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2020 Olympic stadium
First Look at the 2020 Olympic Stadium |
We're close to the end of the 2014 world cup, and in Japan they already know what their 2020 Olympic stadium, in which it will host the greatest sports event in the world, will look like. There is an informal competition between countries hosting the Olympic games - who can produce the most grandiose event. Well, Japan is already laying infrastructure and has been preparing since it was first named. The stadium is the masterpiece of these preparations, and it is cutting edge not only ind design but also in function, with a roof that can be moved, open or closed according to need. This is not just a stadium for the Olympic games, this will be most advanced stadium ever built, and will probably be a sports center for generations to come. The architect is none other than Zaha Hadid an Iraqi British national. The host-selection process for the 2020 Olympic Games took a strange twist in recent weeks, away from which city would be the best pick for the world’s biggest and most-expensive sporting event to which city had the least flaws. For Istanbul, it was political instability, riots and a doping scandal. For Madrid, it was high debts ($9.8 billion) and staggering unemployment (27 percent). And for Tokyo, it was troubles at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear plant and the attendant radiation concerns. In the end, however, it was Tokyo that did the best job convincing the International Olympic Committee that it was the least-flawed of the pack during the selection process in Buenos Aires this weekend. The Tokyo 2020 campaign launched an all-out blitz to assure the IOC that mounting concerns over the leak of radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant wouldn't affect Tokyo. “Let me assure you the situation is under control,” Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told the committee Saturday. “It has never done and will never do any damage to Tokyo.”      View of the FOOTBALL STADIUM  |