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Baseball
Stadium
(Showground
Main Arena)
The Baseball Stadium is the
centre of activity during the annual Sydney Royal Easter Show and throughout the
Games, will host all baseball events. The covered grandstand and open-air tiered grass banks bring the Baseball Stadium to a seating capacity
of 20,000. The grandstand has rooms that can be used for corporate dinners,
seminars and cocktail dinners as well as larger rooms that can seat
up to 300 people.
The
Dome & Pavilions
(Showground Exhibition Complex)
The Dome will host Basketball
preliminaries during the 2000 Games (finals will be held in the SuperDome)
for both Olympic and Paralympic events. For the Olympics, Rhythmic Gymnastics,
Volleyball, Badminton, Handball and training will take place in
various pavilions in the showground. Paralympic Judo, Boccia, Volleyball,
Rugby, Fencing, Powerlifting, Goalball and training will also take place
in the pavilions.
Sydney
International Athletics Centre
(Athletics
Warm-up Venue)
The Sydney International
Athletics Centre, open since 1994, is a multi-functional, two arena complex
that is an international standard track and field facility, holding
competition events and training for both amateurs and elite sporting
groups. The main competition arena seats a total of 15,000 (5,000 grandstand
and 10,000 temporary seating on grass banks) and is used as a venue
for national championships, little athletics, schools, veteran and disabled
training and athletics.
The 40,000 cubic metres of
earth removed during the building of the centre have been re-used for
landscaping and the temporary seating on the grass banks. During the
Games, the Athletics Centre will only be used as a warm up and training venue,
the actual competition being held in the Olympic Stadium, but it will
return to its role of the premier athletics venue after the Olympic and
Paralympic Games.
State
Hockey Centre
The $15.5 million dollar
complex next to the State Sports Centre is currently host to only hockey
(carnivals, teams and school events) but during the Games will be hosting
Hockey and Paralympic Soccer. Currently only housing a crowd capacity
of 2,275, temporary seating will be added during the Games to boost
the capacity to 15,000 seats. The complex consists of 2 fields, one
a newer, competition pitch. Each of the pitches are synthetic and are
91.44 x 54.86m. The newer pitch is aligned to provide best conditions
for both players and the crowd. Both pitches will be resurfaced this
year so the surfaces will be at their best during the 15 days that Olympic Hockey
will be played at the complex. The complex has all the accessibility
and environmental features of the other venues (wheelchair access, fully
accessible toilets, tactile floor tiles, energy efficient lighting and
natural ventilation).
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