Okay at first glance it s really unremarkable.
Olympic stadiums winter roof.
Montreal s olympic stadium s roof has over 8 000 rips and costs up to 1 million a year to maintain.
Built in the mid 1970s as the main venue for the 1976 summer olympics it is nicknamed the big o a reference to both its name and to the doughnut shape of the permanent component of the stadium s roof.
The olympic games are one of the most popular sporting events around the world regardless if they are the summer or winter edition.
Unlike many other stadiums the munich olympic stadium harmoniously fits into its surrounding rolling landscape of the olympic park thanks to its curved tent roof.
Elvis barukcic afp getty images softball stadium 2004 athens olympics.
The collapsed roof of an olympic sports hall from sarajevo s 1984 olympics pictured on february 13 2012.
Stade olympique is a multi purpose stadium in montreal canada located at olympic park in the hochelaga maisonneuve district of the city.
Fisht olympic stadium was designed by populous and british design consultancy burohappold engineering the stadium s roof was built from approximately 36 500 square metres 393 000 sq ft of ethylene tetrafluoroethylene and was designed to give the roof the appearance of snowy peaks the bowl opens to the north allowing a direct view of the krasnaya polyana mountains and the upper.
The disused bobsled track from the sarajevo 1984 winter olympics is seen on mount trebevic near sarajevo september 19 2013.
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Abandoned and left to crumble into oblivion most of the 1984 winter olympic venues in bosnia s capital sarajevo have been reduced to rubble by neglect as much as the 1990s conflict that tore apart the former yugoslavia.
As a multi sport event competitions held during a given olympics usually take place in different venues located across the host city and its metropolitan area however some olympic competitions may be held outside the host metropolitan area.
But now montrealers are trading that bill for a new one.
The tent like roof not only covers the main grandstand of the olympic stadium but also extends across the olympic hall the olympic pool and the paths connecting the buildings.
Billions of dollars are spent on state of the art facilities stadiums and complexes to host the games.
The beijing national aquatics center is one of the few olympic stadiums that have managed to be reutilized.
The following are lists of all olympic venues starting with the first modern olympic games in 1896 organized alphabetically by sport and by year.
In 2010 it was reopened to the public as a water park.
