Tony E Loves Architecture Posted January 7, 2015 Report Share Posted January 7, 2015 I think you mean "third most populous city"? seeing how Beijing is not the first (Shanghai is). You pretty much just said "China and China," mate. And really, events need to be held to be able to fill those seats. The Nest really isn't getting love thus the seats can't be filled. There just isn't really a steady flow of attractions. Its sad seeing the Birds Nest decay. I like it quite a lot. Yeah I know, I'm talking about China as a Country. China is the most populated Country in the World and they can't fill 80,000 Seats? The Bird's Nest will see some events in the next few years, like the IAAF World Athletics Championships this year and the 2022 Winter Olympics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quaker2001 Posted January 7, 2015 Report Share Posted January 7, 2015 Yeah I know, I'm talking about China as a Country. China is the most populated Country in the World and they can't fill 80,000 Seats? Depends on what the event is. What they have the IAAF Worlds there, they'll fill the stadium. But it's not like they can drop a Chinese league soccer game there and expect to fill the place. China may have a lot of people, but if they're not passionate about sports like those in Europe and North America, they're not going to be able to fill the stadium for anything less than a major event. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron-pierreIV Posted January 7, 2015 Report Share Posted January 7, 2015 Yeah I know, I'm talking about China as a Country. China is the most populated Country in the World and they can't fill 80,000 Seats? The Bird's Nest will see some events in the next few years, like the IAAF World Athletics Championships this year and the 2022 Winter Olympics. Actually, Tony, a number of the Beijing 2008 events were supposedly "sold-out" but there were actually a number of empty seats in the house. Apparently, people in the farms and provinces sent in for tickets...just to have souvenirs of the Olympics, even though they never really actually planned on attending. So would you consider that situation a "sell-out" if there are empty seats but paid for?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony E Loves Architecture Posted January 8, 2015 Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 Depends on what the event is. What they have the IAAF Worlds there, they'll fill the stadium. But it's not like they can drop a Chinese league soccer game there and expect to fill the place. China may have a lot of people, but if they're not passionate about sports like those in Europe and North America, they're not going to be able to fill the stadium for anything less than a major event. I know China won't fill 80,000 Seats for Football. But what about Concerts etc? Actually, Tony, a number of the Beijing 2008 events were supposedly "sold-out" but there were actually a number of empty seats in the house. Apparently, people in the farms and provinces sent in for tickets...just to have souvenirs of the Olympics, even though they never really actually planned on attending. So would you consider that situation a "sell-out" if there are empty seats but paid for?? Well, sold out tells me it goes by how many tickets are sold, which is why it's called sold out. Of course, the attendance in Stadiums should be counted by how many walk through the Stadium entrance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post StefanMUC Posted January 8, 2015 Popular Post Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 I know China won't fill 80,000 Seats for Football. But what about Concerts etc? Well, sold out tells me it goes by how many tickets are sold, which is why it's called sold out. Of course, the attendance in Stadiums should be counted by how many walk through the Stadium entrance. Not everyone walks in though... http://youtu.be/1AS-dCdYZbo 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jiejie Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 Actually, Tony, a number of the Beijing 2008 events were supposedly "sold-out" but there were actually a number of empty seats in the house. Apparently, people in the farms and provinces sent in for tickets...just to have souvenirs of the Olympics, even though they never really actually planned on attending. So would you consider that situation a "sell-out" if there are empty seats but paid for?? The empty seats in Beijing had zero to do with people in farms and provinces wanting souvenir tickets. The empty seats you saw in most events were in the venue sections not sold to the general public. Tickets for general public areas were largely sold out. The empties were restricted seats distributed to Olympic family, federation bigwigs, media, and large Chinese company sponsors who then didn't use them. I was there. It was outrageous but please don't put this on the backs of ordinary Chinese. Most of whom would have killed to attend a session if they could have gotten a ticket. This observation does not apply to the football sessions outside of Beijing, most of which had plenty of empty seats but were held in big stadiums where that was expected. As to why the Bird's Nest isn't used more, two reasons: 1) fee charge too high for most events. 2) censorship under the guise of public safety. All large public events have to be approved by the Public Security Bureau, and getting approval from them for many sorts of things that would be easy in the Western World--like U2 concerts and Billy Graham Crusades--just won't pass muster. That is not likely to change anytime soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob2012 Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 Actually, Tony, a number of the Beijing 2008 events were supposedly "sold-out" but there were actually a number of empty seats in the house. Apparently, people in the farms and provinces sent in for tickets...just to have souvenirs of the Olympics, even though they never really actually planned on attending. So would you consider that situation a "sell-out" if there are empty seats but paid for?? It's well known that that's how they work out the attendances at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium (the stadium in Tony's avatar). