Just weeks before the launch of the European Championship football tournament, about 1,800 volunteers gathered at Vienna’s Ernst Happel Stadium on Sunday, May 11, to shed their clothing for American photographer Spencer Tunick.  SH doesn’t have Ernst Happel in its vast stadium database yet, so check it out on Wikipedia in the meantime.

The stadium will play host to seven European Championship games, including the final. The tournament kicks off on June 7 in Basel, Switzerland.  And on Sunday, Tunick also had an artistic tie in to the games: He had nude models posé with 1,000 soccer balls. Nice touch.

Considering each participant recieved free tickets to the tournament, I’m surprised there were only 1,800 shameless Viennese crazies.

Sources:

• http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=24213
• http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,552800,00.html

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Stadium Hunt’s first international stadiums: International Golf and International Soccer are the most recent additions to the SH database. These additions push our total amount of stadiums/golf courses/racetracks/venues to over 1200.

International Golf includes courses from Ireland, England Mexico, the United Arab Emirates, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and numerous other countries around the world. Notable courses include:

Royal County Down
Muirfield
Royal Birkdale
Loch Lamond
Catalunya

International Soccer includes fields primarily located in Europe. Soccer fields of note include:

White Hart Lane
City of Manchester Stadium
Amsterdam Arena
De Kuip

Some smaller database additions should be appearing in the near future so stay tuned.

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