SportsTravel Names Olympic Swimming Trials Greatest Newbie Occasion, Indianapolis Greatest Host Metropolis
The historic 2024 U.S. Olympic Crew Trials in Indianapolis remains to be on the minds of swim followers and vacationers throughout the nation.
The occasion received the 2024 SportsTravel Award for finest newbie occasion this week in Anaheim.
The awards have been a part of the TEAMS (Journey, Evens and Administration in Sports activities) 2024 Convention and Expo honoring the perfect occasions, venues and host cities within the nation.
The Olympic swimming trials passed off at Lucas Oil Stadium, the primary swimming occasion staged in an NFL stadium. Throughout 17 periods, the stadium noticed a median of 16,000 followers per session, maxing at 22,209 on June 19 for the most important swim meet in historical past.
Greater than 250,000 attended fan occasions in and round Lucas Oil Stadium as properly, together with the AquaZone.
“We’re pleased with the work executed to execute the world’s largest and most fun swim meet in Indianapolis in June,” Shana Ferguson, COO and interim CEO of USA Swimming mentioned. “We owe a depth of gratitude to the membership of USA Swimming, hundreds of volunteers, and the group of Indianapolis for serving to us execute a meet the perfect athletes on the earth deserved.”
Indianapolis was additionally named Greatest Host Metropolis of the 12 months. Since July of 2023, Indianapolis has hosted occasions that complete an estimated $500 million in financial impression, together with the 2023 Massive Ten Soccer Championship, the 2024 NBA All-Star Weekend, the 2024 NFL Mix, 2024 NCAA Division I Males’s Basketball First and Second Rounds, and the 2024 U.S. Olympic Crew Trials – Swimming.
The SportsTravel Awards are nominated and voted on by the readers of SportsTravel. Standards for nomination and voting for the 2024 SportsTravel Awards program included occasions that occurred or venues that opened between August 1, 2023, and July 31, 2024.
“We’ve seen unimaginable developments in girls’s sports activities particularly, which is indicative in our readers recognizing the most important sports activities occasion for ladies ever held and the primary stadium constructed particularly for a girls’s skilled crew,” mentioned Jason Gewirtz, vice chairman of the Sports activities Division of Northstar Conferences Group, which publishes SportsTravel. “However all of our winners broke new floor in sporting occasions whether or not on the skilled, collegiate or newbie stage. The sports-event trade is robust, and our roster of winners displays that extraordinary progress.”
