4/7/2024 0 Comments Isinbaeva elena rocksLuzhniki Stadium will be reconstructed to meet FIFA's requirements for World Cup hosts. "When I saw the full stands at Luzhniki and how people cheered for our athletes, for Lena Isinbayeva, I remembered the Olympic Games in Moscow and how the huge stadium had cheered for you," Alexander Zhukov, president of the Russian Olympic Committee, said to a group of 1980 Olympics champions this week. Luzhniki was also the setting for the last concert of Viktor Tsoi before the 28-year-old Russian rock legend died in a car crash later that summer. It hosted the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1980 Summer Olympics as well as concerts by the Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi and Madonna that brought the West closer to the former Soviet republic. ![]() The stadium, which opened in 1956 after just 450 days of construction, has been the site of numerous seminal cultural and sporting events in Russia's history. The athletics championships is the last event that Luzhniki is hosting before closing for reconstruction in preparation for the 2018 World Cup. ![]() The roar that rocked Luzhniki Stadium as national favorite Yelena Isinbayeva won gold in the pole vault at the world athletics championships on Tuesday marked a long-awaited moment for the people gathered in the stands.įor Russian sports veterans, it was also a reminder of the stadium's former Olympic glory and of the fact that the legendary venue, much like Isinbayeva, is about to take an extended break from sports.
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