Unique Sports Events / Venues - Page 6

Commandant · January 17th, 2011, 11:26 PM

Marathon des Sables, Morocco

Mille Miglia, Italy

Commandant · January 17th, 2011, 11:51 PM

Volvo Ocean Race, Alicante, Spain to St. Petersberg, Russia

Targa Florio, Italy

Carrera Panamericana, Mexico

Commandant · January 18th, 2011, 12:26 AM

Mint 400, Las Vegas, Nevada

Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, New York City, NY, to Redondo Beach, CA

Gran Premio Internacional del Norte (1940), Buenos Aires, Argentina, to La Paz, Bolivia, over the Andes to Lima, Peru, and back down to Buenos Aires

Commandant · January 18th, 2011, 10:17 AM

National Tennis Month, John McEnroe vs. Billie Jean King, tennis court on a barge docked at Chelsea Piers, New York City, New York

Tennis on the Thames, John McEnroe vs. Monica Seles, Thames River, London, England

Nike Tennis – Primetime Knockout Exhibition Game, Pier 54, New York City, New York

Commandant · January 21st, 2011, 12:36 PM

Noah 25th Anniversary Rematch on the Seine River, Paris, France

Goran Ivanisevic playing tennis by the Eiffel Tower, Paris, France
image hosted on flickr

Commandant · January 21st, 2011, 01:24 PM

The World's Biggest Basketball Practice, Memorial Stadium, Champaign, Illinois

Bandy: Dynamo Moscow vs. The World, Red Square, Moscow, Russia

UEFA Champions Soccer, Red Square, Moscow, Russia

Commandant · January 21st, 2011, 01:52 PM

From nytimes.com:

Harlem Globetrotters on Ice, Lasker Rink, Central Park, New York City, New York

Harlem Globetrotters playing on the roof of the Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Globetrotters preparing for a game in a bullring in Pamplona, Spain in 1962, left, and Marques Haynes using an umbrella on an outdoor court in Nancy, France in 1950.

From www.harlemglobetrotters.com:

1951
The Harlem Globetrotters 25th anniversary tour begins and is highlighted by the team's 4,000th career game. On April 9, a world record crowd of 31,684 fans watched the Globetrotters defeat the College All-Stars, 55-34 at the Rose Bowl. On April 25, Globetrotters embark on their first South America tour. The tour highlight is when the team played before another world record crowd, this time, 50,041 fans at Rio de Janeiro's Estadio Municipal. To help counteract the impact of a giant communist youth rally in what was then East Germany, the United States' State Department contacts Abe Saperstein and asks the Globetrotters to play a game in the Allied section of Berlin. On August 21, the Globetrotters play before 75,000 fans packed into Berlin's Olympic Stadium. The world record attendance mark would last until 2004. Just prior to the game, a helicopter lands on the field and emerging from the helicopter was the Globetrotters' special guest, 1948 U.S. Olympian Jesse Owens. The Berlin crowd cheered Owens for a solid 15 minutes before the start of the game.

Wey · January 24th, 2011, 12:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Commandant

National Tennis Month, John McEnroe vs. Billie Jean King, tennis court on a barge docked at Chelsea Piers, New York City, New York

Tennis on the Thames, John McEnroe vs. Monica Seles, Thames River, London, England

Nike Tennis – Primetime Knockout Exhibition Game, Pier 54, New York City, New York

Poor poor ball boys...

Greece · January 25th, 2011, 12:29 AM

Caroline Wozniacki vs. Flavia Pennetta @ Yale Bowl:

Commandant · January 28th, 2011, 10:35 AM

Sparks Sunset Showdown, Los Angeles Sparks vs. Seattle Storm, Home Depot Center Tennis Stadium, Carson, California

LEGEND Ultimate Basketball Championship (3on3), Landmark Plaza, Yokohama, Japan

Venice Beach Basketball Courts, Venice, Los Angeles, California

Gondolier · January 31st, 2011, 02:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Commandant

Marathon des Sables, Morocco
Mille Miglia, Italy

What's so unique about that? I mean some ground has to be covered for a thousand-km race, jeez.

Commandant · January 31st, 2011, 03:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gondolier

What's so unique about that? I mean some ground has to be covered for a thousand-km race, jeez.

