The ideal stadium

[PJS]

Dear all...

I need to get this one off my chest...to be clear I am not an expert just a fan - I posted already my disappointment with the level of performances at Day 2 of the UK trials and I know this here posting is likely to be ridiculed but...

If, and its a very big if IMHO, weather factors are really giving our athletes a distinct disadvantage - could we not take a closer look at stadium design?

Could we not take inspiration from the Eden Project in Cornwall = which is embedded in former quarries - or the new Velodrome on the Olympic Park - with its attention to detail to heat, draft - or Cardiff's Millennium stadium with its retractable roof. and build a 400m track, using these principles and others, so that it is not exposed to the unpredictable weather ...

Yes, I do realise its never going to happen (funding blah blah blah) but as part of a regeneration project of an area where maybe quarrying once took place, or open cast mining, or a disused industrial site, an opportunity might just present itself ....

what would we require .. the track of course...but other ideas...discuss

[Geoff]

I know it would never have happened but if the Olympic Stadium had the support of say Spurs and West Ham plus others and was designed with the most up to date and imaginative retractable seating to accommodate a track and pitch it could have had a retractable roof. If everyone had worked together it would have been worth the extra £300m or so through increased revenue streams. Not now though!

[ultragirl]

Wouldn't something like that be absolutely awesome and a great magnet for fans especially thr World Championships, pity ewe have to suffer the effects of individual ego's when we could have benefitted so much by a meeting of minds. This is the recurring british theme though isn't it!

[Kermit]

With most of our funded athletes training on strips that are the same as the Olympic stadium, with the BUCS championships being held at the Olympic stadium why on earth wasn't the Olympic trials held in the Olympic stadium? Surely that would of been inspirational

[trickstat]

With most of our funded athletes training on strips that are the same as the Olympic stadium, with the BUCS championships being held at the Olympic stadium why on earth wasn't the Olympic trials held in the Olympic stadium? Surely that would of been inspirational

It is currently being prepared for the opening ceremony

[oldboy]

My suggestion for the ideal stadium would have the track markings such that the staggers are in the straights and not on the bends. This would make the work done by all athletes to negotiate the bends numerically identical in each lane and, therefore, fairer.
The effort required to negotiate the curve remains the same as now, but the time that it is applied would be greater once you move out of lane1.The product of effort x time would be the same for all lanes.

It would, of course, require an additional starting /winning post with all that that entails

I have made this suggestion before, but nobody reacted to it; so perhaps everyone is happy with the present unfair arrangement.