BEIJING (Reuters) - The main stadium for next year's Beijing Olympic Games, the $400 million "bird's nest," will open to the public for the first time in April to host a test event, a state newspaper ...

As the opening date for the London Olympics nears, Beijing's acclaimed Olympic venues are saddled with high maintenance costs and are struggling to get by. And the most famous, the Bird's Nest stadium ...

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BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing's national Bird's Nest stadium will not stage local soccer matches next year as its managers fear the Chinese league's low standing could sully the iconic Olympic venue's ...

BEIJING — The centerpiece of the Beijing Olympics rises 230 feet tall, its lattice of steel beams sometimes vanishing in a thick blanket of smog. Quietly and without fanfare, officials have opened the ...

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Ethiopia's Genzebe Dibaba celebrates after winning the women’s 1500m final at the World Athletics Championships at the Bird's Nest stadium in Beijing, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) ...

Fears that the Bird's Nest and the Water Cube would turn into white elephants, sucking in millions for maintenance, have faded after stakeholders lined up an array of events and attractions to keep ...

Since the opening of the Beijing Olympics four years ago—a declaration of national arrival which awed some and terrified others—the question has lingered of how London would follow it. Comparisons ...

For your information, the main stadiums in Kisumu, Mombasa, Nakuru, and Eldoret have sitting capacity of 5,000 persons, 10,000, persons, 8,200 persons and 10,000 persons respectively The week has been ...