Olympic Tickets and travel

Olympic tickets are available with multiple sessions which include Olympic Men’s Sports and Olympic Women Sports. Tickets are being sold by the committee at nine locations, including the Arco Plaza at Sixth and Flower Streets in downtown Los Angeles and the Beverly Center at La Cienega and Beverly Boulevard in West Los Angeles. Olympic [...]

Is soccer relevant at Olympics?

Several major stars have been blocked from playing for their countries (Kaka the most notable ) in this years Olympic soccer tournament. Other countries do not even bother to enter. The age of players is mostly restricted to U23 with a few exceptions per team for older players. The soccer tournament was mostly [...]

Olympic Venues

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2008 Summer Olympic venues and Olympic Park
By May 2007, construction of all thirty-one Beijing-based Olympic Games venues had begun. The Chinese government is also investing in the renovation and construction of six venues outside Beijing as well as fifty-nine training centers. Its largest architectural pieces will be the Beijing National Stadium, Beijing National Indoor [...]

Venues

Olympic Soccer Venues
Olympic soccer competition stadiums:
National Stadium (The “Bird’s Nest”), Beijing: 91,000 seating capacity
· Men’s gold-medal match
Workers Stadium, Beijing: 70,161 seating capacity
· Women’s gold-medal match
· Women’s bronze-medal match
· One men’s semifinal
· One women’s semifinal
· One men’s quarterfinal
Shanghai [...]