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Re. Governance. The word among City officials is that much of the latter part of Bloomberg's 12-year tenure as mayor of New York was inspired and motivated by what he observed in London.
Ah, so. I'm still not quite clear on how London's sports stadiums are supposed to be better. You were listing stadia by capacity, so I assumed you were using that as some kind of rubric. You did a listing of stadia capacity for NYC, but didn't do the same for London. I did take a look at a few of the London ones, but I didn't see any appreciably large difference in capacity. O2 Arena was at 20K which on the smaller side compared to the NYC stadia you've listed. The courts used for Wimbledon have pretty small seating capacities with the main court at 15K (which is what the size of the smaller court for the US Open is going to be). The Royal Albert Hall is just shy of 6K. Is there something I'm missing here?
The bit youre missing is that there are so many stadia in London, the only city that can publicly seat over a million punters. It has 4 venues over 80,000, 2 over 60,000 (and a third under construction), for starters.
Ah, so. I'm still not quite clear on how London's sports stadiums are supposed to be better. You were listing stadia by capacity, so I assumed you were using that as some kind of rubric. You did a listing of stadia capacity for NYC, but didn't do the same for London. I did take a look at a few of the London ones, but I didn't see any appreciably large difference in capacity. O2 Arena was at 20K which on the smaller side compared to the NYC stadia you've listed. The courts used for Wimbledon have pretty small seating capacities with the main court at 15K (which is what the size of the smaller court for the US Open is going to be). The Royal Albert Hall is just shy of 6K. Is there something I'm missing here?
I have already listed a lot of London's venues earlier in the thread, however I will start with football (soccer) and Rugby.
Wembley Stadium in London, the National Football (Soccer) Stadium has a capacity of 90,000, it also host regular NFL Games as well as International Football (Soccer) games
Twickenham Stadium in London is the English National Rugby Stadium and has a capacity of 82,000, it hosts an array of international Rugby every season including the Six Nations and Autumn Internationals.
Olympic Stadium London in Stratford, hosted the 2012 Olympics and had a capacity of 80,000 for Athletics bit now as a multi-sport venue will have a lower capacity. It will be home to West Ham Football Club who will move from the Boleyn Ground/Upton Park (35,000 Capacity) from 2016 with a football (soccer) capacity of 54,000.
The Emirates Stadium at Ashburton Grove in North London has a capacity of over 60,000 and is home to Arsenal Football Club, it is home to both national and regular European Champions League Football.
Stamford Bridge is home to Chelsea Football Club in London, with the club recently announcing that they may make temporary use of Twickenham Rugby Ground whilst they increase the capacity of the ground from over 41,000 to over 60,000.
White Hart Lane in London is currently home to Tottenham Hotspur Football Club who have have recently announced plans to move from the 36,000 seat ground to a new 58,000 seat ground next door.
Whilst Brentford are currently in the process of moving from Griffin Park (12,000) to a new 20,000 seat stadium which they will share with London Welsh (Rugby)
Other grounds such as Twickenham Stoop home to Harlequins Rugby Club and the Matchwood Stadium (Brisbane Road) home of Leyton Orient are also worthy of note.
Whilst Wimbledon (Tennis) is planning large scale redevelopment including remodeling Court Number 1 and putting a retractable roof over similar to that which is now in operation over Centre Court (15,000).
In terms of Arenas I agree the ones in London are not significantly bigger than the US Arenas in terms of the O2 Arena and Wembley Arena, however in terms of the Royal Albert Hall it's a concert hall and only hosts the masters tennis as a bit of fun.
Both Wembley Arena and the O2 have hosted basketball and ice hockey including both domestic league games and international games, including nne other than the New York Rangers who played the Toronto Maple Leafs at Wembley Arena in 1993, the NY Rangers winning both games.
Whilst the New York Knicks play the Milwaukee Bucks in a couple of weeks time at the O2 in London on 15 January 2015.
PS If you want I can also list racecourses and golf courses, as London has lots of world famous ones, just they are not really stadiums in the true sense of the word.
Yes, it's not so much about the individual capacities of each venue but the sheer variety and amount of international events hosted in some of these stadia.
Anyway on a completely different note, this is gorgeous:
As well as London's Lea Valley and Queen Elizabeth Park sports facility in East London, other new facilities include the Allianz Park Sporting facilities in North London and a possible redevelopment of the sports facilities at Crystal Palace Athletics Track.
The Allianz Park is home to London Rugby Football Team Saracens.
Re. Governance. The word among City officials is that much of the latter part of Bloomberg's 12-year tenure as mayor of New York was inspired and motivated by what he observed in London.
Geneva and Vienna also house massive UN complexes, but it means very little to honest, whilst in terms of stock markets the Chinese will eventually become the biggest stock market.
London is home to numerous embassies, is a capital city and is home to the UK Government, in respect of the US these functions are carried out in Washington DC and not NYC.
NYC is not even politically the most influential city in the US never mind the world. As for the UN does anyone listen to it, as even the host country the US refuses to ratify a lot of UN legislation.
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