Estadio Olímpico Universitario was used for all Athletics (also 20 km and 50 km walk) competitions and also for the opening and closing cerimonies fof the 1968 Summer Olympics. Additinally some Equestrian events took place here, namely the jumping team.
It was built in 1952 and by then it was the largest stadium in Mexico, with capacity for 72.000 spectators.
It's located in the university campus which by the way is an UNESCO World Heritage Site amd it's currenlty the home stadium of Universidad Nacional and American football team Pumas CU.
Unfortunately visitors will have to see it from a distance as the fences are placed a considerable distance away from the venue.
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"It is the work of architects Augusto Pérez, Raúl Salinas and Jorge Bravo Moro. The "Estadio Universitario, original name, was built specifically for the former practice of football.
On the east side of University Olympic Stadium, is a mural by Diego Rivera, called "The University, the Mexican family, peace and youth sports. In the construction of the relief in natural colored stones shows the university shield, with the condor and the eagle on a cactus. Under their wings outstretched, Rivera placed three figures representing the family: the father and the mother giving the dove of peace to his son. At the extremes are two gigantic figures that correspond to some athletes, male and female, who light the torch of Olympic flame. A huge feathered serpent, the symbolic image of the pre-Hispanic god Quetzalcoatl, complements the composition at the bottom.
Diego Rivera had planned to cover the entire outside of the stadium with designs similar to this, but the artist's death prevented him.
The asymmetric shape of the stands of the stadium-side with the more developed west-emphasizes the final composition of the joint project of the University City, which finished off its axis and principal, the stands closest to the Avenida Insurgentes, emphasizes the sense league stadium to the rest of the set.
Much like the Olympic cauldron on top of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum peristyle, the upper deck on one sideline is topped by an Olympic cauldron that was installed for the Olympic Games. The other sideline is topped by a press box."