George Odlum Stadium
| George Odlum National Stadium | |
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| George Odlum Stadium | |
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National Stadium (2002-2007) |
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 Vieux Fort , St. LuciaPoint Sable, St. Urbain |
| Coordinates | 13 ° 45 '15.4 " N , 60 ° 56' 37.8" W |
| opening | July 2002 |
| Renovations | 2009 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| costs | EC $ 58 million |
| capacity | 8,000 seats |
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The George Odlum National Stadium is a football stadium with athletics track in the town of St. Urban in district Vieux Fort on St. Lucia at the foot of the Morne Beausejour. It is close to downtown Vieux Fort and Hewanorra International Airport . The facility with a capacity of 8,000 spectators is mainly used for football and athletics .
construction
The stadium construction was one of several projects that the then Foreign and Foreign Trade Minister George Odlum (1934-2003) initiated during his term from 1997 to 2001. The planning work cost St. Lucia more than 3 million EC $ . After the first government under Kenneth Anthony recognized the People's Republic of China and severed ties with Taiwan , the Chinese government agreed to finance the construction. On September 8, 2000, the government transferred the site where the stadium is today to the China National Overseas Engineering Corporation (COVEC), a Chinese construction company. She built the complex on behalf of the Chinese government. On the last weekend in July 2002, the stadium was handed over to the Lucian government.
Even if the complex was very modern, the career path did not meet the requirements of the IAAF . In 2008/2009, at a time when the new government had broken ties with the People's Republic of China and resumed with Taiwan, the surface was replaced as the Lucian Athletics Association held the athletics competitions at the XXXVIII CARIFTA Games , an annual Caribbean sports festival in this stadium Free Trade Association , wanted to align. The association was supported by Prime Minister Stephenson King . The cost was more than EC $ 10 million. The Grenadian runner Kirani James finally set a 400 m world record in the U-20 class on the track.
Web links
- FootballFans.eu: George Odlum National Stadium
- Soccerway: George Odlum National Stadium
- World stadiums: Vieux Fort National Stadium
- Dana Augustin: Construction Phase of National Stadium is in the Hands of Chinese ( Memento June 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ); Communication from the Lucian government dated September 8, 2000
- Primus Hutchinson: National Stadium handed over to St. Lucia Government ( June 14, 2011 memento in the Internet Archive ); Communication from the Lucian government dated July 29, 2002
Individual evidence
- ↑ World Stadiums names 9,000 seats.