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CONTENTS HOW HAS GROWING INTEREST

H O W H A S G R O W I N G I N T E R E S T I N S P O R T

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Etihad Stadium ........................................................................................ 4

Rod Laver Arena ....................................................................................... 5

National Sports Museum .......................................................................... 6

Melbourne Cricket Ground ..................................................................... 6

Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre ................................................... 7

Commonwealth Games & Olympics...................................................... 8

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Because of growing interest in sport, Melbourne has had to build more sport facilities to accommodate sporting needs. Throughout the magazine are buildings in Melbourne which are a combination of renovated, new, and old buildings. After undergoing renovations are complete Melbourne will be the largest precinct of sporting facilities in the world.

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Growing interest in Sport

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Sporting interest has rocketed to the sky over the past centuries. Sport has always been a major interest throughout the world in competition and recreation. Due to growing interest in sport and recreation, Melbourne has been affected by building new and improved modern buildings and facilities for both the athletes,spectators and sporting enthusiasts. Sporting events bring in many tourists and spectators. Melbourne is famous for holding The Melbourne Cup, AFL football matches, Australian Open, The Grand Prix.

They have also hosted the Olympic games, Commonwealth games and Ashes cricket series.

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ETIHAD STADIUM

Etihad Stadium was formerly known as Colonial Stadium, they then changed it to Telstra Dome and now it is named Etihad Stadium. Etihad is not owned by the government and they changed their names to the company name of their sponsors. The company’s pay millions of dollars for the naming rights.

The roof of Etihad Stadium takes exactly 8 minutes to open and close. It moves east to west and vice- versa. The distance from the playing field to the roof is 38 meters. The ground area is 19, 000 meter squared and is covered in a mixture of natural and synthetic grass. The Etihad Stadium can seat 12, 000 - 74,

The Stadium can be transformed to suit several different occasions such as; concerts, AFL, Soccer, Rugby, Corporate Functions, Conferences, Cricket. It takes two weeks to set up the stage for a concert. The workers work 24\7 and swap shifts so they can get a break. 24 million people have walked through the doors of the stadium since it opened in 2000. Etihad has a bar and restaurant and a

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Rod Laver Arena is a part of Melbourne Park. Melbourne Park is the main venue for the Australian Open and has been since 1988. Rod Laver Arena hasn’t always been called Rod Laver Arena. From 1998 - 1994 it was called Centre Court and from 1994 - 2000 it was called National Tennis Centre at Flinders Park. The name was changed to honor an Australian tennis player, Rod Laver, a three time winner of the Australian Open and one of the greatest tennis players of all time.

The Arena can seat more than 16,000 people and is one of the first arenas to have a retractable roof. The roof takes 25 minutes to open and close.

Rod Laver Arena can also do other events apart from tennis. It can do Ballet Concerts, Motorbike Super- crosses, Music Concerts, Conferences, World Wrestling Entertainment Events, Basketball and other sports competitions.

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NATIONAL SPORTS MUSEUM

The National Sports Museum is known as the ‘Home of Australian Sport.’ The museum houses the Sport Australian Hall of Fame, Australian Cricket Halle of Fame, Australian Football Exhibition and Hall of Fame and the Australian Gallery of Sport and Olympic Museum

MELBOURNE CRICKET GROUNDMelbourne Cricket Ground is also known as the MCG. The Melbourne Cricket Ground is an Australian Sports stadium, located in Yarra Park, Melbourne and home to the Melbourne Cricket Club. It is the largest stadium in Australia and part of the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Precinct. This stadium has no roof and can seat 100,000 people. The MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground) was built in 1854 and has had many renovations since. There are statues outside of the stadium of famous Australian athletes. The group of statues is also known as the ‘Parade of Champions’ and they feature four crickets players, four AFL players and two field and track athletes. There are many events held at the MCG. Cricket and Australian Rules Football (AFL) are the most played sports on the grounds. Soccer, tennis, cycling and rugby have been played at

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MSACThe Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre (MSAC) is a sporting venue located in Albert Park, Victoria, Australia. It was opened on July 24th 1997 and cost $AUD65 million to build. The Melbourne Vicentre Swimming Club is the home of MSAC and also the prime venue for Diving Victoria. MSAC has several swimming pools, 10 indoor basketball courts, 10 squash coats, 12-18 badminton courts, 18-33 table tennis courts and 3 volleyball courts. MSAC held the Aquatic, Squash and Table Tennis events during the 2006 Commonwealth Games. They have also held a Swimming World Cup, World Squash Championships, World Masters Games, Deaflypic Games and 2007 12th FINA World Swimming Championships. There is also a Health and Wellness Centre and that has a Fitness Centre, Soul Pilates Studio, Lakeside Sports

Recreation at MSAC In MSAC you can participate in many

recreational activites, such as: swimming, gym/physical training, badminton, basketball, squash, table tennis, volleyball, diving and water aerobics.

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HOW HAS GROWING INTEREST IN SPORT AFFECTED MELBOURNE?

The growing interest in sport has allowed Melbourne to hold the Olympics in 1956. If Melbourne wasn’t finished in preparations to hold the Olympics, Rome was going to instead because they were ready for the 1960 Olympics. The Olympic stand was demolished at the MCG in 2004. The former Olympic Pool remains at the Westpac Centre as a part of the Olympic Park Complex. The former athletes village remains in Heidelberg West, Victoria, as public housing. St. Kilda Hall, where the fencing events were held, still remain. 67 nations competed in the 1956 Olympics. All Olympic events were held in Melbourne with the exception of Equestrian events because of Quarantine. These were held in Sweden, 5 months before. These have had an impact because Melbourne was chosen in 1949 to host the 1956 Olympic Games. The tourism would have been enormous Some of the events that are held in Melbourne are AFL games, Grand Prix, Melbourne Cup Carnival, Spring Racing Carnival, Australian Open, V8 Supercars, Cricket, Audi Victoria Week (Yachts), Rip Curl Pro (Surfing), Australian Post Stawell Gift (Running), Warrnambool Race Day Carnival, JBWere Masters (Golf), EQUITANA Melbourne (Equestrian) and more.

The Commonwealth Games have also had an effect on Melbourne by attracting many people and possibly the same outcome of the Olympic Games. It would’ve attracted tourists, money and lots and lots of sales! It was the largest sporting event to be held in Melbourne and it eclipsed the Summer Olympics in 1956 by the number of countries, athletes competing and events being held. The Opening and Closing Ceremonies were both held at the MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground). There were 13 venues that were used for the Games in Melbourne and 6 venues were Regional and Suburban venues. The cost for hosting the games was 1.144 billion dollars.

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ROD LAVER ARENA Sketch-up design by student

Rod Laver Arena

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