Parc Olympique de Montréal

Bonjour, 

the torch at the Montréal Olympic house  in Downtown was a highlight for me at the St. Patricks day.

Today i visited with the one and only "Montréal Olympic Park Lexicon Nicolas" the Olympic park in Montréal. He literally knew everything about the park, the games and the national political situation at that time and even today. It was amazing! 

We met at the station Viau and I found myself directly looking at this huge inconsistent tower. He told me, that this is the highest tower under inclination in the world (in my heart it is still the Tower of Pisa).

 The steel ropes you see at the tower were used in former times, 1976 exactly, to take off the roof of the stadium. Actually it has been removed and a new roof was installed, which is now too weak for all the snow. So no winter parties at the olympics house. 

 The tower reminded me actually at ski-jumping... and yes next winter they will install something like that. 

 Nowadays around the olympic park is the Montréal soccer stadium, a planetarium, a bio-dome (with three different biotopes). One should be a tropical area, one is antarctic flavor and the last is north american. And they have a museum for natural sciences somewhere. The planetarium is in the picture above, they build it like two years ago. 

 At some point I was wondering about the East-German flag, which was still blowing in the wind... he was really strikt about the fact, that at the times, when the olympic games were hosted by Montréal, Germany was still separated... iI had no comeback to that... even seeing the two german flags next to the the korean ones was a very unusual picture to me. 

 UFO alarm!

 At the side he told me a nice story. Canada were hosting one summer olympic games and two winter games. Te first two olympics Canada was the first country not to win any gold medal in their hosting olympics. But in the last one in Vancouver they put up a record for the most winning gold medals of a hosting country. Haha I guess 14 it were

 This is the original olympic flag from that times, which was lit in the stadium. Actually he told me, that it burns every four years during the olympics. Amazing. 

Afterwards we went to Poutineville, which had a really nice poutine. There you can choose the ingredients yourself and make it super special. I even liked it better, than in La Banquise. The fries were even kind of cross. YumYum!