The city of Pasadena has announced that Rose Bowl hosts semi-final and female football matches while the list of 2028 Olympic places continues to take shape before the Games.
The Pasadena agreement with the La28 organizing committee was announced on the same day as the city of Los Angeles and La28 worked through complex places that include the search for a house for two new game sports.
An ad hoc committee of the municipal council has approved updated places presented by La28, the private organization responsible for hosting the 2028 games. The 28 mixed certain locations of sporting events in order to generate income and reduce risks.
A large part of the The revised place plan was revealed during the summerBut the changes in the original gaming agreement concluded when Los Angeles obtained the right to host the 2028 Olympic Games had not yet been approved by the Municipal Council.
The game agreement adjustments include basketball displacement to the Intuit Dome and Olympic swimming at the Sofi stadium and the change of gymnastics to Crypto.com Arena. La28 filed revisions to the plans of last July on March 14, placing Football Flag and the BMO Stadium butt and moving from Pauley Pavilion to Long Beach Arena.
Basketball in the New Inglewood hall which did not exist during the original offer for games allows artistic gymnastics, one of the first events of summer games, to be in front of a crowd of around 20,000 against around 17,000. The city center also has a larger floor space than the forum, which was originally supposed to organize gymnastics competitions.
The initial offer called for a temporary swimming pool to be built on the USC campus to house the Olympic swimming, but the school has rather started to build in a football installation. After the success of the American swimming tests of 2024 in the Lucas oil stadium in Indianapolis, La28 offered Olympic swimming in the Stade de la NFL d’Inglewood which will host a second Super Bowl in 2027.
The use of existing sports halls to reduce expenses while maximizing ticket sales is essential for La28, which has promised to pay the Olympic Games invoice estimated at $ 7 billion thanks to the sale of tickets, business sponsorships, goods and contributions from the international Olympic Committee. But city and states legislators agreed to be a financial security net. The city could be responsible for $ 270 million for any debt for games, with other expenses going to the state, then back to Los Angeles taxpayers.
“We can absolutely not allow ourselves in all circumstances,” said ad hoc president and president of the municipal council, Marquece Harris-Dawson, at the meeting. “We cannot even allow ourselves half, even less the full force. We must therefore make sure that this is done and done well and done in a way like 1984 where the city of the is found with the assets because of the summer games as opposed to the debt. ”
While the 1984 Games have generated a profit of more than $ 250 million, the world’s largest sporting event has taken range in the past four decades. Instead of 21 sports, will welcome 36 Olympic sports in 2028 and the first paralympic games in the United States. The size of the games required to move certain events apart from the city limits, including Inglewood and Long Beach, while adding the San Fernando Valley for the first time.
The Sepulveda basin will now host modern pentathlon, BMX, skateboarding and 3×3 basketball, while the last proposal has moved canoe slalom in an existing place in Oklahoma City, equestrian in Temecula and shoots and para in a place that was not determined outside the city.
In the original game plan offered before the construction of the BMO Stadium, the place was supposed to house preliminary rounds for football. But qualification matches will now be organized in stadiums across the country, as was common during the recent Olympic Games.
We expected that Rose Bowl has long expected to host men’s male and female soccer matches, a plan officially confirmed on Wednesday. The stadium organized events in two previous Olympic Games and emblematic World Cup matches.
The city’s announcement noted that there is more agreements planned to negotiate and sign before 2027 which will dictate exactly how the Olympic events of 2028 will be organized and how they will be funded.
“Pasadena is proud to be a city of place that supports the host city of Los Angeles for the 2028 games and we are impatient to welcome the world at the emblematic stadium of the Rose Bowl. We will make sure that all visitors will appreciate the best possible game experience with our entire city,” said the mayor of Pasadena Victor Mr. Gordo in a press release.
Football of flag, which will make its Olympic debut, and the butt, which has not been a medal sport at the Olympic Games since 1908, will share the BMO Stadium and bring more competition days and more medal matches in the city center. They were among the new sports added to the Olympic program in October 2023 and are not included in the initial release of the hall last summer.
Among the other new Olympic arrivals, the squash and cricket have not yet been placed in places for the 2028 games, while La28 has not finalized the location of baseball or football finals. Softball, which has joined the Olympic program in a joint offer with baseball, will be organized in Oklahoma City, the Women’s College World Series site.
The updated place plan would save around $ 156 million, according to 28. While increasing the total number of tickets during events organized within the city, the new plan will also reduce the percentage of 5%tickets, according to a joint report by the city administration officer and chief legislative analyst of November 12, 2024.
The report called for the 28 to “conduct a study on the independent economy to highlight the planned impacts of the 2028 games on the city and the region, which incorporates the changes of the requested location, added sports disciplines and the lessons learned from the Paris 2024 games.” The report must be submitted to the city of Los Angeles no later than June 30.
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“I know with the first hand that the energy and the inspiration that Los Angeles brings to the world. Look, the 2028 Olympic Games aim to ensure that our city, the creative capital of the world, is at the heart of this global experience,” said Harris-Dawson in a statement. “We will remain focused on our takeover work while investing intelligently and opening opportunities for our communities. We are not only preparing for the world to visit us – we prepare the field to inspire the world, as only Los Angeles can. ”
With games that should start in about three and a half years, the finalization of the plan for sites is an absolute priority before going ahead with other key concerns, including transport and event operations. The full municipal council will vote on the place updated on Friday and the final confirmation of the plan is expected after the examination and approval of the board of directors of the International Olympic Committee on April 9.