This article is about parks associated with the Olympic Games. For specific parks with this name, see
Olympic Park (disambiguation).
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."[1] 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.
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.
This article is about parks associated with the Olympic Games. For specific parks with this name, see
Olympic Park (disambiguation).
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."[1] 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.
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.