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The Olympic Stadium is the name usually given to the big centrepiece stadium of the Summer Olympic Games. Traditionally, the opening and closing ceremonies and the track & field competitions are held in the Olympic Stadium. Many, though not all, of these venues actually contain the words Olympic Stadium as part of their name. The Winter Olympic Games do not have a central Olympic Stadium, however some edifices are designated as the Olympic Stadium, which usually hosts the opening and closing ceremonies.

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Summer Olympic Stadiums

Map of Summer Olympics locations - blue representing purposely built, green representing otherwise.

The following is a list of all Summer Olympics stadiums.

Olympics Stadium City Country Capacity
1896 Panathinaiko Stadio Athens  Greece 80,000
1900 Vélodrome de Vincennes Paris  France  ?
1904 Francis Field St. Louis  United States 19,000
1908 White City Stadium London  United Kingdom 68,000
1912 Stockholms Olympiastadion Stockholm  Sweden 20,000
1920 Olympisch Stadion Antwerp  Belgium 12,771
1924 Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir Paris  France 45,000
1928 Olympisch Stadion Amsterdam  Netherlands 31,600
1932 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles  United States 101,574
1936 Olympiastadion Berlin  Germany 110,000
1948 Wembley Stadium London  United Kingdom
1952 Olympiastadion Helsinki  Finland
1956 Melbourne Cricket Ground Melbourne  Australia
1960 Stadio Olimpico Rome  Italy
1964 Kokuritsu Kasumigaoka Rikujō Kyōgijō Tokyo  Japan
1968 Estadio Olímpico Universitario Mexico City  Mexico
1972 Olympiastadion Munich  Germany
1976 Olympic Stadium/Stade Olympique Montreal  Canada
1980 Tsentral'nogo stadiona imeni V.I. Lenina Moscow  Soviet Union
1984 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles  United States
1988 Seoul Jamsil Ollimpik Gyeonggijang Seoul  South Korea
1992 Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc Barcelona  Spain
1996 Centennial Olympic Stadium Atlanta  United States
2000 Stadium Australia Sydney  Australia
2004 Olympiako Stadio Athinas 'Spyros Louis' Athens  Greece
2008 Běijīng Guójiā Tǐyùchǎng "Niǎocháo (Bird's Nest)" Beijing  China
2012 Olympic Stadium London  United Kingdom

Some of the Olympic stadiums have usually been built specifically to host the Olympics, as opposed to being an already existing facility. Others have been already completed when their city has been awarded the Olympics, and have had the title added:

Specially built

The 1928 Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam, designed by Jan Wils, won the gold medal in architecture at the 1928 Olympics.

Already constructed

There have been a number of other stadia that have been used as the main stadium for the Olympics, but which have not incorporated the words Olympic Stadium into their name - again, some of these were specially built for the games, while others were already existing:

Specially built

Already built

In addition to these, there are other stadia called Olympic Stadium around the world, which have been built as part of a prospective bid for the Games:

Not associated with the Olympics

The term "Olympic Stadium" may also be used to describe any stadia that contain an athletic track with the official measures adopted by the IAAF and IOC. Some stadia have simply been named that way, even though they were neither part of an Olympic bid, nor host to any Olympic events:

Used twice

A number of stadiums have been used in more than one Olympics, in those cities that have held the Games twice. While only one (the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum) has been the main stadium twice, both the Panathinaiko Stadio and the Vélodrome de Vincennes have hosted events at subsequent Olympics. Wembley Stadium will also be used again at the 2012 Games, although that stadium is a completely rebuilt structure on the same site as the 1948 stadium. The only stadium to have been used twice, but only host one Olympics, is the Melbourne Cricket Ground which was the venue in 1956 and hosted the first game of the Sydney 2000 football tournament.

Other major events

Winter Olympic stadiums

Locations of the Winter Olympics

Comprehensive list

The following is a list of all main Winter Olympics stadiums.

Olympics Stadium City Country
1924 Stade Olympique de Chamonix Chamonix  France
1928 St. Moritz Olympic Ice Rink St Moritz  Switzerland
1932 Lake Placid Speedskating Oval Lake Placid, New York  United States
1936 Olympia Skistadion Garmisch-Partenkirchen  Germany
1948 St. Moritz Olympic Ice Rink St Moritz  Switzerland
1952 Bislett stadion Oslo  Norway
1956 Stadio Olympicas Cortina d'Ampezzo  Italy
1960 Blyth Arena Squaw Valley, California  United States
1964 Bergisel Innsbruck  Austria
1968 Stade Lesdiguières Grenoble  France
1972 Makomanai Open Stadium Sapporo  Japan
1976 Bergisel Innsbruck  Austria
1980 Lake Placid Equestrian Stadium Lake Placid, New York  United States
1984 Asim Ferhatović Hase Stadium Sarajevo  Yugoslavia
1988 McMahon Stadium Calgary  Canada
1992 Théâtre des Cérémonies Albertville  France
1994 Lysgårdsbakken Lillehammer  Norway
1998 Nagano Olympic Stadium Nagano  Japan
2002 Rice-Eccles Stadium Salt Lake City, Utah  United States
2006 Stadio Olimpico di Torino Turin (Torino)  Italy
2010 BC Place Stadium Vancouver  Canada
2014 Sochi Olympic Stadium Sochi  Russia

Purpose built Olympic Stadia for the Games

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Existing stadia renamed for the Games

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Existing stadia used for the Games

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Picture Gallery (Summer)

Beijing National Stadium(aka The Bird's Nest) in May 2008.

The Olympic Stadium in Montreal. It is the tallest stadium in the world, as well as the most infamous Olympic Stadium in history. The structure cost $1.7 billion.[citation needed]

Entrance to the Coliseum in Los Angeles.

Inside the Stadio Olimpico in Rome.

The Olympiastadion in Munich at a Bird's Eye view.

The Panathinaiko Stadium, The first stadium meant for the Olympics.

The Stadium Australia in Sydney.

The Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in Barcelona.

Picture Gallery (Winter)

The BC Place Stadium is going to be used for the 2010 Olympic Games.

The Stadio Olimpico di Torino in 2006.

The McMahon Stadium, which was used for the 1988 Winter Olympics.

The Bislett stadion, which was used for the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo.

A skii slide at Lysgårdsbakken.

The Olympic Cauldron at the Lake Placid Equestrian Stadium.

View on Bergisel from the North IN Innsbruck, Austria.

The Asim Ferhatović Hase Stadium in Sarajevo.


Summer Olympic stadia
Winter Olympic stadia

See also

References

  1. ^ stadium was built for a bid for the 1996 Centennial Olympics

External links

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