The Gimnasio Olímpico Juan de la Barrera is an indoor arena located in

Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital city, capital and primate city, largest city of Mexico, and the List of North American cities by population, most populous city in North Amer ...

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

. At the

1968 Summer Olympics The 1968 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada) and commonly known as Mexico 1968 ( es, México 1968), were an international multi-sport eve ...

, it hosted the

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Sum ...

competitions, and it is located next to the Olympic pool. It was the home of

La Ola Roja del Distrito Federal The Club Deportivo La Ola del Distrito Federal, also known simply as ''La Ola'' or ''La Ola Roja'' (the red wave) were a professional basketball team based in Mexico City. The team participated in the first edition of the Liga Nacional de Balonce ...

of the LNBP from 2000 to 2007 and the professional

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

team

Capitanes de Ciudad de México The Capitanes de Ciudad de México (English: ''Mexico City Captains'') are a Mexican professional basketball team based in Mexico City, Mexico. The Capitanes competed as a member club in the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional (LNBP) for the ...

from 2017 to 2020. The arena seats 5,242 people in two stand levels. For years, it has been the traditional home of professional basketball in Mexico City.

References

1968 Summer Olympics official report.
Volume 2. Part 1. pp. 72, 74. Venues of the 1968 Summer Olympics Olympic volleyball venues Indoor arenas in Mexico Sports venues in Mexico City Volleyball venues in Mexico Basketball venues in Mexico {{Summer-Olympic-venue-stub