Olympic Village

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Olympic Village in Montreal
The Olympic village from 1972, in the northern part of the Olympic Park in Munich

The collective accommodations of the participants in the Olympic Games are referred to as the Olympic Village . Often the buildings required for this are rebuilt and used as apartments or student dormitories after the respective Olympic Games . Existing student dormitories or barracks were also converted and used as accommodation for athletes . Sometimes the accommodations were partially dismantled again after the end of the Games, for example at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer .

history

At the (unofficial) Olympic Intermediate Games on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the 1st Modern Games in Athens, a tent city was built in 1906 for the participating athletes. Other sources report an accommodation in the Zappeion , a building of the national garden in the center of Athens.

For the first time at the official Olympic Games, an Olympic village was built for the 1932 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles . This was reserved for the male participants; the female athletes were accommodated in hotels. It consisted of 600 wooden prefabricated houses, was financed by private investors and completely dismantled after the games. The Berlin village from 1936 , on the other hand, was built on a massive scale for the first time, as it was to be used for military purposes after the games.

Ever since the attack on the Israeli Olympic team in Munich in 1972, the Olympic villages have been closely guarded. This also applied to the Olympic village in Beijing in 2008 , which was secured with a double fence with an accessible space in between, because there were alleged attacks by separatist underground groups.

List of Olympic Villages

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