Le Stade Olympique
"The Big O"
Location	4549 Pierre de Coubertin Avenue Montreal, Quebec H1V 3N7
Broke ground	April 28, 1973
Opened	July 17, 1976 (Olympics) April 15, 1977 (Baseball)
Owner	Régie des Installations Olympiques (Government of Quebec)
Surface	Grass (1976) AstroTurf (1977-2001, 2005-2006) Defargo Astrograss (2002-2003) FieldTurf (2004) Temporary Grass (2007 for FIFA U-20 World Cup Canada)
Construction cost	C$ 770 million C$ 1.47 billion (2006 - including additional costs, interest and repairs)
Architect	Roger Taillibert
Tenants
Montreal Expos (NL) (1977-2004) Montreal Alouettes (CFL) (1976-1997; 1997-present [playoff games]) Montreal Manic (NASL) (1981-1983) Montreal Machine (WLAF) (1991-1992)
Capacity
Baseball: 43,739 Football: 65,255
Dimensions
Foul Lines - 325 ft (1977), 330 (1981), 325 (1983) Power Alleys - 375 ft Center Field - 404 ft (1977), 405 (1979), 404 (1980), 400 (1981), 404 (1983) Backstop - 62 ft (1977), 65 (1983), 53 (1989)

Le Stade Olympique (The Olympic Stadium) is a stadium in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was the main venue of the 1976 Summer Olympics and was the home ballpark of the National League's Montreal Expos from 1977 until the franchise was moved to Washington, D.C. after the 2004 season. Currently the stadium has no primary tenant nor is it opened year round any longer. It currently functions as a 56,040-seat multipurpose stadium for the city during non-winter months. Image File history File links OlympicStadiumLogo. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Le_Stade_Olympique_3. ... This article needs cleanup. ... April 28 is the 118th day of the year (119th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 247 days remaining. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... July 17 is the 198th day (199th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 167 days remaining. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... 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History

Background

The stadium was designed by French architect Roger Taillibert to be a very elaborate facility featuring a retractable roof, which was to be opened and closed by a huge 175-metre (583 ft 4 in) tower — the tallest inclined structure in the world, six metres (20 ft) taller than the Washington Monument, and the sixth tallest building in Montreal. Roger Taillibert is a French architect, notable for designing the Parc des Princes in Paris and the Stade Olympique in Montreal, Canada. ... A retractable roof is a technology used in many sports venues. ... The or meter (see spelling differences) is a measure of length. ... The Washington Monument at dusk For other Washington Monuments, see Washington Monuments (world). ... This is a list of the tallest skyscrapers in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada as of April 2005: (Source: Emporis) Although not a skyscraper, the Tour de Montréal on the Olympic Stadium reaches 175m/575ft, placing it between #5 and #6. ...

The Olympic swimming pool is located under this tower. An Olympic velodrome (since converted to the Montreal Biodome, an indoor nature museum) was situated at the base of the tower in a building similar in design to the swimming pool. The building was built as the main stadium for the 1976 Summer Olympic Games. The stadium was host to various events including: the opening and closing ceremonies, athletics, football finals, and some equestrian events. Bicycle racing on a velodrome A velodrome is a sporting arena purpose-built for track cycling, i. ... The Biodome, in front of the Olympic Stadium View from the tower of the Olympic Stadium The Montreal Biodome is a facility located in Montreal that allows visitors to walk through replicas of four ecosystems found in the Americas: a tropical forest, a Laurentian forest, an estuary habitat modeled on...

Construction

As construction was well underway, a labour strike caused a major delay to the building of the tower. The roof languished in a warehouse in France until 1982.

Opening

Problems plagued the stadium from the time it opened for the Olympic Games, when it was only half built.

Seating 58,500 at the time, the stadium was not fully completed in time for the games due to strikes by construction workers, leaving it without a tower or roof for the opening and several years following. Both the tower and the roof, made of over 60,000 square feet (18,000 square metres) of kevlar, were not completed for over a decade, and it was not until 1988 that it was possible to retract the roof. The 65-ton roof then proved difficult to retract, and was occasionally torn in heavy winds. Chemical structure of Kevlar. ... See also: 1987 in sports, other events of 1988, 1989 in sports and the list of years in sports. // Auto Racing Stock car racing: Bobby Allison won the Daytona 500 NASCAR Championship - Bill Elliott CART Racing - Danny Sullivan won the season championship Indianapolis 500 - Rick Mears Formula One Championship - Ayrton...

