stade olympique ,

when you think barren winter landscape, you automatically think canada, right? who wouldn’t? well, apparently, the olympic planning committee did not, because instead of making it a site of the winter olympics, the stade olympique was created for the 1976 summer olympics. just because it’s been over thirty years since that olympic competition was on doesn’t mean it hasn’t seen some action. it’s since become the home of montréal’s baseball and canadian football teams. naturally, it also contains an olympic sized pool and plays host to the tallest inclined tower in the world. however, with its many financial and structural problems, it’s mostly seen as a white elephant by the locals. a more accurate term, however, would be chrome elephant. since it’s all shiny, but also useless.