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony E Loves Architecture Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 It's well known that that's how they work out the attendances at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium (the stadium in Tony's avatar). I think with all due respect, You can see on TV that nearly every seat inside the Emirates Stadium is filled on Matchdays. Emirates Stadium is well known for filling nearly all seats on Matchdays, even on Capital One Cup Matches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron-pierreIV Posted January 15, 2015 Report Share Posted January 15, 2015 The empty seats in Beijing had zero to do with people in farms and provinces wanting souvenir tickets. The empty seats you saw in most events were in the venue sections not sold to the general public. Tickets for general public areas were largely sold out. The empties were restricted seats distributed to Olympic family, federation bigwigs, media, and large Chinese company sponsors who then didn't use them. I was there. It was outrageous but please don't put this on the backs of ordinary Chinese. Most of whom would have killed to attend a session if they could have gotten a ticket. This observation does not apply to the football sessions outside of Beijing, most of which had plenty of empty seats but were held in big stadiums where that was expected. Well, there was that report from the Beijing 2008 website. So it's not like I made it up. I found it an interesting factoid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony E Loves Architecture Posted January 15, 2015 Report Share Posted January 15, 2015 Like I said before, sometimes, the Attendance is taken by seats sold, other times by entry through the gates. The Emirates Stadium is always nearly sold out, as TV is showing this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zekekelso Posted January 15, 2015 Report Share Posted January 15, 2015 Just having fun with Tony here... but Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phandrosis Posted January 15, 2015 Report Share Posted January 15, 2015 Beijing records worst air pollution this winter Asia Jan. 15, 2015 - Updated 06:08 UTC-5 China's capital Beijing has had its worst air pollution of this winter, prompting officials to extend a warning issued on Monday. Officials at the US Embassy in Beijing say the density of the pollutant PM 2.5 reached 568 micrograms per cubic meter on Thursday afternoon. Thick smog obscured skyscrapers in the capital. Many people outside wore face masks. Officials ordered workers at construction sites in the city not to disperse dust particles, and called on people to wear masks. A woman wearing a face mask said she felt discomfort in her eyes, nose and ears. Another said she wears a mask and stays home as much as possible. China's government says it plans to deal with pollution as a top priority. It has been closing factories that do not meet environmental standards, and ordering reductions on using coal. http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/asia.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony E Loves Architecture Posted January 16, 2015 Report Share Posted January 16, 2015 Just having fun with Tony here... but That was a training session. I know this because Arsene Wenger is on the TV Screen and he won't be on the big TV Screens during an official Football match. I know this because I am an Arsenal fan and I visit the Emirates Stadium on a regular basis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olympiaki-agones Posted February 20, 2015 Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 When is the IOC visiting China? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LatinXTC Posted February 20, 2015 Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 When is the IOC visiting China? March 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony E Loves Architecture Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 I'm looking forward to this. Let's see if anyone else moans about the IOC faking Beijing's ratings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympic Fan Darcy Posted February 25, 2015 Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 I'm looking forward to this. Let's see if anyone else moans about the IOC faking Beijing's ratings. I'm looking forward to you looking forward to this. It's going to be a blast. Won't it just? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony E Loves Architecture Posted February 26, 2015 Report Share Posted February 26, 2015 I'm looking forward to you looking forward to this. It's going to be a blast. Won't it just? What do you mean? All you do is moan that the IOC's evaluation is wrong. It's not wrong. It's the truth. They have no reason to lie, especially with the lack of bidders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woohooitsme83 Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 I think that was sarcasm... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intoronto Posted March 13, 2015 Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 Another reason for Beijing... Will NHL go to Olympics if Beijing wins?An executive with China's public broadcaster CCTV says the NHL has pledged to continue to send its players to the Olympics if China wins the right to host the 2022 Olympic Games. Longmou Li, who has negotiated broadcast rights of National Hockey League games in the world's biggest country, said in an interview that NHL officials have told him that they'd use a China-based winter games to build up the league's popularity in the important emerging market. An NHL spokesman said it's "categorically not true" that any promise has been made to Chinese broadcasters or hockey federation officials. "No such discussions have taken place," he said. "We have heard that is CCTV's desire, but we have had no discussions and made no decisions." The NHL and NHLPA have not said publicly whether they will continue to send NHL players to the Olympics. The International Olympic Committee will convene on July 31 in Kuala Lumpur to decide which country will host the 2022 Winter Games. Beijing is considered a favourite to win those games after Oslo, Stockholm, Munich, two cities in Switzerland, Denver, Krakow and Lviv in Ukraine all dropped out of the bidding. The only other candidate is Almaty, Kazakhstan. Since the NBA All Star break, Chinese officials have held several meetings with NHL executives in New York to begin making the case for the NHL to send players to the Olympics, said a person familiar with the matter. "There are some people in the league who question whether there would be an uptick for our