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    Most impressive Olympic stadiums

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    By The Week Staff
    published 25 July 2016

    ATHENS, GREECE:

    BERLIN, GERMANY:

    "single-handedly crushed

    myth of

    supremacy".

    TOKYO, JAPAN:

    designed by

    and built between 1961 and 1964

    MUNICH, GERMANY:

    he idea behind the 1972 Munich Olympiastadion was to imitate the Alps and to set a counterpart to the

    in

    . The sweeping and transparent canopy was designed to symbolise the new, democratic and optimistic Germany, reflected in the official

    : "The cheerful Games"

    ("Die Heiteren Spiele").

    (Image credit: Wikicommons)

    SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA:

    BEIJING, CHINA:

    LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM:

    The architects, Wilkinson Eyre and KSS Design group, worked with

    to create lighting and colour‐changing effects for the night events. The result was a dynamic illumination that transformed the white surface into a variety of saturated colours and strong silhouettes of the steel frame, creating the biggest light installation each night in London's Olympic Park.

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