Cutting Corners or Building Them?

 

What do you do when you are running out of time to complete running track for a Communist Party Inspection? Well, you cut corners of course. But in this case, they decided to build corners. In Tonghe County of the Heilongjiang Province of China, a 10,000 sf stadium was due for refurbishment as was it's running track. Unfortunately, building the track got behind schedule leaving managers to decide to built the track in a rectangular shape instead of the traditional oval. Building a rectangular shape is much easier to measure and lay out than that of an oval track. Now the track has four awkward 90 degree angles to maneuver. Who knows, maybe it will lead to a new sport?!