Stadium sights in London
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Lord’s Cricket Ground
The ‘home of cricket’ is a must for any devotee of this peculiarly English game: book early for the test matches here, but it’s also worth taking the absorbing and anecdotal 90-minute tour of the ground and facilities. This interesting tour takes in the famous Long Room, where members watch the games surrounded by portraits of cricket’s great and good, and a museum featuring evocative memorabilia that will appeal to fans old and new. The famous little urn containing the Ashes, the prize of the most fiercely contested competition in cricket, resides here when in English hands. The ground itself is dominated by a striking media centre that looks like a clock radio, but you …
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O2 (Millennium Dome)
The 380m-wide circular Millennium Dome (renamed O2) cost £750 million to build and more than £5 million a year just to keep it erect. It closed at the end of 2000, having failed miserably in its bid to attract 12 million visitors, and was until 2007 for the most part unemployed. Since then it has hosted big acts like Madonna, Prince, Justin Timberlake and Barbara Streisand in its 23, 000-seat 02 Arena and soul, pop and jazz bands in the 2350-seat IndigO2. Massive exhibitions (Tutankhamen and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs, The Human Body) and sporting events have made their temporary homes here and there’s a slew of bars, clubs and restaurants sheltering under what was …
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Olympic Park
Unstoppable is London’s biggest urban development project, the 200-hectare Olympic Park in the Lea River Valley near Stratford, where most of the events of the 2012 Summer Olympiad will take place. Front and centre will be Zaha Hadid’s stunning Aquatic Centre, a building that has yet to be given a moniker (it looks like a wave to us – but deserves the iconic status it will no dout win).
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Brit Oval
Home to the Surrey County Cricket Club, the Brit Oval is London’s second cricketing venue after Lord’s. As well as Surrey matches, it also regularly hosts international test matches. The season runs from April to September.
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