[NU Sports] OT: Chicago bid (fwd)

[Mike Nolan]

> I just took a look at the official Chicago Olympics website 
> (www.chicago2016.org) and saw that the proposed venues include 
> preliminary round soccer games at Ryan Field, but nothing else at NU.

Um, is Ryan Field big enough for an Olympic soccer pitch?

A football field is 120 yards long and 160 feet wide.

Most international soccer pitches are between 110 and 120 yards long,
so that's not a problem, but they are usually 70-80 yards wide, so they
need an additional 50-80 feet of width.

How wide are the team areas on the sidelines and how much of that is grass?  
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Mike Nolan