2023-06-12 19:54:09
As the deadline for the 2028 Summer Games approaches, the map of venues is being refined. Also, following the relocation of the rowing and canoe-kayak sprint events, the slalom might in turn leave the site initially envisaged to start near Oklahoma City (Oklahoma, United States) nearly 2,200 kilometers from California.
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Lhe organizers of the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games continue their optimization efforts for a concept which, as with any host of the event, evolves between the bid phase and the operational delivery phase of the Games.
Also, just over five years from the opening of the 2028 Olympics, a new change might soon be made in the mapping of the sites and equipment called upon to host the competitions.
In fact, as the American press is currently reporting, the Organizing Committee chaired by Casey Wasserman recently engaged in close discussions with the management of the existing sports complex of Riversport Rapids Whitewater Center in Oklahoma City, in the State of Oklahoma, in order to consider – if necessary – the holding of the canoe-kayak slalom events.
With this project, the aforementioned events would thus leave the Los Angeles region where they were initially to integrate a temporary structure of the Valley Sports Park pour in fine win an existing site recognized as an official training site by the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) since 2009.
This relocation outside the State of California – certainly nearly 2,200 kilometers further east – would above all have the advantage of mobilizing a structure that has already proven itself in the regular organization of major meetings for the discipline supervised by the International Canoe Federation (ICF).
In three years, the Oklahoma site must also host the Canoe-Kayak Slalom World Championships which would constitute – in the event of the pool being integrated into the system for the 2028 Games – a kind of dress rehearsal and test before the arrival of the Olympic competitions.
If the ongoing discussions should lead to a formal decision from the organizers very soon, the site initially chosen by LA 2024 – when the “City of Angels” aimed to host the 2024 Games – would still remain a facility intended to receive events in 2028, with equestrian competitions and sports shooting respectively.
For LA 2028, the relocation of canoe-kayak slalom would take place months following a similar decision led Californian organizers to move the rowing and canoe-kayak sprint events of Lake Perris towards history Long Beach Marine Stadiumsouth of Los Angeles.
In the past, as part of the last edition of the Summer Games organized on American soil, the holding of canoe-kayak competitions had already been split into two.
The rowing and sprint events then took place on the site of Lake Lanierregarding 80 kilometers north of Atlanta (Georgia), while the slalom had been hosted within theOcoee Whitewater Center of Ducktown in the State of Tennessee, nearly 175 kilometers from the Host City.
For 2028, the possible integration of Oklahoma in the mapping of the sites would be in a way a nod to the Olympic ambition of the State which, with Tulsa, had been represented in the internal primary set up by the American Olympic authorities, from 2013, in view of the 2024 Games.
The second largest city in the state had then counted among the ten contenders who responded to the call of the Gamesa Preparatory Committee having even been installed in the process.
However, the weaknesses of the project – particularly in terms of accommodation and sports venues – had not allowed Oklahoma’s application to be eligible for the American designation, unlike Los Angeles, Boston (Massachusetts), San Francisco (California) and Washington (District of Columbia) who had found themselves on the short-list of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) in June 2014.
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