Olympic Park
An Olympic Park is a sports campus for hosting the Olympic Games. Typically it contains the Olympic Stadium and the International Broadcast Centre. It may also contain the Olympic Village or some of the other sports venues, such as the aquatics complex in the case of the summer games, or the main ice hockey rink for the winter games. The Olympic Park is part of the "legacy" which provides benefit to the host city after the games have ended. As such it may subsequently include an urban park and a museum or similar commemoration of the games that were hosted there.
The 1908 Olympic organising committee specified "As far as possible all the competitions, including swimming, archery, fencing, wrestling, &c., will be held on the same site in which the amphitheatre for the track-athletics and cycling will be erected."[1] Not every games has a centralised complex of this type. The 1992 and 2010 Winter Games had widely dispersed venues; "Whistler Olympic Park" was the venue for the nordic skiing events in 2010. Venues of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro will be split among four "clusters" rather than concentrated in a single Park.
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| Olympics | City | Park | Notes | |
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| 1908 Summer | London | White City | Also the venue for the Franco-British Exhibition | |
| 1956 Summer | Melbourne | Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Precinct | The Olympic Park Stadium within the precinct was so named in 1934.[2] | |
| 1960 Summer | Rome | Foro Italico | ||
| 1964 Summer | Tokyo | Meiji Olympic Park | ||
| 1968 Summer | Mexico City | Magdalena Mixhuca Sports City | ||
| 1972 Summer | Munich | Olympiapark | ||
| 1976 Summer | Montreal | Olympic Park | ||
| 1980 Summer | Moscow | Luzhniki Olympic Complex | ||
| 1988 Winter | Calgary | Canada Olympic Park | ||
| 1988 Summer | Seoul | Olympic Park | ||
| 1992 Summer | Barcelona | Anella Olímpica | ||
| 1994 Winter | Lillehammer | Stampesletta | ||
| 1996 Summer | Atlanta | Centennial Olympic Park | ||
| 2000 Summer | Sydney | Olympic Park | ||
| 2002 Winter | Salt Lake City | Utah Olympic Park | ||
| 2004 Summer | Athens | Olympic Sports Complex | ||
| 2006 Winter | Turin | Olympic Park | ||
| 2008 Summer | Beijing | Olympic Green | ||
| 2012 Summer | London | Olympic Park | To be renamed the Queen Elizabeth Olympic park in 2013. | |
| 2016 Summer | Rio de Janeiro | Parque Olímpico do Rio |
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- ^ Cooke, Theodore Andrea (May 1909). "The Fourth Olympiad; being the Official Report of the Olympic Games of 1908". British Olympic Association. p. 25. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1908/1908.pdf#page=33. Retrieved 1 August 2010.
- ^ "Melbourne & Olympic Parks: 1909-2009". Melbourne & Olympic Parks. http://www.mopt.com.au/PortalData/1/Resources//100_Year_History_PDF_for_website.pdf. Retrieved 1 August 2010.
