Beijing Olympic Basketball Gymnasium: first impressions

The newly built Basketball Gymnasium is beautiful from the outside although probably less eye-catching that its brothers the National Stadium ("Birds nest") and National Aquatics Center ("Water cube").

Inside there is a functional Basketball gym with displays at both ends - the classical ones with names of players, fouls, points, etc - and large screens in the middle of the Gym.

The court looks a bit worn out for the competition that is just beginning, but overall seems to be fine with the players.

Nice basketball gym. Look forward to be further down in category A tickets though.