Stadium Financing

Despite initial projections in 1970 that the stadium would cost only C$120 million dollars to construct, strikes and construction delays served to escalate these costs. By the time the stadium opened (in an unfinished form) the total costs had risen to C$250 million. ISO 4217 Code CAD User(s) Canada Inflation 2. ... ISO 4217 Code CAD User(s) Canada Inflation 2. ...

The Quebec government introduced a special tobacco tax in May 1976 to help recoup its investment. By 2006 the amount contributed to the Olympic Installations Board accounted for 8% of the tax revenue earned from cigarette sales. The 1976 special tobacco tax act stipulated that once the stadium was paid off, ownership of the facility would be returned back to the City of Montreal.

In December 2006 the stadium's costs were finally payed in full [1]. The total expenditure (including repairs, renovations, construction, interest, and inflation) amounted to C$1.47 billion. Despite initial plans to complete payment in October 2006, an indoor smoking ban introduced in May 2006 curtailed the revenue gathered by the tobacco tax [2]. ISO 4217 Code CAD User(s) Canada Inflation 2. ...

Perceived by many to be a white elephant, the stadium has also humorously been dubbed The Big Owe, Uh-O or The Big Mistake. In a speech announcing that Montreal would host the Olympic Games, then-mayor of Montreal, Jean Drapeau, is remembered for saying, "The Olympics can no more have a deficit than a man can have a baby." This now-famous quote is often parodied by residents. A white elephant is a supposedly valuable possession whose upkeep costs exceed its usefulness, and it is therefore a liability. ... Jean Drapeau, mayor of Montréal Jean Drapeau CC , GOQ (February 18, 1916 – August 12, 1999) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as mayor of Montreal from 1954 to 1957 and 1960 to 1986. ...

Recent History

Olympic Stadium

Olympic Stadium was remodeled in 1991, with 12,000 seats being removed for [Montreal Expos|Expos] games. On September 8 of that year, support beams snapped and caused a 55 ton concrete slab to fall on to an interior walkway. No one was injured, but the [Montreal Expos|Expos] had to play their final 13 home games at alternative venues. In anticipations of the 1992 season, the retractable roof concept was abandoned in favour of a new permanent cover roof. This fixed roof was temporarily removed (for repairs) in May 1998, turning the park into an outdoor stadium for the season. In January 1999, a 350 square metre portion of the roof collapsed, dumping ice and snow on workers that were setting up for the annual Montreal Auto Show. This led to the auto show leaving the Olympic Stadium for good. Repaired once again, the permanent roof was back for the 1999 season and has remained on the park since; however, the roof has continued to prove less than reliable, as structural breaches have occurred during the winter months (due to snow and ice accumulation). The contractors, manufactures and engineers of the roof are now being sued for the roof failure. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1024x287, 339 KB) Summary Le Stade Olympique, Montreal Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Olympic Stadium (Montreal) Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1024x287, 339 KB) Summary Le Stade Olympique, Montreal Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Olympic Stadium (Montreal) Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from... This article is currently under construction // This year in baseball Events January 8 - Rod Carew, Gaylord Perry and Ferguson Jenkins are elected to the Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers Association of America, with Carew becoming the 22nd player to be named in his first year of eligibility. ... September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years). ... The following are the baseball events of the year 1992 throughout the world. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... The following are the baseball events of the year 1999 throughout the world. ...

The stadium's condition suffered considerably in the early 21st century. The Expos, as primary tenants, had handled most of the upkeep over the years, and after Major League Baseball took control of the team in 2002, the facility became coated with grime. Much of the concrete was chipped, stained, and soiled. This article or section cites very few or no references or sources. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...

The stadium is now closed for 4 months every winter as the fire marshal has concerns about the roof being unable to support snow loads. A third replacement roof is being considered as of March 2006. March 2006 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Fijian Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase announces that the 2006 Fiji general elections will be held in the second week of May 2006 from the 6th to the 13th. ...

