{"id":26649,"date":"2011-11-28T08:57:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T16:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=26649"},"modified":"2011-11-28T09:24:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T17:24:49","slug":"montreal-moves-the-big-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=26649","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Moves The Big O"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BigO620.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BigO620.jpg','popup','width=450,height=254,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BigO620-tm.jpg\" height=\"242\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Bigo620\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those of us who live in a country that seems to go out its way on a regular basis to destroy skate spots it was nice to see that the Montreal Impact was able to move the entire structure to a new location, according to a post on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.impactmontreal.com\/en\/news\/2011\/11\/relocating-big-o-stade-saputo\" target=\"_blank\">Impact Montreal<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 175-ton concrete structure known as the Big-O is an historic monument that was built in 1976 for the Montreal Olympic Games. It became a symbol for the international skateboarding community. . . The structure was moved 25 meters and will keep the same incline at its new location. . . \u201cWe understood when we first build the stadium that the Big-O was a huge deal to the skateboarders,\u201d said Montreal Impact President Joey Saputo. \u201cWhen we decided to expand the stadium, we had no choice but to put a big column in its location. We needed to move it to save it. Everyone in the project was pretty confident it could be done.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amazing what can be done when people take skateboarding seriously.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.impactmontreal.com\/en\/news\/2011\/11\/relocating-big-o-stade-saputo\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Impact<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skatedaily.net\/2011\/11\/28\/montreals-big-o-is-relocated\/\" target=\"_blank\">SkateDaily.net<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of us who live in a country that seems to go out its way on a regular basis to destroy skate spots it was nice to see that the Montreal Impact was able to move the entire structure to a new location, according to a post on Impact Montreal. The 175-ton concrete structure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26658,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26649\/revisions\/26658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}