Olympic Stadium Roof Open

Media caption up above the stadium s new roof structure.

Olympic stadium roof open.

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. Work has begun to install a new roof on the olympic stadium as part of a 190m transformation of the east london venue. Even then movement of the roof was impossible in high wind conditions and technical problems plagued the facility. The stadium and its roof have had a checkered history from the beginning.

The arena s long term tenants the nhl s pittsburgh penguins never played with the roof open and the arena itself was never used for baseball. While montreal s olympic stadium was the first baseball park to have a retractable roof the roof was plagued by numerous problems and was never fully used. The olympics can no more run a deficit than a man can. At twice the size.

Then mayor jean drapeau presents a mock up of the olympic stadium. The olympic stadium s renovation board announced tuesday it was opening the floor for companies to pitch designs for the stadium s much discussed roof with one condition that the roof let. The cost of a retractable roof on olympic stadium which will be in place when montreal hosts soccer games for the 2026 world cup will be between 200 million and 300 million. Costing around 157 billion yen 1 4 billion the 68 000 seat stadium will host the opening and closing ceremonies at both the olympics and paralympics.

As part of sydney s candidature to host the olympic games 2000 the plan was to build an olympic park and an 80 000 capacity olympic stadium on a 16 hectare site located 19 kilometres from the city centre that had been used as cattle holding yards for the abattoirs of homebush.