If Los Angeles gets the 2024 Olympics, USC will be a prime location and here are a couple renderings. The first is the Coliseum, which features a track that is actually elevated above the current football field and would allow for warm-up areas underneath. And who pays for those massive video boards above the pressbox?
Then there is the swim stadium. Somewhere under that structure is Dedeaux Field. Yes, really. Don’t ask how the pool sits above the baseball field. I can see USC coaches already hoping another city gets the Olympics in 2024.
New design for the Coli sucks – scrap that sucker and get back to the drawing board. We want MORE SEATS than that design provides. Don’t lose out to the Big House, the Horse Shoe, Noxville, Tuscaloosa, etc.
Zzzzzzzz
Make the new soccer stadium where the Sports Arena is a dual-purpose baseball/soccer. I want the Olympics.
We’ll get them for you, baby brother
If anyone wants to see what the Olympics are really about, check out the recent edition of Real Sports with Bryant Gumble, because it will change your mind about the IOC and the Olympics. If you think the Clintons are corrupt, they don’t hold a candle to the people who run the IOC. If any city shells out the money and perks that these criminals want the leaders of that city needs their head examined.
The IOC and the USOC are 2 Diff bodies.
I get that. But it’s the IOC who makes the final call on what city gets the games and who doesn’t. The more money that is paid to these criminals increases the chances of that city being selected, just like the FIFA World Cup.
I find it nearly impossible to believe that you can work is sports journalism, at a time where stories about the cost of the Rio games are coming out daily, and not know that the organizing committee of the host nation is the one that is on the hook for the improvements to venues. Did you think that the USOOC was going to stick the Cardinal & Gold members with the bill or that they were somehow going to amortize the costs to the season tickets? Try harder!
Apparently you weren’t around the last time the Olympics were held in LA and Time Magazine Man of the Year Peter Ueberroth ran them so well they made money without sticking USC, or anyone else.
Per Alyssa Walker: “What Los Angeles was able to do was bring some foresight to the hosting of the games by looking at what will be left for the city after the athletes, press, and spectators have gone home. Not every city to host the games since has learned this lesson, of course. But Los Angeles became a model for cities like Barcelona (1992) and Atlanta (1996), which orchestrated both successful games and positive development which revitalized their urban cores, and not at the expense of residents. Although other Olympic cities have been profitable, it remains the most financially successful Olympic games—by far.”
Was here and yes, you’re proving my point. Peter Uberoth, heading up the USOOC, largely due to corporate sponsorship, was able to get all the venues built or upgraded and they actually turned a small profit in ’84. Wolf, seems to think that SC would have to pay for any improvements because, well, um, he tries to take any tiny bit of news and paint it in a bad light, even if he just has to make things up that aren’t even close to true.
There is no need to waste that much space on a pool that’s gonna be used for 2 weeks. Plus there aren’t that many people that care about Olympic water sports anyway. Also there was a track around the coliseum from the 84 Olympics, and the Trojans obliderated that to make space for football, doubt they’ll wanna bring that back.
Other than swimming being one of the most popular parts of the Olympics…….
1984 Olympic Swimming tickets were 1 of the hottest next to Gymnastics.
How much for the 16 foot high electrified barbed wire fence around campus?
I thought the swimming would be in the new soccer stadium? That’s what the original proposal had. They were gonna do water polo at UCLA in the Tennis Center. Seems like it would be easier to erect temp. stands around existing pools (a la 1984) but maybe they are getting deals on above ground pools from Home Depot.
There were 5 keys to the profitable success of the 1984 Games.
1. The use of a number of existing venues. Preventing the need for large capital expenditures
2. The use of hundreds of volunteers. Preventing the need for high labor cost.
3. Revenue from the assigning of official licensees, sponsors, and advertisers.
4 the massive increase in the number of event tickets made available and sold in comparison to past Olympics.
5. Television network broadcast rights fees that were at an open bid.