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The Juan Escutia Sports Palace hosted the basketball events for the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. The Forum in Inglewood, California, hosted the basketball tournament for the 1984 Summer Olympics held in neighboring Los Angeles. For the Summer Olympics, there are 29 venues that have been or will be used for basketball.
OAKA Basketball Arena [2], previously known as Olympic Indoor Hall of O.A.C.A., is a part of the Spyros Louis Olympic Athletic Center of Athens (Greek: O.A.K.A. «Σπύρος Λούης»). It was completed in 1994 and is the largest indoor venue in Greece. It was used for sporting events at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
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Thanks in part to the effort of Phog Allen [5] [6] —a Kansas Jayhawks collegiate coach—the first Olympic basketball tournament was organized in the 1936 Berlin Olympics on outdoor tennis courts. Dr. Naismith presented the medals to the top three teams. According to the Olympic rules of that time, all of the competitors were amateurs.
The following are lists of all Olympic venues, starting with the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, organized alphabetically, by sport, and by year. As a multi-sport event , competitions held during a given Olympics usually take place in different venues located across the host city and its metropolitan area.
The 6,500-seat hall opened in 1972 to host basketball events for the 1972 Summer Olympics. [3] The arena has been the regular home venue of Bayern Munich basketball club since 2011. [3] The arena's naming rights are currently hold by car manufacturer BMW.
The following is a list of indoor arenas which are currently the home of a professional, semi-professional, or national basketball team (page is in process of being updated). They are ordered by capacity , which is the maximum number of spectators the arena can accommodate for basketball.
Carioca Arena 1 (Portuguese: Arena Carioca 1) is an indoor stadium in Barra da Tijuca in the west zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The venue hosted basketball at the 2016 Summer Olympics as well as wheelchair basketball and wheelchair rugby at the 2016 Summer Paralympics .