Stade Vélodrome

This guide to the Stade Velodrome in Marseille follows the four-year project, from 2010 to 2014, that gave the stadium its arching fabric roof while Olympique de Marseille kept playing every match without a single postponement. You'll hear how engineers at Egis phased construction around the fixture calendar, and how a steel skeleton weighing roughly six thousand tons was wrapped in Teflon-coated glass fiber and tested against the mistral in a wind tunnel. Listen for how four internal supports, wedged between the old stands, carry all that weight.