Olympic stadium design announced

The One wrote:yeah grounds with running tracks are hardly football grounds, they are athletics grounds with people playing football on it once in a while. very poor for atmosphere, the traditional english and german grounds are way better

Yep. Hence Bayerns move from the Olympic stadium to their new ground.

Henry wrote:Why have they ruled out the idea of the Olympic stadium becoming West Ham's home gound? Surely it would save money rather than having another stadium being built.

Because the stadium must have a running track for Athletics.

JKLever wrote:

doremi wrote:

Shoeshine wrote:

Henry wrote:The Sydney stadium was about 90,000 for the Olympics and reduced to 70,000 afterwards, but it is Sydney's only 50,000+ seat stadium.

I guess the argument is that London doesnt need another huge stadium on top of Wembley, the Emirates, and Twickenham.

More to the point, they want one specifically for athletics, and a running track doesn't work in a football or rugby stadium. And an 80,000 seat stadium is far too big for athletics post 2012.

Hah, you obviously haven't seen the bigger Indian football stadiums (and by big I mean a capacity of 100,000+).

The general consensus in this country is that a running track dilutes the atmosphere. No club side will move to a new ground with a running track

Well yeah that's what our English coach said.

JKLever wrote:

bliksem wrote:That's quite a small stadium for something like the Olympics. I presume ticket prices are going to be astronomical?

Its 80,000

What's 80,000? The price of a ticket? You said in your first post that they were reducing the size of the stadium to 25,000.

bliksem wrote:

JKLever wrote:

bliksem wrote:That's quite a small stadium for something like the Olympics. I presume ticket prices are going to be astronomical?

Its 80,000

What's 80,000? The price of a ticket? You said in your first post that they were reducing the size of the stadium to 25,000.

After the Olympics

So it's 80,000 for the Olympics and then they're going to make it 25,000 after it? That sounds rather odd to me. Bit of a waste too. There's children starving in Ethiopia after all.

bliksem wrote:So it's 80,000 for the Olympics and then they're going to make it 25,000 after it? That sounds rather odd to me.

No need for another stadium in London of 80k.

I know, it just sounds like a massive waste. Can they not make the extra capacity out of old toilet paper tubes and sticky-backed plastic or something?

bliksem wrote:I know, it just sounds like a massive waste. Can they not make the extra capacity out of old toilet paper tubes and sticky-backed plastic or something?

Hang on, I'll ask Valarie Singleton for you...

bliksem wrote:I know, it just sounds like a massive waste. Can they not make the extra capacity out of old toilet paper tubes and sticky-backed plastic or something?

I didn't think Multiplex were building this one? :bom:

Here is a nice link about world's stadiums (stadia?). It lists stadiums by capacity, tenant, continent, and sports played with nice pictures. A list is there for future constructions too!

http://www.worldstadiums.com/stadium_menu/stadium_list.shtml

The biggest ball sport stadium in the world is the one in Pyongyang, North Korea, with a capacity of 150,000. They mostly use it for lavish military parades, though.

It's incredible the capacity of some of those US college football stadiums. Most of them seat between 50-100,000.

Henry wrote:The Sydney stadium was about 90,000 for the Olympics and reduced to 70,000 afterwards

Speaking through your arse again Trev?

Olympic Stadium in Sydney had a capacity in excess of 100,000 prior to the games, slightly reduced for the Olympics due to increased press area but still six-figures if media were included. After the games the seating in the nosebleeds at the end was removed and a capacity of 80,000+ was maintained.

Then again, expecting you to actually be positive about anything Australian would be like expecting the sun to come up in the west.

I always think Olympic Stadiums are built with too big a capacity.

Aside from the opening & closing ceremonies, most are only 30-40% full during the events

JKLever wrote:I always think Olympic Stadiums are built with too big a capacity.

Aside from the opening & closing ceremonies, most are only 30-40% full during the events

I reckon we'll fill it pretty much all the time. For all our lack of relative success, the Brits are unbelievable attenders of sport.

Try getting a ticket to any major sporting event! They always sell out.

Aye, right enough.

I'll be there just for the crack, hopefully...

JKLever wrote:I always think Olympic Stadiums are built with too big a capacity.

Aside from the opening & closing ceremonies, most are only 30-40% full during the events

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I seem to remember the Olympic Stadium being full for every night of Athletics in Sydney.

It was also more than half-full for qualifying during the day.

And that stadium had a capacity of 110,000 for the Olympics.

Cheers.

Hass wrote:

JKLever wrote:I always think Olympic Stadiums are built with too big a capacity.

Aside from the opening & closing ceremonies, most are only 30-40% full during the events

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I seem to remember the Olympic Stadium being full for every night of Athletics in Sydney.

It was also more than half-full for qualifying during the day.

And that stadium had a capacity of 110,000 for the Olympics.

Cheers.

You may well be right Hass. I was thinking of the daytime - i'm sure it'll be close to full at night.

It's a must see event

Zat wrote:

Henry wrote:The Sydney stadium was about 90,000 for the Olympics and reduced to 70,000 afterwards

Speaking through your arse again Trev?

Olympic Stadium in Sydney had a capacity in excess of 100,000 prior to the games, slightly reduced for the Olympics due to increased press area but still six-figures if media were included. After the games the seating in the nosebleeds at the end was removed and a capacity of 80,000+ was maintained.

Then again, expecting you to actually be positive about anything Australian would be like expecting the sun to come up in the west.

LOL. Zat in 'perceiving everything I say to be an anti Australian rant' shock. Get a life you paranoid loser.

Shoeshine wrote:Can anyone explain (cos I honestly don't understand this) how you can reduce the capacity of an 80,000 stadium to 25,000?

What do they do, slice of the top tier or something?

Haven't got to the rest of the thread where some else has probably addressed this.

Anyhow............ FWIW the BBC World Service had the story that the playing surface & 25,000 seats are below ground level. When the time comes the temporary "above ground" seating will be removed.

Henry wrote:

Zat wrote:

Henry wrote:The Sydney stadium was about 90,000 for the Olympics and reduced to 70,000 afterwards

Speaking through your arse again Trev?

Olympic Stadium in Sydney had a capacity in excess of 100,000 prior to the games, slightly reduced for the Olympics due to increased press area but still six-figures if media were included. After the games the seating in the nosebleeds at the end was removed and a capacity of 80,000+ was maintained.

Then again, expecting you to actually be positive about anything Australian would be like expecting the sun to come up in the west.

LOL. Zat in 'perceiving everything I say to be an anti Australian rant' shock. Get a life you paranoid loser.

Not 'everything you say'.

Just everything you say about Australia and Australians.

Do us all a favour... Piss off back to the old country.