profits

A few IOC members have complained privately that there was no provision for transferring some of the Los Angeles Games’ profits to the IOC or to the 160 national Olympic committees.

Perelman said there is no provision for such payments in the contract between the IOC and the LAOOC. Under this contract, 40% of the Los Angeles profit will go to the U.S. Olympic Committee, 40% will be devoted to youth sports programs in Southern California and 20% will be distributed to participating American sports federations.

The first volume of the report includes statistics on the 106,000 badges issued, architectural drawings of every Olympic site, the layout and furniture of every room in the Olympic village and color illustrations of all printed material--including the hot-dog wrappers.

The book outlines some of the unexpected last-minute problems that faced the organizers, such as the need to issue special uniforms to about 100 pregnant staff members. “Nobody ever thought of that problem before the Games,” Perelman said.

The second volume contains mainly photographs and detailed results of all Olympic events. But there is no picture showing one of the most dramatic incidents in Los Angeles, the controversial collision between America’s Mary Decker and Britain’s Zola Budd in the women’s 3,000-meter race.