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When hosting the Olympic Games, there must be a main stadium, just like the Bird’s Nest of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. It is inseparable from a large number of track and field competitions and venues for the opening and closing ceremonies. The Tokyo Olympics has also built a new home stadium for this purpose, but its fate is surprising.

National Stadium of Japan (picture from Arne Müseler / Wikipedia) ▼

The main stadium of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics is commonly referred to as the New National Arena by the Japanese public. Of course, its official name does not have the word “new”. The location of the new National Stadium is the location of the former National Xiaqiu Track and Field, and this track and field has a considerable relationship with the Olympics. The main venue of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics is it.

The construction is completed, and the Olympic Games to be held this year will not be used (picture from f11photo / Shutterstock.com) ▼

But it should be noted that this venue was not originally a product designed for the 1964 Olympic Games alone, but for the 1958 Tokyo Asian Games and the 1959 National Sports Conference. (equivalent to the National Games of China) The venues that were built were only used when they arrived in 1964.

The third Asian Games (picture from: “Photography Bulletin” / Wikipedia) ▼

One of the stamps of the third Asian Games issued on May 24, 1958: National Stadium theme (picture from: Wikipedia) ▼

For Tokyo, which has a lot of land and money, it is not a good economic choice to open another venue to build a new gymnasium. Continued use of the land in the heritage area at the time of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics could save some expenses. But at the same time, in order to show the face of the new era, it is not justified to directly use the main stadium in the past, and the rebuilding of the original site is gradually put on the agenda.

Too close to 14 million people in Tokyo will find it difficult to make new venues for the Olympic Games (picture from vichie81 / shutterstock) ▼

In fact, it is very common for such a stadium to be built in the 1950s. Someone had an idea for it in 2008 when it was 50 years old. At that time, people had noticed the old state of the ground and had conducted a series of investigations and studies to prepare to transform it into a stadium.

Always used as a venue for large-scale sports events and concerts (November 3, 2004Picture from Wikipedia) ▼

The timing also came later. Tokyo later declared for the 2016 Summer Olympics. At the time, plans were made to build a new main stadium at Harumi Pier, and the transformed Xiaqiu track and field was used as a venue for football and other competitions. Unfortunately, everything seemed logical, but Japan lost to Rio de Janeiro in the battle for the right to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, and the plan was shelved.

One of the programs of the opening ceremony of the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games “Japanese immigrants to Brazil” (picture from AgênciaBrasil / Wikipedia) ▼

Every city hosting the Olympic Games is a metropolis with relatively complete infrastructure,

The Olympic Games, like this, will be able to do so.

(Para Olympic Park Picture from AndréMotta / brasil2016.gov.br / Wikipedia) ▼

However, Japan is not discouraged and is still pursuing the Olympic dream of the new century.

In 2011, Tokyo proposed a bid to host the 2020 Olympic Games. In the same year, Shintaro Ishihara, then governor of Tokyo, also announced on July 16 that the venues for the Olympic Games will be based on the “Green Olympics”. Existing facilities will be used as much as possible. The existing Xiaqiu track and field stadium is the bidding scheme for the main stadium.

Support for the bid! (2012.11.11 Picture from Takagi Aya / Wikipedia) ▼

However, in the subsequent testing process, the old stadium still has the problem of aging equipment. After several studies, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and Japan Sports Promotion Center decided to rebuild the stadium. The good news also came two years later, and Tokyo won the right to host the 2020 Summer Olympics. It plans to use the new National Arena as the main stadium for the opening and closing ceremonies and related events.

The Torch Head of the 1964 Olympic Games in the National Xiaqiu Stadium (picture from Dddeco / Wikipedia) ▼

The reconstruction started like this. Initially, the design plan of Zaha Hadid’s team of British-born Iraqi female architects was adopted. (Beijing Daxing International Airport was developed by (Designed by the team) , but the cost is more than 300 billion yen, more than double the 130 billion set budget. The not-so-poor Japanese government can hardly afford such a huge amount of money. The plan has been optimized several times and the venue budget has been set at 252 billion yen, but it is still the most expensive in history.

Many famous large modern buildings worldwide are designed by this team

(Zaha team’s gym design for Japan)

(picture from ZahaHadid Architects / YouTube) ▼

Excessive budget puts huge pressure on the Olympic Organizing Committee and the Japanese Cabinet. In desperation, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said in 2015 that he would revise the construction plan while limiting the funding to 155 billion. This time, the selection The focus is on cutting costs and working hours.

In December 2015, the new plan was won by Kengo Kuma’s team, with a total cost of 148.9 billion. However, construction did not begin until December of the following year, and it took three years to complete and officially open at the end of last year.

Some alterations are more troublesome than new construction (2017.9.2 Picture from Jiang 戸 Village の と く ぞう / Wikipedia) ▼

At the same time, Japan ’s investment in venues for this Olympic Games is not limited to this. For example, the water sports center in Tokyo ’s Tatsumi International Swimming Pool, which was officially opened on March 22, is one of them. It means that all new permanent venues for the Olympic Games will be completed.

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Each Olympic Games is actually an opportunity for a country to vigorously develop its infrastructure. There are still many clear memories in people’s memory, such as the Rio Metro Line 4 of the Rio Olympic Games, the Beijing-Tianjin Intercity of Beijing Summer Olympics, The Beijing-Zhangzhou High Speed ​​Rail in the Beijing Winter Olympics, but the most famous, is the Japanese Shinkansen that opened on the eve of the Summer Olympics in 1964. At that time, this high-speed rail service that served the East Coast earned the attention of all countries in the world, and in fact created the first year of the world’s high-speed rail.