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Experts from Michigan State University’s turfgrass program are going to the Beijing Olympics. They’re not going as competitors but instead will help create a portable athletic field for the Olympic Stadium.
“In the Olympics, because of these elaborate opening ceremonies, if you buried the grass underneath all the paraphernalia, you would have no grass,” said crop and soil sciences professor Trey Rogers, a member of the team going to Beijing next year.
“So the idea is, ‘Do what ever you want at the opening ceremonies, because we can move a field in 48 hours.’”
The Beijing field will consist of thousands of four-foot by four-foot modules, each weighing about 1,100 pounds, that lock together like puzzle pieces.
“I think it reiterates the preeminence of our turfgrass program,” said Jeffrey Armstrong, dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at MSU. (He noted, too, that the work at the Olympics won’t be MSU’s only turfgrass-related collaboration with China; the university also has a joint education program on turfgrass management set up with four Chinese universities that brings students to Michigan to study the science of sod.)
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