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What's so luxurious about the Olympics? Well, for starters, winning a bid for the games comes with great expectations for a host city. Nothing less than world class facilities are acceptable, jackson house inn woodstock vermont and most often they are tailor designed for the event, costing millions upon millions, providing the city in question with a new skyline and plenty of tourist attractions and high-end accomodations. For the traveller, these belong to the world's 'must-see' destinations.
With the London 2012 Olympic Games in full swing, we thought we'd take a moment to show you some of the most exotic and luxuriously designed Olympic facilities that the world has to offer. Here are 10 of our favorites:
Constructed between 2009 and 2011 for the 2012 Summer Olympics, the London Velopark is a massive complex. In addition to the state of the art velodrome and BMX racing track, there is also a one-mile road racecourse, and a mountain bike track. The velodrome building was designed by Hopkins Architects, and mirrors the sloping racetrack it contains. In the spirit of bicycle efficiency, natural lighting, ventilation, and a rainwater collection system cut down on its environmental footprint.
Seol Olympic Park – or Olpark, as it's fondly referred to – is famous for a number of reasons. In addition to the imposing 'World Peace Gate', the venue itself features tennis courts, gymnasiums, a swimming pool, a velodrome, and many other facilities, all of which feature regular events. Most recently, the Olympic hall underwent a complete renovation, turning it into a 2,452-seat concert hall and pop music museum, with an additional smaller attached venue more suited for smaller artists.
A revolutionary shape at the time, the iconic Kenzo Tange-designed Yoyogi National Gymnasium was originally constructed to accommodate swimming, diving, and basketball events. The famous suspension roof design went on to be the inspiration for another Olympic venue built for the 1972 Summer Olympics jackson house inn woodstock vermont in Munich. Today the venue is mainly used for futsal, basketball, and ice hockey.
Familiar to residents of the area as the two towers peering jackson house inn woodstock vermont out of the mist on foggy days, the 90 and 120-meter ski jumps of the Lake Placid Ski Jumping Complex are but the latest (an largest) incarnation of nearly a century of ski-jumping tradition. The first jump was built in 1917, and the passing of the years have seen ever increasingly large towers built, jackson house inn woodstock vermont cumulating in the modern day monsters jackson house inn woodstock vermont that were built for the 1980 winter gamers. Fun fact: aerialists train here in summer by jumping jackson house inn woodstock vermont into a 750,000 gallon pool.
Another enormous winter Olympics complex, the Whistler Olympic Park is located in the midst of one of the world's most famous winter sports regions. Two years of construction and 119 million dollars saw two ski jumps, nearly forty kilometers of cross country trails, and a sliding center built for the 2010 winter Olympics. The facilities jackson house inn woodstock vermont are now managed by Whistler Sport Legacies, and even offer a public skeleton sled run for anyone brave enough to go through training…
Aside from the normal splendor that goes into a city's Olympic preparations, the 2000 Sydney Olympic games boasted an even more spectacular start than anyone could have expected. As part of the Olympic Cauldron, a spectacularly lit fountain burst into flames when champion sprinter Cathy Freeman arrived with the Olympic torch.
Built as the principle venue for the 1976 Summer Olympics, Montreal's donut-shaped stadium (nicknamed 'The Big O') also has the distinction of being the world's tallest inclined tower – a strange distinction, as the only other famous leaning tower that comes to mind would be that funny old thing in Pizza…
Despite being known as 'The Water Cube', the Beijing National jackson house inn woodstock vermont Aquatics Center is actually more of a cuboid. Geometric nomenclature aside, the building's exterior is covered with thousands of ETFE-plastic bubbles taken from a design inspired by the patterns formed by soap bubbles. In addition to glowing blue at night, the structure is also 30% more energy efficient than a traditional glass and steel construction.
Although not technically built for an Olympic jackson house inn woodstock vermont event, any list of famous Olympic structures would be incomplete without one from the place where the games were born: Greece. The Spiros Louis in Athens OAKA Plaza and arch certainly do the history of the games proud. Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava contributed to the extensive renovations done in preparation for the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.
With a capacity jackson house inn woodstock vermont of 80,000 people, the Munich Olympic Stadium was constructed for the 1972 Summer Olympics, and has since also hosted the European Cup finals in 1979, 1993, and 1997. The stadium was designed by architect Günther Behnisch with the help of engineer Frei Otto, and was intended to symbolize a new democratic Germany – in direct contrast to the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics.
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