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It also will host the dive teams of Australia, France, Canada, Germany and a delegation from USA Diving at the Marguerite Aquatics Complex.<\/p>\n<p>Several of those teams will conduct training camps in California in 2026 and 2027 as preparation for their staging for the 2028 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are so excited to essentially be a significant training hub in the world,\u201d Mission Viejo Mayor <strong>Robert Ruesch<\/strong> said in a press release. \u201cWe cannot wait to have the German, Canadian, Dutch, Aussie, French and American athletes call Mission Viejo their home away from home in 2028.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mission Viejo was an active participant in the 1984 Olympics, hosting the men\u2019 and women\u2019s cycling road races. The 2028 event won\u2019t venture that far down Interstate 5, but the city\u2019s aquatics facilities will play a role in the preparation.<\/p>\n<p>It furthers Mission Viejo\u2019s goal to be \u201ca sports mecca and hub for sports and events tourism\u201d that has been at the heart of Nadadores <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gomotionapp.com\/team\/scmvn\/page\/team-info\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">since the club was founded in 1968<\/a>. Its swim club, one of the most successful in the United States, has had a representative at each Olympics since 1976.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe selected Mission Viejo for our pre-Olympic training camp because its world-class facilities offer the ideal environment for our athletes, coaches, and staff to focus, train, and build momentum toward the Games,\u201d said <strong>Andree Pouliot-Deschamps,<\/strong> the senior director of elite performance at Diving Canada. \u201cHaving visited before, we were impressed by the warm welcome and exceptional hospitality. Mission Viejo provides the perfect setting to prepare our team for success at Los Angeles 2028.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have found our dream training facility to optimally prepare for the 2028 Olympic Games,\u201d Diving Germany national head coach <strong>Christoph Bohm<\/strong> said. \u201cWe are particularly pleased that we will be able to prepare together with other major diving nations such as Australia and, above all, the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission Viejo to Host Five Dive Teams Ahead of 2028 Olympics Mission Viejo Nadadores announced this week that it has entered agreements to host athletes from five countries for training<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8367,"featured_media":142138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[70617,63614,3288,27273],"class_list":["post-625528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diving","tag-2028-olympic-games-coverage-los-angeles","tag-2028-olympics","tag-mission-viejo","tag-mission-viejo-nadadores"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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