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Shanghai International Circuit (Formula 1) - shown under construction. The main grandstand, pit garages and parts of the circuit can be seen.

The Shanghai International Circuit (Simplified Chinese: 上海国际赛车场, Traditional Chinese: 上海國際賽車場; pinyin: Shànghǎi Guójì Sàichēchǎng) is a brand new motor racing venue, situated near Shanghai in China. It was the venue of the inaugural Formula One Chinese Grand Prix on 26 September 2004.

In common with many other new Formula One circuits, it was designed by Hermann Tilke. Contrary to popular belief, the resemblance of the track layout with the Chinese character shang (上), which means ‘above’ or ‘ascend’, was not intentional, but rather coincidental. One lap lasts 3.4 miles (5.5 kilometres).

Other events held at the circuit include a round of the MotoGP world championship, and the Australian-based V8 Supercar championship.

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Tsukuba Circuit a popular short racetrack which hosts the D1 Grand Prix and other motorsports events.

Hala Olivia is an arena in Gdańsk, Poland. It is primarily used for ice hockey and is the home of Stoczniowiec Gdansk. Hala Olivia opened in 1970 and holds 5,500 people.

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Estadio Luis Tróccoli is a multi-use stadium in Montevideo, Uruguay. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 25,000 and was built in 1964.

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Club: Hamburger SV

Inauguration: 2000

Capacity: 55000 (10000 standing places)

Davis Wade Stadium is the home playing venue for the Mississippi State Bulldogs football team. Located in Starkville, Mississippi, the stadium has a capacity of 55,082. It was built in 1914 as Scott Field and was named for Don Magruder Scott, an Olympic sprinter and one of the University’s first football stars. The name of the playing surface is still Scott Field. It is the second oldest Division I-A college football stadium.

Construction projects in 1936 and 1948 resulted in a concrete grandstand structure with a capacity of 35,000. In 1983, the endzone seating was removed reducing the capacity to 32,000. A 1986 expansion costing $7.2 million, raised without state budget appropriations, added almost 9000 seats consisting primarily of a 5,500-seat upper deck as well as permanent lighting and a computerized scoreboard which was replaced in 1997 with a Sony JumboTron.

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Stock company Automotodrom Brno, was founded in 1994 by two share holders: AMK – Masarykův okruh Brno company and Autoclub of the Czech Republic. Seat of the company is the Automotodrom in Brno.

With entry of a new major share holder Rafas Holding in 2001 we received new possibilities for further development and mainly secured connection on motorsports authorities. These changes brought new impulse for improving the quality of services and development of the Automotodrom Brno not only as a centre of motorsports and sports at all but as well as social life in the region.

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Bronco Stadium is a football stadium in [Boise, Idaho]] on the campus of Boise State University. It is primarily used for American football, and is the home field of the BSU Broncos. The stadium is also the site of the annual MPC Computers Bowl. Most of the local high schools (within Ada County) play their home games at the stadium, on Thursday & Friday nights.

The stadium opened in 1970 as a replacement for the original Bronco Stadium, a small facility built in 1950. The new stadium cost $2.2 million and originally sat 14,500. It originally consisted of two sideline grandstands, the west having a second deck. The field was green astroturf. In 1974 the second deck was added to the east side, bringing the capacity to 20,000, with 2,600 temporary seats brought in for bigger games. A new green astroturf field was installed in 1978. The most notable change occurred in 1986, when the university first installed the stadium’s trademark blue Astroturf (sometimes derided as “Smurf Turf”). It was replaced in 1995, as a part of a major stadium expansion which added seats to both southern ends of the sideline grandstands, which now curved around the stadium’s orange-colored Ed Jacoby Track (orange is the other school color), and adding the Allen Noble Hall of Fame Gallery and the Larry and Marianne Williams Plaza to the southwest corner. Both are attached to the Nicholson-Yanke Athletic Center, an original part of the stadium, as is the Fedrizzi Fitness Center Annex (1988/2004) and the Bronco Football Complex (2000). Since the running track is still in use, the end zone seats remain temporary. The blue Astroturf was replaced in 2004 with blue AstroPlay, a more forgiving athletic field surface. Since the original installation, the NCAA has banned playing surfaces (with the exception of the end zones) in any color other than green. Because Boise State was the only football field at the time in the country with a different colored turf, the university was granted an exemption.

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The Estádio Serra Dourada is a football stadium inaugurated on March 9, 1975 in Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil, with a maximum capacity of 60,000 people. The stadium is owned by the Goiás state Government, and is the home ground of Goiás Esporte Clube and Vila Nova Futebol Clube.

Serra Dourada was completed in 1975 and was inaugurated on March 9 of that year. It was one of the venues of the 1989 Copa América (America’s Cup). The stadium was also the neutral ground used by CONMEBOL in the 1981 Copa Libertadores group stage replay match between Flamengo of Rio de Janeiro, and Atlético Mineiro of Belo Horizonte, in which the Rio de Janeiro club was declared the winner by CONMEBOL, after five Atlético Mineiro players were sent off by the referee José Roberto Wright.

The inaugural match was played on March 9, 1975, when Goiás State All-Stars beat the Portugal national team 2-1. The first goal of the stadium was scored by Portugal’s Octávio. The stadium’s attendance record currently stands at 79,610, set in the inauguration match.

The inauguration of Serra Dourada opened the way for Goiás supremacy in the Goiás State Championship. From 1975 onwards (the so-called “Serra Dourada Era”) the club won the State Championship seventeen times, while Goiânia, once the biggest team in the state, would never win it again.

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Turner Field is a baseball stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. The stadium was originally constructed as the 85,000-seat Centennial Olympic Stadium and used for the Centennial 1996 Summer Olympics. Immediately after the 1996 Summer Paralympics, which followed the Olympics, much of the north end of stadium was removed in order to convert it to its permanent use as a 45,000-seat baseball facility. The stadium has hosted the Atlanta Braves since 1997, following a multimillion-dollar renovation to retrofit the stadium for baseball by removing the temporary stands that had made up nearly half the stadium and building the outfield stands and other attractions behind them. It was the site of the 2000 MLB All-Star Game.

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