Talk:Olympic Stadium (Montreal)

message: The sourced article (dated oct 2005) says that the Olympic Stadium would be paid off by the end of June. This one (dated today, July 17 2006) says "Montreal will finally see relief from payments on the stadium in a couple of months". Anyone know an accurate date?
:: News reports in November of 2006 indicated that the stadium debt had finally been paid off by the city.  Posthocergopropterhoc 16:01, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trivia Section 

message: Why is the size of the roof be specified as a length? Shouldn't it be an area, therefore in feet squared or meters squared? 70.52.7.54 17:36, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kevlar roof 

message: I've searched wikipedia inside and out and found no article about the stadium's Tour de Montréal. The tower is barely mentioned in the Olympic Stadium article. The tallest inclined structure in the world more than deserves its own page...
I believe the height data shown for the Olympic Stadium's tower (175m) is incorrect... the official stats page of the tower list its "height above the ground" as 164m, not the 175m frequently quoted. My guess is that when the tower was designed, it was supposed to be 175m tall (which is why that number is frequently quoted), but there was a redesign before it's completion in 1987 which reduced it's height  - the reason for that was to reduce its weight & cost, which was also helped by using steel construction for the top half instead of the concrete in the original design.
Kilkenny71 (talk) 19:59, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tour de Montréal 

message: I find it interesting that the Govenment of Quebec's own website for the Olympic Park complex refers to the stadium as Olympic Stadium. I hope that settles the issue, at least as far as for those editors who will accept reliable sources. - BillCJ (talk) 04:42, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: From the horse's mouth

message: An anon IP editor from the City of Montreal inserted a reference that Tallibert's design was based on the Australia Pavilion at Expo 70 in Osaka. While there is indeed a strong similarity I can find no evidence yet that there's anything more to the story, other than the City of Montreal staffer's intriguing original research. Does anyone know if there's any actual evidence showing that the architect was inspired by this? Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:19, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The IP has posted at Wikipedia:New contributors' help page#Olympic Stadium Montreal. PrimeHunter (talk) 18:59, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've restored this edit. Later, when I have time, I'll link to the amazing images.Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:13, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: added images (they're amazing) add proposed a slightly different wording, since we don't (as yet) have written proof that Roger saw and was inspired by this design. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:45, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Australia Pavilion

message: This Parc Olympique includes more than just the Olympic Stadium (Montreal). Peter Horn 16:56, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Such as the Montreal Biodome Peter Horn 17:09, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Absolutely. I had meant to remove the redirect from Parc Olympic to this article and create at least a stub for a new Olympic Park article. An Olympic Village article is also needed, as I believe it is a notable structure and design in its own right. Thanks for raising this, Shawn in Montreal (talk) 17:13, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: See Olympic Park, Montreal. Radagast (talk) 11:41, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  More included 

message: What exactly is in the tower?  Could some content be added describing what it contains? -Rolypolyman (talk) 14:59, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently not all that much. An observation deck at the top, two empty lounges (for weddings, parties, etc) and a 181 seat auditorium--the last two sit unused most of the time, they're rental spaces for the public. There's also a lobby (just empty space) on the ground floor with a gift shop that can also be rented for an event. Don't know if there's offices or anything else...seems like just something for tourists to visit. I'm betting much like the stadium itself, the tower sits empty most of the year.--Apple2gs (talk) 21:25, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The tower 

message: This stadium has been a defunct athletic venue since after the 1976 Summer Olympics and it was converted to baseball and football arena.
Other Olympic venues were converted to sporting arenas:
*Centennial Olympic Stadium - later demolished after the 1996 Summer Paralympics and the site is now called Turner Field for the baseball games. It is the home of Atlanta Braves.
*Stadium Australia - converted to rugby arena after the post-2000 Games, the seating capacity was decreased from 110,000 to 80,000.
ApprenticeFan (talk) 11:16, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  It's not only defunct as an olympic facility, it is now defunct as a sporting stadium too. It ceased as a baseball stadium in 2004, and ceased as a football stadium for the most part--only greycup hosted games are played in it now. The article actually mentions the Alouettes moving back the Molson stadium for all other games (not sure if that was made official yet). It's not even used for trade shows as much in the past because of problems with the roof in winter. It's another white elephant in Montreal, much like Mirabel airport. Both get little use and sit empty most of the year, and seen as hugely expensive mistakes.Apple2gs (talk) 23:55, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Defunct or active? 

