Olympic Green
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The Olympic Green is an Olympic Park in Beijing, China constructed for the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Venues
Beijing National Stadium
The Beijing National Stadium ("Bird's Nest") is the centrepiece of this project. It will host the Opening and closing ceremonies, athletics, and football finals. The stadium has room for 91,000 spectators for the Games and the capacity will be reduced to 80,000 afterwards.
Beijing National Aquatics Center
The Beijing National Aquatics Center ("Water Cube") will host the swimming, diving and synchronized swimming events. It has a capacity of 17,000 (reduced to 6,000 after Olympics) and is located next to the National Stadium.
Beijing National Indoor Stadium
The Beijing National Indoor Stadium ("the Fan") will hold the handball, artistic gymnastics and trampolining events. With a capacity of 19,000, it will be the main indoor arena used during the Games.
Olympic Green Convention Center
The Olympic Green Convention Center, also called the National Convention Center, will hold fencing and the shooting and fencing disciplines of the modern pentathlon. It will also be used as the International Broadcast Center and the Main Press Center (for conventions and exhibitions). The centre will cover an area of 270,000 square metres.
Olympic Green Hockey Field
The Olympic Green Hockey Field will host the field hockey events. It covers an area of 11.87 hectares with 2 courts and can seat 17,000 fans. It will be deconstructed after the Games.
Olympic Green Archery Field
The Olympic Green Archery Field will host the archery events. The field occupies 9.22 hectares and has a capacity of 5,000. It will be converted to green belt after the Games.
Olympic Green Tennis Center
The Olympic Green Tennis Center will host the tennis and wheelchair tennis events. It has 16 courts (10 competition, 6 practice) and a capacity of 17,400. It opened on October 1st, 2007 [1].
Other parts
Olympic Village
The Beijing Olympic Village will house all the participating athletes. The village is made up of 22 6-story buildings and 20 9-story buildings.
Ling Long Pagoda
The Ling Long Pagoda houses a part of the International Broadcast Center (IBC). It is located near the Olympic Cauldron side of the Bird's Nest Stadium. The structure is a three-sided tower. The tower contains 6 occupiable pods with open space inbetween. The pods are held up by three supporting ribs at the three corners. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Some international broadcast studios are located in the pods of the tower, offering skyline views as backdrops of Olympic broadcasts. CCTV, BBC, CBC Television for both French and English networks, TV Azteca, Televisa and France share use of the tower's studio facilities. BBC occupies the second pod from the bottom. CBC occupies the fourth pod from the bottom [6] NBC's Today Show tapes from the ground floor. [7]
References
- ^ Beijing Olympic Broadcasting Co. News Headlines
- ^ SportsBusinessDaily, All Around The World: CBC, BBC Prep Their Olympic Coverage Plans
- ^ Globe and Mail, Is this the CBC's last hurrah? WILLIAM HOUSTON 7 August 2007.
- ^ BBC Sniffer dogs and security sweeps Jonathan Bramley 24 Jul 08, 03:20 PM
- ^ The Walrus, Live from Ling Long Pagoda Mitch Moxley August 8th, 2008
- ^ CBC, If only the weather co-operates Bernice Chan 4 Aug 2008
- ^ Huffington Post, Reporting for Volunteer Duty at Beijing's Olympic Broadcast Tower Courtney Woo 30 July 2008