The much anticipated Olympic swim facility at the Beijing National Aquatics Center was unveiled to the public for the first time on Monday. The center was built for the 2008 Olympic Games, but will play host this week to the “Good Luck Beijing” Swimming China Open.
The state-of-the-art facility was designed to look like a cube of water (as I reported back in July HERE)…. and along with the “Bird’s Nest” Stadium next door, would be the symbols of China’s oppression progression into a 21st century world leader. Some details about the facility:
> The Water Cube is the only Olympic venue funded by $110 million in donations from ethnic Chinese living outside mainland China.
> The structure was designed by an Australian consortium and work started on it 2003.
> The squat box-like structure — with three pools below ground level — is made up of a steel skeleton sheathed in a Teflon-like plastic that resembles bubbling water and gives the venue its name.
> More than half the Beijing venues, including the Water Cube, are concentrated in one small area in the north of the city known as the Olympic Green. [link]
> The Water Cube will be renamed The Waterboarding Cube after the Olympic Games and be the Communist party’s torture training facility for reluctant aspiring young party members.
Umm…OK!….I fibbed that last part.
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