SWIMMING TO TAKE PLACE IN SO-FI STADIUM AT 2028 OLYMPICS, WILL BE PUSHED TO WEEK TWO
June 21st, 2024
The swimming-football stadium partnership isn’t done yet.
On Friday, LA28, the organizing committee for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, announced some of the official venues for the upcoming games. They confirmed that swimming would take place in So-Fi stadium, home to the Los Angeles Rams and Chargers. The venue will seat 38,000 people, which will make it the largest swimming venue in Olympic history. However, because the opening ceremony will also take place in So-Fi, both the competition and warm-up pool must be covered at the start of the games and won’t be ready for use the next day, the traditional kickoff of the swimming competition. For this reason, swimming will be moved to the second week of the games, while track and field will move to week one. In years prior, swimming has taken place during week one.
“To put one of those big three Olympic sports in a spectacular venue with the capacity we could have to showcase that sport was frankly just too good an opportunity,” LA28 Casey Wasserman told the New York Times. “I have no doubt that it will be the biggest attended swim meet in this country’s history, and maybe the most spectacular swim meet ever.”
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