Olympic baseball ground will relocate to Xiamen
China Daily | Updated: 2010-04-01 07:53
The baseball venue for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the Wukesong Baseball Field in Beijing, is to relocate to Xiamen in support of the State General Administration of Sport, it was confirmed by Lei Jun, chairman of the Chinese Baseball Association (CBA).
The Wukesong Baseball Field is currently the best of its kind in China. As an important part of Beijing's Olympic Games heritage, it is located next to the Wukesong Indoor Stadium at the Wukesong Culture and Sports Center in Beijing. It was one of the nine temporary venues at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
The baseball field has a total land surface of 12,000 square meters and a capacity of 15,000. It includes two competition fields and one training field.
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