I'm up to see speed skating, hockey, skiing, bobsledding, and watching female figure skaters fall on their butts to the tune of Bizet's Carmen..... the opening/closing ceremonies will be held at B.C. Place Stadium....
Downtown Vancouver including proposed new roof on B.C. Place Stadium for 2011....But I wouldn't be a proper Tulsa soccer guy if I didn't mention at least a couple of local connections to Canuckville.....
Tulsa seemed to be enamored with Vancouver architect Bing Thom, who designed "The Channels"........and the River improvements proposed by Kaiser....On the waterfront: Designer goes with river's flow By BRIAN BARBER World Staff Writer
Published: 7/23/2006 9:12 AM
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=060723_Ne_A21_Desig7205&archive=yesB.C. Place Stadium first opened in 1983 and hosted Soccer Bowl '83.....October 10, 1983
Blowing Out The BlizzardTulsa won Soccer Bowl '83 with a little assist from the NASL bosshttp://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1121360/index.htmThis was Tulsa's fourth game in 10 days, and it had been just 48 hours since the Roughnecks had gotten their first glimpse of Vancouver's new domed B.C. Place Stadium and the intimidating breadth of its soccer field—at 76 yards, the broadest in the league. The second-narrowest, at 64 yards, is at Skelly Stadium in Tulsa, where, on Wednesday night, the Roughnecks' three-game semifinal with Montreal had ended in a handy 3-0 Tulsa victory.
Soccer Bowl 1983 Tulsa vs. Toronto from B.C. Place Stadium, Vancouverhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QubCSWZanEQ