Tianjin Olympic Center Stadium
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The Tianjin Olympic Center Stadium (Simplified Chinese: 天津奥林匹克中心体育场) is a stadium in Tianjin, China. Construction started in August 2003 and was completed in August 2007.
The stadium hosted games for the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup. It will also host the Football preliminaries at the 2008 Summer Olympics It covers 78,000 square metres and has a capacity of 60,000. It as a length of 380 metres, a width of 270 metres, and a height of 53 metres. It is nicknamed the "Water Drop" because the outside of the venue is designed to resemble a drop of water. The stadium cost nearly 1,500,000,000 Yuan to build.
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- Tianjin Olympic Center Stadium - The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
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