LA Coliseum Renovation: New 2024 Olympic Renderings Video

LA Coliseum renovation is afoot, with two phases in the works. A video of the second iteration, designed for the 2024 Summer Olympics, was released on Friday.

After Boston’s 2024 bid for the Summer Olympics fell through, Los Angeles stepped up last year as the United States IOC’s hope for bringing the games back to America.

The plans center around Exposition Park, which previously hosted the Summer Olympics both in 1932 and 1984. But should LA get the nod at the election ceremony in September 2017, a lot of work will need to be done in a little under seven years.

The USC-run LA Coliseum would receive the bulk of the eyeballs, as the planned host of the opening and closing ceremonies, in addition to track and field events.

In 1993, the Coliseum underwent major renovations that saw the playing surface lowered 11 feet as a result of removing the Olympic track.

Should the games return, a track will once again need to be installed at the Coliseum, making renovations tricky.

First, it limits what USC can do in terms of general renovations, which are to take place after the 2017 football season and set to be finished in time for 2019.

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Those changes have required that temporary seating remain in the east end zone, because any structural addition to the Coliseum floor would prevent the re-installation of a track.

Fast forward to the 2024 renovations, and both USC and the US IOC have a dilemma. How exactly do you bring a track back to the Coliseum, when there is already 14 rows of semi-new seats in its place?

The answer according to Friday’s new renovations?

Should the Coliseum host the Olympics for an unprecedented third time, the entire track and playing surface would be suspended, supported by load-bearing beams.

This would allow for additional space for staging, locker rooms and the like. In the new latest video of renderings, there are two access points to the subterranean area.

The first –pictured below– is a stage-like elevator that can traverse both levels. Secondly, there is a ramp and staircase in the closed end of the Coliseum, which would serve as a tunnel.

Here’s the full Coliseum renovation video, via Twitter:

In addition to events at the Coliseum, USC is penciled in to host the pool events, with a temporary aquatics center being built on campus at Dedeaux Field.

Built in 1974 with the sole intention of hosting USC baseball, Dedeaux Field hosting a world class aquatics center is an interesting development to comprehend. It’s also ironic, given that it’s just feet from the site of the old McDonald Swim Stadium, which hosted the swimming events in 1984.

Here’s what the rendering of a masked Dedeaux Field would look like, with the bulk of the temporary seating being in the outfield, and seemingly bleeding into Howard Jones Field, which serves as the practice facility for USC football and Marks Stadium, the home of Trojan tennis.

All in all, should the Olympics be awarded to Los Angeles, USC will play a major role in all aspects of the games.

They could also affect a fair amount of Trojan athletics, with the Coliseum expected to be unusable for as many as six months afterwards, and Dedeaux Field needing to be partially razed.