When Your Survival Guy and fam were in Paris in May, we took a tour of the Eiffel Tower. Pictures from above showed the construction of one particular Olympic venue. With all the sand, it was guessed to be beach volleyball. Turns out it’s one of the best venues, reports Jason Gay in The Wall Street Journal:
The first few days of the Olympic Games are always a bit of a crabby complaint fest: This is a mess, they did this wrong, this is too small, this is too warm, the beds are hard, the food is weird, I can’t believe they’re making me swim in the Seine.
But this? Paris nailed this, straightaway:
The Beach Volleyball Stadium.
Formally, Eiffel Tower Stadium, because from any vantage point inside this joint, you can’t miss the next door neighbor soaring out of the manicured earth–WOWOWOW!–7,000 tons of iron, 1,083 feet tall, La dame de fer, now 137 years young.
Other outdoor stadiums offer sumptuous views. Washington’s Husky Stadium looks out onto picturesque Union Bay. Colorado’s Folsom Field sits in the shadow of the Rockies. Citi Field, home of the New York Mets, offers an intimate view of congestion at LaGuardia Airport and even the Grand Central Parkway.
This is better. Much better.
Situated on the Champ de Mars, Eiffel Tower is the drop-dead gorgeous sports arena you never thought Earth needed, for a sport seldom considered outside of the Olympic cycle, and it is absolutely the must-have ticket for these Games.
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Originally posted on Your Survival Guy.
