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.
the World's Largest Sport Stadium is the Rungrado May Day Stadium in Pyongyang North Korea with a capacity of 150,000. 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.

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