Friday, May 16, 2008

Baku Oil Field to be Turned into Sports Park

The Bibi Heybat oil field will be turned into a sports park. “The Bibi Heybat oil field will turn into a big sports park. This plan has already been implemented from the technical point of view. The turning of oil field into a sports park will bring a big success to Azerbaijan,” stated German experts in the event on occasion of Azerbaijan’s preparations for the 2016 Olympic Games.

The German expert on preparation to the Olympic Games Paul Bader said that huge funds are required to implement this project. According to Bader, some 1.5mln euros were spent for each hectare while laying this kind of park in the Western Europe.

The experts said that Baku does not make an impression of sports city as yet.

A total of 7 cities have stated their wish to hold 2016 Olympic Games. According to calculations, the Chicago has the best chances for holding the Games.

http://www.baku2016.org.az/

2 comments:

Jane said...

Hello Zip, welcome to the blog. I look forward to hearing about your country.

It is very encouraging that this land is being reclaimed. I hope they will be very careful with any left over chemicals.
Best wishes for the bid for the Olympic games.

Zip Mammadoff said...

hey Jane!

yep, hope they will :)