message: Does anyone else feel that the article should include at least one photo taken during the 1976 Summer Olympic Games? 66.130.161.95 (talk) 01:46, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Feelings don't matter, legality does. If you have or can find a Public domain image to add, and it's a decent image, then please do so. If you can't find one, then you'll know why the article doesn't have one as yet! - BillCJ (talk) 02:06, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  '76 Olympics photo? 

message: Note # 5 is dead.  Do we have another?  Or was this a hoax? Cs302b (talk) 05:36, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  ESPN note 

message: Would this article discuss about the inclined lift too? Montemonte (talk) 20:52, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inclined lift 

message: Did this stadium inspire the artwork of the stadium depicted inside the gatefold of The Wall by Pink Floyd?76.70.116.108 (talk) 21:26, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Wall 

message: Any source saying that the Olympic Stadium is in fact the tallest stadium in the world? --S23678 (talk) 11:24, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tallest stadium 

message: At present, the Montreal Alouettes football team are only part-time tenants of the Olympic Stadium, and as such the article states using it only for late season, playoff and greycup games.
However there is this section in the article:
"However, it is widely accepted that the team's success has in fact been due to its decision to return to Molson Stadium. The team will instead renovate Percival Molson Stadium to increase the capacity, which may cause them to abandon Olympic Stadium entirely."
It should be noted the Percival Molson Stadium renovations are to be completed late next month (May 2010). Is there any news on whether they plan to completely and permanently move to Molson Stadium for ALL games? Are they no longer going to be tenants of the Olympic Stadium as of May 2010? If so, the article should be updated to reflect that. Well, if/when made official.-Apple2gs (talk) 06:12, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Alouettes to abandon Olympic Stadium?

message: The article states that "the stadium was originally slated to be finished in 1972, but the grand opening was cancelled due to a construction workers strike."
This is misleading.  The chronology of events -- the relationship of cause and effect -- was nothing like what this suggests.
There were two consecutive labour strikes:  from November of 1974 into January of 1975, and from May of 1975 into October of 1975.  These could not possibly have caused a 1972 grand opening to be cancelled.
The resolution to award the design work to the French architect Roger Taillibert was not passed in council until April 24, 1973.
Although technically "ground was broken" in the second quarter of 1973, this amounted to no more than hammering a few surveyors stakes into the ground.  When I saw the site in July of 1973 it was still for the most part an undisturbed empty field.
Photographs I took in November of 1975 show the cantilever consoles still under construction and nothing but daylight between them:  no stands or roof elements yet in place.
Grandmotherfrompeoria (talk) 01:08, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The delays were before the 1972 opening, not the second set of delays you mentioned. The information should really be referenced to avoid confusion like this though. Walter Görlitz (talk) 01:29, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Construction Delays 

message: Question: Was that (1978 World Junior Speed Skating Championships) held at this arena or nearby on a stadium with lesser capacity ? My references to this is these 3 Websites: www.SpeedSkatingStats.com, www.SpeedSkatingNews.info and Archived version dated 2005-March-1 from www.Skatebase.com. So would it be correct to use this article to link it as the stadium of this championship-article ? Regards Migrant (talk) 01:43, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Ping, does anyone know about this for clarifying for the article ? Regards Migrant (talk) 22:10, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

text: Found a local newspaper (The Gazette) source from the event days online with this article Eric, Beth not Heiden in Junior speed skating which was in that paper Monday February 6, 1978. Ps. I also updated the link in the previos statement from SweetNightmares to the archived page, since the old link was a redirect. Regards Migrant (talk) 23:51, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[1978 World Junior Speed Skating Championships]] 

message: This seems no less absurd than listing the result of every baseball or football game played.  I'd be inclined to remove it as clutter.  Any objections? Resolute 13:12, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: No objections here. We don't list the statistics for the Super Bowl games played at the stadiums they were played in, so I'm not sure why we list every soccer game at the stadium they were held in. I've seen this at many other stadium articles too. Perhaps a list article can be created if editors feel the info needs to be present in addition to the stats from the relevant Olympics and World Cup articles. All that needs to be listed here is a section on the Olympic and World Cup soccer events and any significant games that took place there (such as an upset or championship game), but not great detail about the games. That's not what this article is about; it's about the stadium, not every event ever held in the stadium. --JonRidinger (talk) 13:40, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  We shouldn't be listing them. Walter Görlitz (talk) 13:42, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

text: I agree that it is beyond the scope of this article to list all soccer match results within it. Thanks for starting this discussion; I had been meaning to do so but had put it off. isaacl (talk) 16:15, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why are we listing the results of soccer matches here? 

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