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The National Olympic Stadium is a stadium in Tokyo, that served as the main stadium for the 1964 Summer Olympics. However, it was completed in 1958 as the Japanese national stadium, with its first major event being the 1958 Asian Games. Since then, the stadium has held many other significant events, most notably the 1991 World Athletics Championships. As the national stadium in Japan, it is the venue for the final of the Emperor's Cup on 1st January each year, while it also occasionally serves as the home ground for both FC Tokyo and Tokyo Verdy, as well as other teams in the J-League. The stadium's capacity is currently 60,057. The Olympia Stadium: start and finish lines visible, defining the length of one stadium (in this case 192. ... Tokyo (東京; Tōkyō  listen, literally eastern capital), is located in the Kanto region on the island of Honshu in Japan. ... The Games of the XVIII Olympiad were held in 1964 in Japan. ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Asian Games, also called the Asiad, is a South Korea and Japan. ... The World Championships in Athletics is an event organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations. ... The following article refers to the Japanese football/soccer prize. ... F.C. Tokyo(FC東京) is a J. League team. ... The J. League (in Japanese: Jリーグ, Officially 日本プロサッカーリーグ) is the top professional football league in Japan. ...


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Olympic Stadium (Montreal) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (706 words)
Montreal's Olympic Stadium (French Le Stade Olympique) was the main venue of the 1976 Summer Olympics and was the home ballpark of Major League Baseball's Montreal Expos from 1977 until the franchise was moved to Washington, DC after the 2004 season.
Olympic Stadium was remodeled in 1991, with 12,000 seats being removed for Expos games.
The stadium is directly connected to the Pie-IX metro station on the Green Line of the Montreal Metro.
Olympic Stadium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (474 words)
The Olympic Stadium is the name usually given to the big centrepiece sports arena of the Summer Olympic Games.
Traditionally, the opening ceremony and the track and field competitions are held in the Olympic Stadium.
In addition to these, there are other stadia called Olympic Stadium around the world, which have either been built as part of a prospective bid for the Games (Atatürk Olimpiyat Stadyumu, Istanbul and Estadio Olímpico de la Cartuja, Seville) or have simply been named that way (Olympic Stadium, Ashgabat).
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