Here is some info about the Mille Miglia (considered one of the world's most dangerous auto races):

From http://www.toptenz.net/top-ten-most-...auto-races.php

Quote:

The race featured high-powered touring cars—among them some of the first racing vehicles designed by Porsche, Alpha Romeo, and Ferrari—tearing along public roads from the city of Brescia to Rome. In addition to becoming known for featuring some of the world’s fastest cars and top drivers, the Mille Miglia was also notorious for terrifying crashes. Benito Mussolini briefly banned the race in 1938 after a tragic accident took the lives of several spectators, but it was restarted in a different format in the years following WWII, where it continued to be famous for the all-around reckless behavior of its competitors. In one famous example, German driver Hans Herrmann and his navigator were approaching train tracks with the barrier gate lowered. To the astonishment of spectators, Herrmann floored it and the duo ducked their heads under the gate and crossed the track just as a high-speed train came flying by. The Mille Miglia Came to a tragic end in 1957, when it was banned after a horrific crash took the lives of 12 people. Ferrari driver Alfonso de Portago was running in third place when his car blew a tire around a high speed corner, sending it flying into a crowd of spectators standing nearby. The race disappeared for nearly 25 years, before it was revived in 1982 as a safer event devoted to racing vintage cars made between 1927 and 1957—the span of years in which the original race was held.

From wikipedia

Quote:

The Mille Miglia took place in Italy twenty-four times from 1927 to 1957 (thirteen races before WWII, eleven races from 1946 to 1957). The original race, from Brescia to Rome and back, had a figure-eight shaped course of roughly 1500 km - or a thousand Roman miles. Later races followed twelve other routes with varying total lengths.

The first pic I posted is the route that was used for the eleven races held after WWII.

T74 · January 31st, 2011, 09:33 AM

Todd River Regatta in Australia. Only regatta in the world to be held on a dry river bed, and only regatta in the world to be cancelled due to the river actually flowing with water

Commandant · January 31st, 2011, 02:07 PM

Just Plain Awesome!

Gondolier · January 31st, 2011, 02:35 PM

Back to the Mille Miglia race, I mean the Tour de France (and other races, including among them the new Tour de California (which happens in either Feb-March-or April) changes routes EVERY year, and that is not an unusual occurrence; it is the norm. So why should this race be any different?

Commandant · January 31st, 2011, 02:40 PM

Why don't you post pics of the America's Cup? Or the Tour de France?

Gondolier · January 31st, 2011, 02:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Commandant

Why don't you post pics of the America's Cup? Or the Tour de France?

I don't think they're really that unusual. I mean they are recurring events and it is just their nature to be carried out on different terrains or ever-changing surfaces. It is just their nature.

Commandant · January 31st, 2011, 03:19 PM

2008 Homeless World Cup, Melbourne, Australia

2009 Homeless World Cup, Milan, Italy

2009 Street Soccer USA Cup, Washington DC

Commandant · January 31st, 2011, 08:33 PM

More Harlem Globetrotter pics:

On Ice, Central Park, New York City, New York

On the roof of the Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

In a bullring in Pamplona, Spain 1962

Gondolier · January 31st, 2011, 09:09 PM

If there are so many 'aberrations,' then they're not ALL that unique anymore, are they? I mean it looks like adaptations are made to every setting...so why would that be unique??

January 21st, 2011, 01:24 PM	#106
Commandant Registered User Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 1,010 Likes (Received): 4	The World's Biggest Basketball Practice, Memorial Stadium, Champaign, Illinois Bandy: Dynamo Moscow vs. The World, Red Square, Moscow, Russia UEFA Champions Soccer, Red Square, Moscow, Russia Last edited by Commandant; February 9th, 2011 at 02:09 PM.

January 28th, 2011, 10:35 AM	#110
Commandant Registered User Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 1,010 Likes (Received): 4	Sparks Sunset Showdown, Los Angeles Sparks vs. Seattle Storm, Home Depot Center Tennis Stadium, Carson, California LEGEND Ultimate Basketball Championship (3on3), Landmark Plaza, Yokohama, Japan Venice Beach Basketball Courts, Venice, Los Angeles, California Last edited by Commandant; April 5th, 2011 at 02:27 AM.

January 31st, 2011, 02:35 PM	#115
Gondolier Registered User Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 304 Likes (Received): 0	Back to the Mille Miglia race, I mean the Tour de France (and other races, including among them the new Tour de California (which happens in either Feb-March-or April) changes routes EVERY year, and that is not an unusual occurrence; it is the norm. So why should this race be any different? Last edited by Gondolier; January 31st, 2011 at 02:41 PM.

