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[mexico1968]

LA84, on Jan. 16 2005,20:03, said:

Thanks for sharing those Mexico  :cool:

The nice part, if they do renovate, is that those nasty scoreboards and speakers will be gone and the peristyle will be restored to the way it was in 1932, when this picture was taken during the Olympics.

Yes..those scoreboards are so ugly..and now there are 3..one in the place the Olympic Rings were..

[Orlando2020]

Wouldn't it be interesting that if Los Angeles does in fact win another Olympic Games, and the Colliseum was the site of the opening and closing ceremonies, that the same cauldron that sits on top of the stadium would be used for the third time for the olympics, and be lit for the second time by a flame from athens? I thought that was interesting.

[baron-pierreIV]

Guardian, on Sep. 06 2005,23:22, said:

Well, the Coliseum is a good candidate to host a World Athletics Championship. Besides, if Helsinki used its Olympic Stadium to do so this year, when why not LA?

Two problems:

1.  The Coliseum is TOO big; it won't fill up for an IAAF Championships;

2.  Retrofitting the Coliseum for a 1-week track meet means laying down a world-class track, which would cost at least $350,000 and which figure could not be recouped from gate receipts.  For 1984, the ARCO Corporation paid for the laying (and removal of) the then-state-of-the-art track at the cost of $250,000-300,000.  

Which is why LA has not bid for such an event.  The last US bid for an IAAF World C's was Stanford for the 2007 one, I think.  The track is there; and the university dorms would've been the Village.

[ejaycat]

baron-pierreIV, on Jan. 18 2005,16:23, said:

I wish they would take down those ugly headless sculptures sitting on the outside.

I actually like those nude sculptures, they were commissioned specifically for the 1984 Olympics.

I remember a week before the '84 Games started, I was watching the news and they interviewed the young gentleman who posed for the male statue.  Hehe, the sculptor made a true likeness of the guy, without his head, of course... I remember the reporter making references to the size of his penis.  Hehe!  I remember being fascinated listening to that as a 14-year-old, and when I saw the statue in person up close, I could see that the guy who posed for it is circumcized.   :: I remember, thinking, 'oh, so THAT'S what the guy looks like under his clothes.'

[Guardian]

baron-pierreIV, on Sep. 07 2005,00:27, said:

Guardian, on Sep. 06 2005,23:22, said:

Well, the Coliseum is a good candidate to host a World Athletics Championship. Besides, if Helsinki used its Olympic Stadium to do so this year, when why not LA?

Two problems:

1.  The Coliseum is TOO big; it won't fill up for an IAAF Championships;

2.  Retrofitting the Coliseum for a 1-week track meet means laying down a world-class track, which would cost at least $350,000 and which figure could not be recouped from gate receipts.  For 1984, the ARCO Corporation paid for the laying (and removal of) the then-state-of-the-art track at the cost of $250,000-300,000.  

Which is why LA has not bid for such an event.  The last US bid for an IAAF World C's was Stanford for the 2007 one, I think.  The track is there; and the university dorms would've been the Village.

That's too bad. It would be great though to have the World Championships there.