Hoping the Los Angeles City Council will take the final plunge to make it happen, Pasadena’s Mayor Victor Gordo is excited and hopeful that the Olympic diving events will, come 2028, be held at the city’s Rose Bowl Aquatics Center.

“I’m excited that the Los Angeles City Council’s Olympic Games Ad Hoc Committee has moved us one step closer to seeing the Rose Bowl Aquatics Center host Olympic diving in 2028,” Gordo said in a statement on Thursday, Aug. 28.

“In the weeks ahead, we are hopeful the Los Angeles City Council will take that final step,” he said. “Such a decision would mark an exciting milestone for our historic venue.”

The Rose Bowl Aquatic Center, a nonprofit established in 1990 in Brookside Park, which features two Olympic-size pools and a diving well, would not comment on th

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