The stadium was the home of the Montreal Manic soccer team from 1981 - 1983. A 1981 playoff game against the Chicago Sting attracted a crowd of over 58,000. The stadium also has various other multipurpose uses: indoor exhibitions, monster truck shows, and so forth (excluding winter months, due to safety issues with the current roof in place). In 2005, the FieldTurf surface was sold for $1 million (Canadian) to the BC Place domed stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia, which is being used by the CFL B.C. Lions. The Montreal Manic were a soccer team based out of Montreal that played in the NASL. They played from 1981 to 1983. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The wide plain of FieldTurf used at Torontos Rogers Centre was installed after the 2004 baseball season. ... BC Place Stadium is Canadas first domed stadium. ... This article refers to the city in British Columbia, Canada. ... The British Columbia Lions, commonly known as the BC Lions, are a Canadian Football League team based in Vancouver, British Columbia and are the 2006 Grey Cup Champions. ...

Transit

The stadium is directly connected to the Pie-IX metro station on the Green Line of the Montreal Metro. Montreals underground city (French: La ville souterraine) is the well-known underground city complex in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ... Pie-IX Pie-IX is a station on the Montreal Metro Green Line. ... The Green (Line 1) line is one of the four lines of the Montreal metro. ... Place-Saint-Henri station The Montreal Metro is the main form of public transportation within the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ...

Stadium Usage

Olympic Stadium

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Football

The stadium is used by the Canadian Football League's Montreal Alouettes for the team's last regular season game and playoff games. The team's regular season home is now Percival Molson Stadium of McGill University. Lions Stampeders Eskimos Roughriders Blue Bombers Tiger-Cats Argonauts Alouettes The Canadian Football League (CFL), also known by its French name, Ligue canadienne de football (LCF), is a professional sports league located in Canada that plays Canadian football, and is the second most popular sports league in Canada. ... The Montreal Alouettes (French: Alouettes de Montréal) are a Canadian Football League team based in Montreal, Quebec. ... Molson Stadium (Officially known as Percival Molson Memorial Stadium) is a football stadium at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. ... McGill University is a publicly funded, co-educational research university located in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ...

Other

It was recently used in 2006 for the openning and closing ceremonies of the 1st World Outgames and is regularly used for other events such as the main event of the Black and Blue Festival, the biggest gay circuit party in the world. The 1st World Outgames took place in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from July 26, 2006 to August 5, 2006. ... A circuit party is a huge disco-type dance party, extending through a night and into the following day, almost always with a number of affiliated events in the days leading up to and following the main event. ...

Facts and Figures

• Olympic Stadium holds the record for a soccer game attendance in Canada. At the 1976 Summer Olympics soccer final, 72,000 people witnessed East Germany's 3-1 win over Poland.

• Olympic Stadium was extensively featured on the final episode of The Amazing Race: Family Edition, when teams spent part of a leg in Montreal.

• In 1977, Pink Floyd wrapped up their In The Flesh tour at this venue. During the performance, Roger Waters started to sing "Pigs on the Wing 2", but was interrupted by an audience member setting off a firecracker near to the stage. He stopped singing and shouted out, "Oh, for fuck's sake. Stop letting off fireworks and shouting and screaming. I'm trying to sing a song." The crowd cheered at this. He Continued:

"I mean I don't care. If you don't wanna hear it, you know... Fuck you! I'm sure there's a lot of people here who do want to hear it. So why don't you just be quiet... If you wanna let your fireworks off, go outside and let them off out there. And if you wanna shout and scream and holler go and do it out there but... I'm trying to sing a song that some people want to listen to. I want to listen to it!"

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He then continued with the song. The situation continued to deteriorate, however, and during "Pigs (Three Different Ones)", Waters watched incredulously as one fan climbed the netting that separated the audience from the band. Out of disgust, Waters spat in the fan's face. Near the end of the show, Pink Floyd guitarist and singer David Gilmour was reported to have walked off the stage in disgust, sitting out the final encore. Following the performance, Waters is said to have regretted his actions, and began to lament the separation between the audience and band. It was this which caused Waters to come up with the idea of the critically acclaimed album The Wall. The band would not play at the stadium again until 1988 on their A Momentary Lapse of Reason tour. On that occasion, the performance went smoothly. They subsequently returned to the venue on their 1994 The Division Bell tour.

The 1977 show has been released as a bootleg, humerously titled "Who Was Trained Not To Spit on the Fan". This title is derived from the lyrics to the song "Dogs" - the actual lyrics are "Who Was Trained Not To Spit in the Fan."

• A month later, Emerson Lake and Palmer recorded and filmed a live performance at this venue with an orchestra which was released on the live album Works Live and the video Live at Olympic Stadium.