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January 17th, 2011, 11:26 PM	#101
Commandant Registered User Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 1,010 Likes (Received): 4	Marathon des Sables, Morocco Mille Miglia, Italy

January 17th, 2011, 11:51 PM	#102
Commandant Registered User Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 1,010 Likes (Received): 4	Volvo Ocean Race, Alicante, Spain to St. Petersberg, Russia Targa Florio, Italy Carrera Panamericana, Mexico

January 18th, 2011, 12:26 AM	#103
Commandant Registered User Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 1,010 Likes (Received): 4	Mint 400, Las Vegas, Nevada Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, New York City, NY, to Redondo Beach, CA Gran Premio Internacional del Norte (1940), Buenos Aires, Argentina, to La Paz, Bolivia, over the Andes to Lima, Peru, and back down to Buenos Aires

January 18th, 2011, 10:17 AM	#104
Commandant Registered User Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 1,010 Likes (Received): 4	National Tennis Month, John McEnroe vs. Billie Jean King, tennis court on a barge docked at Chelsea Piers, New York City, New York Tennis on the Thames, John McEnroe vs. Monica Seles, Thames River, London, England Nike Tennis – Primetime Knockout Exhibition Game, Pier 54, New York City, New York

January 21st, 2011, 12:36 PM	#105
Commandant Registered User Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 1,010 Likes (Received): 4	Noah 25th Anniversary Rematch on the Seine River, Paris, France Goran Ivanisevic playing tennis by the Eiffel Tower, Paris, France image hosted on flickr

January 21st, 2011, 01:52 PM	#107
Commandant Registered User Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 1,010 Likes (Received): 4	From nytimes.com: Harlem Globetrotters on Ice, Lasker Rink, Central Park, New York City, New York Harlem Globetrotters playing on the roof of the Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The Globetrotters preparing for a game in a bullring in Pamplona, Spain in 1962, left, and Marques Haynes using an umbrella on an outdoor court in Nancy, France in 1950. From www.harlemglobetrotters.com: 1951 The Harlem Globetrotters 25th anniversary tour begins and is highlighted by the team's 4,000th career game. On April 9, a world record crowd of 31,684 fans watched the Globetrotters defeat the College All-Stars, 55-34 at the Rose Bowl. On April 25, Globetrotters embark on their first South America tour. The tour highlight is when the team played before another world record crowd, this time, 50,041 fans at Rio de Janeiro's Estadio Municipal. To help counteract the impact of a giant communist youth rally in what was then East Germany, the United States' State Department contacts Abe Saperstein and asks the Globetrotters to play a game in the Allied section of Berlin. On August 21, the Globetrotters play before 75,000 fans packed into Berlin's Olympic Stadium. The world record attendance mark would last until 2004. Just prior to the game, a helicopter lands on the field and emerging from the helicopter was the Globetrotters' special guest, 1948 U.S. Olympian Jesse Owens. The Berlin crowd cheered Owens for a solid 15 minutes before the start of the game.

January 25th, 2011, 12:29 AM	#109
Greece Registered User Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 48 Likes (Received): 0	Caroline Wozniacki vs. Flavia Pennetta @ Yale Bowl:

January 31st, 2011, 09:33 AM	#113
T74 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Melbourne Posts: 629 Likes (Received): 0	Todd River Regatta in Australia. Only regatta in the world to be held on a dry river bed, and only regatta in the world to be cancelled due to the river actually flowing with water

January 31st, 2011, 02:07 PM	#114
Commandant Registered User Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 1,010 Likes (Received): 4	Just Plain Awesome!

January 31st, 2011, 02:40 PM	#116
Commandant Registered User Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 1,010 Likes (Received): 4	Why don't you post pics of the America's Cup? Or the Tour de France?

January 31st, 2011, 08:33 PM	#119
Commandant Registered User Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 1,010 Likes (Received): 4	More Harlem Globetrotter pics: On Ice, Central Park, New York City, New York On the roof of the Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania In a bullring in Pamplona, Spain 1962

January 31st, 2011, 09:09 PM	#120
Gondolier Registered User Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 304 Likes (Received): 0	If there are so many 'aberrations,' then they're not ALL that unique anymore, are they? I mean it looks like adaptations are made to every setting...so why would that be unique??