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Olympic Venues

Will Herbert, Chelsea Kim, and Victoria Hohlstein

Chelsea: The National Stadium- It’s where the opening and closing ceremonies are. The National Stadium is where the main action of the 29th Olympic Games is going to take place. It has a floor space of 258,000 sq meters and is located on the Olympic Green. Track, field and soccer games will take place there, also. It will seat 91,000 people during the games, but afterward 11,000 temporary seats will be taken out. The stadium was completed at the end of 2007. The designers are Herzog & de Meuron Architekten AG, Arup, and China Architectural Design and Research Group. After the Olympics, it will be used as a host to spiritual activitivities and international events.

Will- National Aquatics Center- AKA the ‘Water Cube.” The competitions that are being held there are swimming, diving, and synchronized swimming. It took almost four years to complete and was completed on January 28, 2008. It has become an official landmark of Beijing. It is the only olympic venue to ever be funded by donations from compatriots instead of the government of the host country and Olympic Committee. It will seat 17,000 people for the olympics. It will have 6,000 standard seats and 11,000 temporary seats for the olympics. After the olympics, it will become a multi-functional facility for sports, recreation, and culture.

Victoria- The Laoshan Velodrome is the home of cycling in this year’s Olympic games. It is located in Laoshan, Shijinshan District, in Beijing. It seats six thousand people.





The Water Cube by:angus_mac_123

media type="youtube" key="eMdx6ems4K4&hl=en" height="355" width="425"The National Stadium

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