Olympic Stadium Roof Collapses

Media caption up above the stadium s new roof structure.

Olympic stadium roof collapses.

The stadium s cavernous design proved a disaster for major league sports and is. The afas stadium has a capacity of just over 17 000 and officially opened in august 2006 with a friendly against arsenal. No one was injured but the expos had to move their final 13 home games of that season to the opponents cities. Snow came crashing down injuring five people.

It happened monday afternoon as workers prepared for an automotive show at. Work has begun to install a new roof on the olympic stadium as part of a 190m transformation. Dismantling montreal s olympic stadium would be foolish says man in charge the stadium and. Olympic stadium s blue roof and new scoreboard installed in 2015 on september 8 of that year support beams snapped and caused a 55 long ton 62 short ton.

Dramatic aerial footage surfaced on social media showing a harrowing. The roof is so weak that the stadium can t be used as an indoor venue if 1 2 inches or more of snow is forecast. A construction worker died friday during a planned dismantling of the sports and concert complex in st. The peterburgsky stadium one of the biggest stadiums in.

At twice the size. The quebec government has committed to a new 250 million roof for montreal s olympic stadium by 2023. Five people suffered minor injuries when part of the roof of montreal s olympic stadium has collapsed under heavy snow. 56 t concrete slab to fall onto an exterior walkway.

It was the latest chapter in the difficult history of the stadium built for the 1976 summer olympics and home to the montreal expos baseball team. Russian officials say a worker was killed after a soviet era sports complex collapsed during planned demolition work in saint petersburg.