business because we didn't really benefit from Torino or Nagano," the person said, adding that one way for Chinese officials to entice the NHL would be to agree to cover the cost of insurance and travel for players and NHL executives. That bill exceeded $20 million during the Sochi Games. If Beijing wins the right to host the games, it would spark a scramble by Chinese government officials to invest millions of dollars into hockey in an effort to build up a respectable men's national hockey program. Longmou, who is director of hockey programming for CCTV-sports, said NHL officials told him that they are awaiting the July vote before deciding whether to commit the league's players to the 2018 Olympics in South Korea or the subsequent winter games in 2022. "There's no reason the NHL has to go to both," said an NHL source. "You could pass on Korea and cherry-pick China. There's no rule that says the NHL has to go to every Olympics. It's not like the IOC is going to say to the NHL, 'no you can't come to Beijing because you didn't come to Korea.' Hockey is the premier team sport in the Winter Olympics and they want the best players." The upside for the NHL in China is big, Longmou said. Consider that viewership of the Canada-Sweden Olympic gold-medal game during the Sochi Winter Games on CCTV, peaked at 120 million viewers. Canada's CBC, by comparison, reported an average television audience of 8.5 million. Hockey rinks are sprouting throughout China and the number of registered amateur players is climbing. Longmou said the NHL has a significant opportunity in China. "The NBA has come to China but just acts like it wants to make money here," Longmou said. "With the NHL, we've asked them to help us manage a new university league to help build up wide interest in hockey." Lan Li, deputy director of the Winter Sports Administrative Center, which is a government unit that manages public-sector spending on winter sports, said China now has 80 full-size hockey rinks and 120 smaller ones. Each new full-sized rink costs about $2.5 million, he said. "We'll have 500 over the next five years," Lan said. In Beijing, where 15 new rinks have been built over the past two years, 1,700 children are involved in minor hockey. Five years ago, there were 100. "China is getting a new middle class," said Li Ge Liu, president of the Beijing Hockey Federation. "The economy is growing and there's more of a western culture." In 2000, four per cent of urban households in China were considered middle class; by 2012, more than two-thirds of those homes had gained that status, earning between $9,000 and $16,000. In 2022, China's middle class may eclipse 630 million consumers. "The one-child system has been in place for a while and there's pressure for children to succeed at school," Li Ge Liu said. "But that's an individual accomplishment. Some parents see a sport like hockey as a way to teach their kids to learn teamwork." At the same time as Chinese government officials asked the NHL to stage a regular-season game in China as early as next season, four executives with Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment visited China in November for meetings to help grow hockey in China, an untapped frontier for many sports leagues around the world. Last March, an indication that Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment realizes the potential of the Chinese market, the Leafs converted all of their rink boards to Chinese to "welcome Chinese viewers." Five months later, the team sent staff to Beijing and Shanghai to stage hockey camps for young amateur players and helped to produce of a 10-part "Hockey 101" series to be included in NHL broadcasts on CCTV in China to educate viewers. There already are signs that China, a non-traditional hockey market to be sure, is open to hockey. Last year, the state broadcaster CCTV began showing four live NHL games every week. This is CCTV's second year of a three-year deal with the NHL. NHL games broadcast on the weekend in China have attracted an average 800,000 households - airing at 7 a.m. local time. By comparison, televised Leafs games in Canada with national distribution this season have attracted about 1.5 million viewers. This year, Beijing's 150 registered teams have 2,300 players between the ages of 6 and 15, MLSE says. Still, there are challenges to growing hockey in China. For starters, it's an expensive sport, thanks to 30 per cent import duties for hockey equipment shipped from the west and expensive ice time. There are politics to consider. In 2005, the newspaper Beijing Today accused western soccer teams of "gold-digging," using their tours of China solely to build their brand and commercial presence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ofan Posted April 7, 2015 Report Share Posted April 7, 2015 With social media becoming more and more relevant and important in today's age, especially in covering events like the Olympics, how will a censorship of websites like Twitter and Instagram affect the coverage of an Olympics in China? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger87 Posted April 19, 2015 Report Share Posted April 19, 2015 Kazakhstan is not exactly an innocent lamb related to censorship and human rights issues either. So, in this aspect Beijing isn't in key dissadvantage related to these points. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TorchbearerSydney Posted April 20, 2015 Report Share Posted April 20, 2015 Kazakhstan is not exactly an innocent lamb related to censorship and human rights issues either. So, in this aspect Beijing isn't in key dissadvantage related to these points. As much as I love Central Asia, I think you will find pretty much all the Central Asian Republics are more repressive than China.. Agreed, As much as I love Central Asia, I think you will find pretty much all the Central Asian Republics are more repressive than China.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger87 Posted April 20, 2015 Report Share Posted April 20, 2015 This 2022 WOG race will end like Alien vs. Predator regarding the human rights and chlensorship. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TorchbearerSydney Posted April 20, 2015 Report Share Posted April 20, 2015 This 2022 WOG race will end like Alien vs. Predator regarding the human rights and chlensorship. And boy that was a bad movie!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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