Sporting Stadiums Trivia
Where does the word stadium come from? At the first recorded ancient Olympic Games, there was only one event - the stade. The stade was a unit of measurement (about 600 feet) that also became the name of the footrace because it was the distance run. Since the track for the stade (race) was a stade (length), the location of the race became the stadium.
More Stadium Trivia
- The World's Largest Sport Stadium is the Narendra Modi Stadium in Gujarat, India with a capacity of 132,000. See top 10 list of largest stadiums.
- The Melbourne Cricket Ground light towers use 720,000 kW of electricity each year - enough to power 153 homes. The MCG also hosted the first-ever Cricket Test Match, between England and Australia in 1877.
- The biggest attendance at a sporting event held in an enclosed stadium was unofficially 199,854 for the Brazil vs. Uruguay match in the World Cup Final of 1950, on the 16th June, at the Maracana stadium. See more of the world's largest sporting crowds.
- Two stadiums have hosted both the Winter Olympics and the FIFA World Cup: the Stadio Olimpico in Turin, Italy and the Fisht Olympic Stadium in Sochi Russia.
Related Pages
- More sporting trivia
- Top-10 largest stadiums in the world
- Largest sporting crowds
- FIFA World Cup Stadiums
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