Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium - Washington, DC - Modern Olympic Venues on Waymarking.com

Taken from Wikipedia, "Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, commonly known as RFK Stadium and originally named District of Columbia Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in Washington, D.C., located about two miles (3 km) due east of the U.S. Capitol building. RFK Stadium has been home to an NFL team, two Major League Baseball teams, eight professional soccer teams, a college football team, a bowl game and a USFL team. It has hosted dozens of major soccer games including men's and women's World Cup matches, nine men's and women's first-round soccer games in the 1996 Summer Olumpics and numerous American friendlies and World Cup qualifying matches. It has also hosted college football, college soccer, baseball exhibitions, boxing matches, a cycling race, a Grand Prix, marathons and dozens of major concerts and events.

RFK was the first major stadium designed specifically as a multi-sport facility for both football and baseball. Although there were stadiums that served this purpose before, such as Forbes Field in Pittsburgh (1909), Cleveland Municipal Stadium (1932), Baltimore's Memorial Stadium (1950), New York's Yankee Stadium (1923) and Polo Grounds (1890), as well as Chicago's Wrigley Field (1914) and Comiskey Park (1910), RFK was one of the first to employ what became known as the "cookie-cutter" design.

It is owned and operated by Events DC (the successor agency to the DC Armory Board), a quasi-public organization affiliated with the city government under a long-term lease from the National Park Service, which owns the land. The lease expires in 2038."

Olympic Games: Atlanta Summer 1996 Sport held at venue: Football (Soccer) Start and/or Finish: Not Aplicable Web Address with Additional Details: [Web Link] Reference Supporting Olympic Use: Website Current Use: Multiuse Olympic Games No 2: Not listed Olympic Games No 3: Not listed Sport held at venue No 2: Not listed Additional sport(s) held at venue: Not listed Details of Reference Supporting Olympic Use: Not listed Parking Area: Not Listed

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