Los Angeles 2028 will invest 100 million to renovate its athletics track

The organizing committee of Los Angeles Games 2028 designed a strategic plan to optimize economic resources as much as possible and take advantage of existing venues from previous editions or other sporting events. The California city will host the Games for third time in its historyafter doing so in 1932 and 1984, with one of its great symbols as a link, the stadium Memorial Coliseum have the capacity for 77,000 viewers. Located between the neighborhoods of Inglewood and Downtown, this emblematic stadium that has hosted the opening ceremonies of past Games and athletics events is a far cry from the modernity of new venues such as SoFi Stadium or the Rose Bowl of Pasadena, but popular pressure meant it was left out of the 2028 program The concepts of ‘history’ and ‘tradition’ are a rare commodity in the United States and Los Angeles, unlike the Paris 2024 Games which presented the monumental stage already. was an absolute success. In this way, the Memorial Coliseum will be the first stadium in history to host three Olympics.

He Memorial Coliseum It was used as a team headquarters Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers of American football for more than 70 years and its playing field was modified to accommodate a wider range of spectators, but lost the ability to organize athletics events. To do this, the organization must invest 100 million dollars to create something new playground which follows the dimensions and that is located above the current one with a temporary structure with hundreds of columns. The interior space that will remain between the two playing fields will be used to create a warm-up area for athletes going to the call room.

Because of the voices that contradict it millionaire investment To create a temporary structure, the organization argued that the cost of building a new stadium from scratch would be much higher. This work, which will be an engineering challenge, will have to wait until 2027when the regular season of the university football team of USC. It has been a construction against the clock for seven months and there is pressure to arrive in time for the start of the Games, which are scheduled for July 14, 2028. A situation that would mean that traditional synthetic final test competitions could not be held. Furthermore, the great novelty of these Games is the change of its dates to the second week of swimming, traditionally found in the first. In this way, athletics will open the Games and there will be no margin for error in the final structure.