The Tianjin Olympic Center (), often colloquially referred to as the Water Drop (), is a sports complex with a

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Tianjin Tianjin (; ; Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Tientsin (), is a municipality and a coastal metropolis in Northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the nine national central cities in Mainland China, with a total popu ...

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. Construction started in August 2003 and was completed in August 2007. It is the home stadium of

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. The stadium hosted games for the

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and Football preliminaries at the

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. It also hosted the Athletics competitions at the

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. It covers 78,000 square meters and has a capacity of 54,696 seats. It as a length of , a width of , and a height of 53 meters. The stadium is nicknamed "The Water Drop" because the outside of the venue was designed to resemble a drop of water. The stadium cost nearly 1.5 billion Yuan. The architects were AXS Satow. In 2011, the venue hosted a football match between Tianjin TEDA F.C. and the Spanish side

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. The stadium houses sports facilities, exhibition halls, conference rooms and gyms. It also has the capacity for entertainment and shopping complexes. American singer and recording artist

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performed

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in the stadium on 17 October 2014 and thus making her as the only international artist to have visited Tianjin.

References

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