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As mentioned on the White City, London page the area was thus named because of the large number of whitewashed buildings at the Franco-British exhibition. The Olympic Stadium was given that name because it was already in common usage for that region of London, not vice-versa.

--Lost tourist 11:46, 10 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In YouTube web exists a video from 1980 where talks about the White City Stadium and how was looked before its demolition in 1985.--Nica2009 (talk) 04:24, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What was the stadium built for?[edit]

The opening line says it was built for the olympics, yet in the second paragraph of the history section it says it was built for the Franco-British Exhibition. BigTurnip (talk) 18:35, 3 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I've just addressed this anomaly. It was built on the site of the F-B expo and at the same time.Mikeo1938 (talk) 08:44, 7 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Coordinates precision[edit]

Coordinates North 51 degrees 30 minutes and 49.03 seconds is a little too precise. 1 Minute or nautical mile equals 1852 meters. One second equals 30.87 meters. A tenth of a second equals 3.08 meters and 1/100 of a second equals 0.31 meter or about a foot. And the longitude differences at latitude 51 are even smaller. But the stadium covered a far larger surface. From a mathematical point of view is it an error to give an answer with too high precsision. I suggest to skip the seconds decimals when large objects as this is given latitude and longitude coordinates. I know this is not the only article on Wikipedia that uses far too high precision concerning coordinates. But I have to start somewhere. 83.249.161.191 (talk) 23:36, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Greyhounds and World Cup 1966[edit]

The centence In 1966, Wembley's owner's refusal to cancel regular greyhound racing meant the match between Uruguay and France in the 1966 FIFA World Cup was played at White City.

Implies to me that grehound racing was involved combined with (some) of the 1966 World Cup matches. I fail to see any other explination to why the Uruguay vs France was played at White City (if text is correct). I think this needs some kind of clarification. 83.249.161.191 (talk) 23:45, 20 November 2012 (UTC) Or was greyhound racing preferred in front of World Cup football ? Wasn't the FA the owner of Wembley ? 83.249.161.191 (talk) 23:49, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I don't believe the FA owned Wembley at the time and yes, the stadium owner's priority was to place the regular greyhound meeting above the once in a blue moon World Cup game. Remember that statistically per number of meetings the old stadium was definitely a greyhound stadium first and anything else after that. Britmax (talk) 08:31, 21 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank You very much for this information. I do remember that Speedway World Championships was held at Wembley atleast once. Perhaps that was in 1975, otherwise a year prior or later. Back then the Speedway WC was decided during a single competition. (It may have been several occations) But Greyhound racing at Wembley was new knowlidge to me. Can such events, like a weekly Greyhound Racing, really gather crowds enough for such a huge arena (I've been at the old Wembley. A guided tour only though). 83.249.161.191 (talk) 21:48, 21 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Capacity 68,000 or 90,000 ?[edit]

Stadium capacity is unclear - 68,000 in the text, 90,000 in the summary box. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.29.200.32 (talk) 12:28, 6 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It would be good to improve the sourcing over the stadium capacity. A number of sources: e.g https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9Fu1AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT7&lpg=PT7&dq=white+city+stadium+150000&source=bl&ots=hMBqmOQYJz&sig=ACfU3U1srOdm1yvC8nv_YygljxaD8prMiQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjZmtny463nAhXwQhUIHTrkCfs4ChDoATAAegQICRAB#v=onepage&q=white%20city%20stadium%20150000&f=false suggest that the stadium had a 150,000 capacity but others say ~90,000 - But its not very clear where either estimate in sources comes from it would be good to find some better sources with an accurate figure. AlasdairEdits (talk) 11:59, 31 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]