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 often 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, etc., will be held on the same site in which the amphitheatre for the track-athletics and cycling will be erected." 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 were split among four "clusters" rather than concentrated in a single Park.
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Olympics City Park Notes1896 Summer Athens National Garden, Athens Also used for the 1906 Intercalated games1900 Summer Paris Bois de Vincennes 1904 Summer St. Louis Louisiana Purchase Exposition fairgrounds Also the site of the concurrent Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Site return for use as classrooms and administrative office for Washington University in St. Louis.1906 Intercalated Games Athens National Gardens of Athens Also used for the 1896 Summer Olympics 1908 Summer London White City Also the site of the concurrent Franco-British Exhibition 1928 Summer Amsterdam Olympic Sportspark 1932 Winter Lake Placid Olympic Center Also used for the 1980 Winter Olympics1932 Summer Los Angeles Exposition Park Also used for the 1984 Summer Olympics. Remains in use today as a public park.1936 Summer Berlin Olympiapark Berlin1948 Summer London Wembley Empire Exhibition Grounds Part of the grounds used for 1923 Wembley Stadium and the current 2007 Wembley Stadium.1952 Winter Oslo Holmenkollen National Arena 1952 Summer Helsinki Eläintarha 1956 Summer Melbourne Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Precinct The Olympic Park Stadium within the precinct was so named in 1934.1960 Winter Squaw Valley Squaw Valley Ski Resort All venues of these games, except McKinney Creek Stadium, were laid out within walking distance of each other.Squaw Valley Organizing Committee (1960)Findling & Pelle (2004) 1960 Summer Rome Foro Italico 1964 Winter Innsbruck OlympiaWorld Innsbruck Also used for the 1976 Winter and the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics. 1964 Summer Tokyo Komazawa Olympic Park and Yoyogi Park 1968 Summer Mexico City Chapultepec, Ciudad Universitaria and Magdalena Mixhuca Sports City 1972 Winter Sapporo Makomanai Park 1972 Summer Munich Olympiapark 1976 Winter Innsbruck OlympiaWorld Innsbruck Also used in the 1964 Winter and 2012 Winter Youth Olympics 1976 Summer Montreal Olympic Park 1980 Winter Lake Placid Olympic Center and Lake Placid Olympic Sports Complex Also used for the 1932 Winter Olympics 1980 Summer Moscow CSKA Moscow, Dynamo Stadium, Krylatskoye Sports Complex, Luzhniki Olympic Complex and Olympiysky Sports Complex 1984 Summer Los Angeles Exposition Park Also used for the 1932 Summer Olympics 1984 Winter Sarajevo Olympic Village, Mojmilo, Koševo Stadium, Zetra Ice Hall, Zetra Ice Rink, Skenderija II Hall 1988 Winter Calgary Canada Olympic Park, Stampede Grounds and University of Calgary 1988 Summer Seoul Olympic Park and Seoul Sports Complex 1992 Summer Barcelona Anella Olímpica 1994 Winter Lillehammer Stampesletta Also used for the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics 1996 Summer Atlanta Centennial Olympic Park Differs from other Olympic parks. Rather than being a complex hosting sports venues used for the games, it was instead a public gathering site constructed for the games, and was not home to any Olympic competition venues. 2000 Summer Sydney Sydney Olympic Park 2002 Winter Salt Lake City Utah Olympic Park 2004 Summer Athens Athens Olympic Sports Complex, Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex, Goudi Olympic Complex and Hellinikon Olympic Complex 2006 Winter Turin Torino Olympic Park 2008 Summer Beijing Olympic Green Also to be used for the 2022 Winter Olympics 2010 WinterVancouverWhistler Olympic Park 2010 Summer (Youth)SingaporeBishan Sports Complex, Kallang Sport Complex, and Toa Payoh Sports & Recreation Centre 2012 Winter (Youth) Innsbruck OlympiaWorld Innsbruck Also used for the 1964 and 1976 Winter Olympics 2012 Summer London Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park 2014 Winter Sochi Sochi Olympic Park 2014 Summer (Youth) Nanjing Nanjing Olympic Sports Center 2016 Winter (Youth) Lillehammer Stampesletta Also used for the 1994 Winter Olympics 2016 Summer Rio de Janeiro Barra Olympic Park and Deodoro Olympic Park 2018 Winter Pyeongchang Gangneung Olympic Park and Alpensia Sports Park 2018 Summer (Youth) Buenos Aires Parque Olímpico de la Juventud 2022 Winter Beijing Olympic Green Also used for the 2008 Summer Olympics 2024 Winter (Youth) Pyeongchang Gangneung Olympic Park and Alpensia Sports Park 2028 Summer Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles Sports Park (Exposition Park, L.A. Live), South Bay Sports Park and Long Beach Sports Park The Downtown Los Angeles Sports Park includes Exposition Park (also used for 1932 and 1984 games)
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