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Shanghai sports stadium focuses on human-based design
By Guan Xiaomeng (Chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2007-06-28 21:50
As the major stadium of the 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games and
the venue for one of the first round football game of next year's Bejing
Olympic, Shanghai sports stadium is aiming for a human-based sports
facility.
Auditorium seats of Shanghai Stadium, the main venue of the 2007 Special
Olympics World Summer Games and the venue for one of the first round
football game of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games are seen in this photo
taken in June 25, 2007. The new seats can be folded and feel more
comfortable than previous ones. [chinadaily.com.cn]
"We will equip the stadium with facilities free of all obstacles to make
special and disabled athletes go anywhere easily," said Li Ming, board
chairman of Shanghai East Asia, the company running the stadium.
The chairman said efforts were also made to make the audiences more
comfortable, "We have arranged folding soft seats so the room will be
larger when getting the chairs folded if no one sits."
Li suggested making the English characters on the bilingual signs larger,
"The English language characters are too small and foreign friends
couldn't see them clearly."
The company also has a way to adjust Games sponsors. According to Li,
China Netcom, the official sponsor for Beijing Olympic Games and China
Telecom, sponsor for Shanghai Special Games will both have their
communication cable during the special games, "We will adjustment well to
make sure the communication smooth and the sponsors profit well," Li said.
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