US Olympic Complex

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• So you think your local fitness center is state-of-the-art? Check out the 37-acre United States Olympic Complex, a sophisticated center where thousands of athletes train each year in a variety of Olympic sports. Free guided tours, available daily, take about an hour, and include a film depicting the U.S. Olympic effort. Visitors may also see athletes in training. The visitor center includes the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame, interactive kiosks on Olympics subjects, various other displays, and a gift shop that sells Olympic-logo merchandise.

  The complex includes the Olympic Sports Center I, with five gymnasiums and a weight-training room; Sports Center II, which accommodates 14 sports; the Indoor Shooting Center, the largest facility of its kind in the Western Hemisphere, with areas for rifle and pistol shooting, rapid-fire and women's sport pistol bays, running-target rifle ranges, and air-rifle and pistol-fire points; and the Aquatics Center, which contains a 50-by-25-meter pool with two movable bulkheads, 10 50m and 20 25m lanes, and more than 800,000 gallons of water. The U.S. Olympic Committee also operates the 7-Eleven Velodrome, with a banked track for bicycle and roller speed skating, about 1 mile south of the Olympic Complex, in Memorial Park off Union Boulevard. Olympic figure skaters train at the World Arena, southwest of downtown. Allow 1 to 2 hours.

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