• Fifteen years later in 1992, Metallica lead singer James Hetfield had his arm severely burned in a pyro mishap causing Metallica to curtail their set. Then Guns and Roses curtailed their set when Axl Rose's microphone went dead and a riot broke out at the venue.

• The roof is only 52 metres (173 ft 4 in) above the field of play. As a result, a number of pop-ups and long home runs hit the roof since play began, necessitating the painting of orange lines on the roof to separate foul balls from fair balls.

• The Montreal games of the FIFA U-20 World Cup Canada 2007 will be played at Olympic Stadium on a temporary grass surface, as per the wishes of FIFA.

• The scenes representing the M&T Bank Stadium in the 2002 film The Sum of All Fears were filmed at Olympic Stadium.

• In the movie Blades of Glory, the 2006 World Figure Skating Championships were held at Olympic Stadium (though not actually filmed in Olympic Stadium). The logo for the games was the elevator lift at Olympic Stadium.

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See also

• Olympic Stadium
• List of Canadian Football League stadiums

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External links

• Ballpark Digest visit to Olympic Stadium
• Ballparks.com
• Football Ballparks.com
• Baseball Reference
• Baseball Library
• Régie des installations olympiques (Government of Quebec)
• Google maps
• Olympic Stadium datasheet on Images Montreal

Multimedia

• CBC Archives A clip from 1975 - Stadium architect talks about his design.
• CBC Archives - A look back on the history of the stadium (1999).

