It is a part of the municipality of Amsterdam, and lies about 6 km west of the city centre.

[3] Sloten is one of the few remnants of various places that have marks of Osdorp before the 1950s and Sloterdijk as well; Sloten was threatened by urbanisation on many occasions between the 1950s and the 1970s, as thousands of houses rose between the wide polderland of the Osdorp region.

Sloten remained untouched by suburban growth until in the 1980s, when the Netherlands campaigned to host the 1992 Summer Olympics.

When Barcelona was instead chosen to be the host, they changed plans and built to create Nieuw Sloten, which rose in the 1990s.

You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.This article about a Summer Olympics venue is a stub.