FIBA secretary general Andreas Zagklis has toured Intuit Dome, the new home of the Los Angeles Clippers and the venue selected as the site for basketball at the 2028 Summer Olympics. He was impressed. And that’s a promising sign for the next Olympics, now that a record-setting Paris Games are in the books.
United States’ LeBron James, right dunks as France ’s Nicolas Batum walks away during a men’s gold medal basketball game at Bercy Arena at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, in Paris , France . United States’ Stephen Curry reacts after winning a men’s gold medal basketball game against France at Bercy Arena at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, in Paris , France .
“Everybody speaks about it in the most complimentary terms,” Zagklis said Sunday at his end-of-Olympics news conference before the women’s gold-medal game between the U.S. and France. He toured the Intuit Dome site when construction was still underway as part of his duties as a member of the International Olympic Committee’s coordination commission for LA 2028.
Also of note: The building will have a generic name for the Olympics, because corporate names are almost always not permitted by IOC rules. For example, Accor Arena, the official name of the venue where basketball was played in the Paris neighborhood of Bercy, went by Bercy Arena during the Games.
FIBA saw average attendance for group-phase games of about 22,000, up wildly from the average of about 3,000 at Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
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