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The West Division is one of the two regional divisions of the Canadian Football League. ... The Canadian Football Leagues East Division has 4 teams. ... BC Place Stadium is Canadas first domed stadium and is the largest air-supported stadium in the world. ... Commonwealth Stadium is a venue located in the Norwood Area of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, primarily used by the Edmonton Eskimos of the CFL. Built in 1978 to host the Commonwealth Games, the stadium seats 60,081 (for regular season football)[1] but can be expanded. ... McMahon Stadium (pronounced ) is a Canadian football stadium located in Calgary, Alberta. ... Mosaic Stadium at Taylor Field is a sports stadium in Regina, Saskatchewan that is the home field of the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League; it is also the site of University of Regina Rams and Regina Thunder of the Prairie Football Conference football teams. ... Canad Inns Stadium (formerly Winnipeg Stadium) is a Canadian football stadium located in Winnipeg, Manitoba. ... Ivor Wynne Stadium (originally known as Civic Stadium) is a Canadian football stadium located in Hamilton, Ontario. ... Molson Stadium (Officially known as Percival Molson Memorial Stadium) is a football stadium at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. ... Rogers Centre, formerly known as SkyDome,[1] is a multi-purpose stadium in Toronto, Ontario, situated next to the CN Tower near the shores of Lake Ontario. ... Nickname: Motto: Concordia Salus (in unity, prosperity) Coordinates: Country Canada Province Quebec Founded 1642 Established 1832 Government  - Mayor Gérald Tremblay Area [1][2][3]  - City 365. ... Taj Mahal Big Ben Saint Basils Cathedral For other senses of this word, see landmark (disambiguation). ... The Biodome, in front of the Olympic Stadium View from the tower of the Olympic Stadium The Montreal Biodome is a facility located in Montreal that allows visitors to walk through replicas of four ecosystems found in the Americas: a tropical forest, a Laurentian forest, an estuary habitat modeled on... The Biosphère is a geodesic dome on Ile Sainte-Hélène in Montréal, Canada. ... Centre Bell, Montreal Centre Bell, Montreal The Bell Centre (French: Centre Bell), formerly known as the Molson Centre, has been the home of the Montreal Canadiens since March 16, 1996, when the team departed from the historic Montreal Forum after their last game on March 11 of the same year. ... The Canadian Centre for Architecture is an architecture museum and research centre located in Montreal, Canada. ... The Centre Eaton is a popular mall located in the heart of downtown Montreal. ... Casino de Montréal The Casino de Montréal is a casino located on the Ile Notre-Dame in Montreal. ... Christ Church Cathedral, with the Place de la Cathédrale office tower behind it Christ Church Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the seat of the Anglican Diocese of Montreal. ... South tower Complexe Desjardins is an office and hotel complex and shopping mall located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ... Complexe Les Ailes is a major retail and office complex on Saint Catherine Street in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ... The Montreal Forum was an indoor arena located in Montreal, Canada. ... The 33,000 square metre Grande Bibliothèque du Québec building in Montreal. ... Habitat 67 is a striking housing complex located on the Quai Marc-Drouin on the Saint Lawrence River at Montreal. ... The Cathedral-Basilica of Mary, Queen of the World (French: Cathédrale Marie-Reine-du-Monde) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, is the seat of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Montreal. ... The McCord Museum (in French, Musée McCord) is a public research and teaching museum dedicated to the preservation, study, diffusion, and appreciation of Canadian history. ... Notre-Dame de Montréal Basilica Basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal (English: Notre-Dame Basilica) is a basilica in the historic district of Montreal, in Quebec, Canada. ... Constructed over the Autoroute Ville-Marie. ... View of the Place des Arts esplanade. ... Indoor Water Fountain in the center of Place Montreal Trust Place Montreal Trust is a large shopping mall in downtown Montreal just next door to the Centre Eaton (Montreal). ... Place Ville-Marie Place Ville-Marie or 1, Place Ville-Marie is a cruciform office tower built in the International style in 1962 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ... Queen Elizabeth Hotel, with Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral in the foreground Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth, commonly called The Queen Elizabeth Hotel (Le Reine Elizabeth), is a grand hotel in Montreal, Quebec. ... Outer view of the entrance of the museum View of the Albertosaurus in the central evolution exhibit atrium. ... St. ... Tour de la Bourse by day. ... Montreals Underground City (French: ) is the set of interconnected complexes (both above and below ground) in and around downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ... The Montreal World Trade Centre west entrance on Square Victoria. ... The gate on Saint Lawrence Boulevard. ... Old Montreal (or Vieux-Montréal in French) is the oldest area in the Canadian city of Montreal, dating back to colonial times. ... Old Port of Montreal Old Port of Montreal Stretching for over two kilometres along the St-Lawrence River, the Old Port Of Montreal has been the social, economic and cultural soul of Montreal ever since early French fur traders used it as a trading post in 1611. ... The Quartier international de Montréal (QIM) or Montreals International District is an area of the Ville-Marie borough of downtown Montreal that underwent a major urban renewal as a central business district in 2000–2003. ... Flower Covered Beetle in the greenhouse of Jardin botanique de Montréal The Jardin botanique de Montréal or Montreal Botanical Garden is a large botanical garden in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ... Beaver Lake (Lac des castors), on the top of the Mount Royal Mount Royal (French: Mont Royal) ( ) is a mountain on the Island of Montreal, immediately north of downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the city to which it gave its name. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... The Island of Montreal (in French, île de Montréal), in extreme southwestern Quebec, Canada, is located at the confluence of the Saint Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers. ... ÃŽle Notre-Dame is an artificial island built from earth excavated for the Montreal metro in 1965. ... ÃŽle des SÅ“urs redirects here. ... Man, a sculpture by Alexander Calder, on Saint Helens Island Saint Helens Island (French ÃŽle Sainte-Hélène [1]) (, ) is an island in the Saint Lawrence River, in the territory of the city of Montreal. ... Montréal-Mirabel International Airport, (or Montréal International (Mirabel) Airport) (IATA: YMX, ICAO: CYMX) originally called Montreal International Airport and widely known simply as Mirabel, is a large airport located in Mirabel, Quebec, near Montreal and was opened 4 October 1975. ... Place-Saint-Henri station The Montreal Metro is the main form of public transportation within the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ... Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (IATA: YUL, ICAO: CYUL) (French: Aéroport international Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau de Montréal) or Montréal-Trudeau, formerly known as Montréal-Dorval International Airport, is located in the city of Dorval, on the Island of Montreal and is 20 km from... The Société de transport de Montréal or Montreal Transit Corporation is the agency that operates bus and subway (metro) in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ... Windsor Station was a train station in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, formerly serving as the citys central station. ... Gare Centrale is the primary railway station in Montreal. ... The Canadian Grand Prix (known in its native French as the Grand Prix du Canada) is a Formula One auto race held in Canada since 1967. ... Baton twirlers at the Divers/Cité parade in 2002 Divers/Cité is a gay pride festival held in Montreal, and the committee that organizes it. ... Just for Laughs (in French Juste pour rire) is a comedy festival held each year in Montreal, Quebec. ... L’International des Feux Loto-Québec, also known as the Montreal Fireworks Festival, is the most important international fireworks competition. ... A stage at the jazz festival The Montreal International Jazz Festival (also called the Jazz Fest, in French Festival International de Jazz de Montréal) is one of the biggest jazz festivals in the world. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...