Talk:Olympic Stadium (Tokyo)

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[edit] Wrong Stadium?

There seems to be a confusion here ... the photo and the google map link both depict an open-air stadium that is just a little north-east of the actual Tokyo Olympic Stadium. The actual stadium's most notable feature is the suspension roof, apparently the largest of that kind at the time. Here are some photos of the roofed stadium. Here is another page with more photos. Here is a google maps link to the roofed stadium. And here is a google maps link zoomed out to show the sites of both stadiums that we seem to be confusing. (Even more confusing is the fact that both sites feature a smaller arena near the main stadium, in pretty much the same arrangement.) -John Fitzgibbons 204.15.3.5 00:17, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Don't confuse the outdoor olympic stadium (correctly pictured in the article) with Yoyogi National Gymnasium. More details are at 1964 Summer Olympics#Venues. Regards. Neier 04:06, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Ah, thanks for clearing up my confusion. My original source was a book, Annotated Architecture by Neil Stevenson, ISBN 0-7894-1965-3, which contains a two-page spread on the Yoyogi Gymnasium, but refers to it as "Tokyo Olympic Stadium." -John Fitzgibbons 69.181.182.38 09:37, 20 January 2007 (UTC)