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Olympics Venue that is being used today
The Olympics is the most popular sporting event to watch on TV, but did you know they are still being used? Some of them have been renovated to become something else. Here are seven venues across the world that you did know were Olympics stadiums.
Helsinki Tennis Palace Now A Cinema
During the summer games of 1940, the Olympic committee decided to build a tennis palace, but it was canceled due to World War II and leaving the palace without a purpose, luckily for this building. It wasn’t destroyed in the war. In 1952, it was supposed to host the Summer Olympics, and being called the tennis palace, it was big enough and left abandoned for several years.
Then some business people decided to put this building to use and made it into a 14-theater multiplex big screen equipped with THX and SDDS in all its auditorium rooms. Watching your favorite movies or watching the Olympics on the big screen is so much better.
London Olympic Stadium, 2012 Summer Games
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