Los Angeles 1984: Olympic Venues Overview
Twenty-six competition venues were used for the Olympic Games Los Angeles 1984, 21 of which remain in use. Twenty of the competition venues were existing, three were new and three were temporary. Two venues have been demolished. Eleven of the venues were outside Los Angeles County. The venues that are still in use host sporting, cultural and leisure activities and are accessed by athletes of all levels, from high-performance to grassroots.
For example, the emblematic Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is home to the University of Southern California (USC) American football team. Likewise, the Uytengsu Aquatics Center hosts regional and national aquatics events and is home to the USC swimming and diving teams. Also, the Prado Olympic Shooting Park has continued to function as a shooting venue, and offers world-class facilities for elite sport and military training as well as sports initiation courses.
Two venues were re-purposed: the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena and the Olympic Velodrome. The first hosted the boxing Olympic events during the 1984 Games and was later used as a multipurpose sports facility until 2016, when it was demolished and transformed in to a football stadium, home of the Los Angeles Football Club. The Olympic Velodrome, purpose built for the track cycling Olympic events of 1984, hosted sports and entertainment events up to 2002 when it was demolished to become the home stadium of the Los Angeles Galaxy Football Club; it was replaced by an indoor velodrome in the same sports complex, which hosts various track cycling programmes.
The Rose Bowl Stadium along with the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum hosted their second Olympic Games after the 1932 edition.