Olympic Village (Montreal)

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Olympic Village (2008)
The GDR athletes Waldemar Cierpinski , Hans-Georg Reimann and Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller (from left) in front of the Olympic Village (1976)

The Olympic Village ( French Village olympique , English Olympic Village ) is a housing estate in the Canadian city ​​of Montreal . It is located at the intersection of Rue Sherbrooke and Boulevard Viau in the Rosemont – La Petite-Patrie arrondissement , north of the Olympic Park and Parc Maisonneuve . During the 1976 Summer Olympics , around 9,000 athletes, supervisors and officials were housed here. The settlement consists of two pyramid-shaped blocks of houses, each with two towers with 23 floors. The two lined up, slightly angled blocks together are almost 600 meters long, while the towers reach a height of 70 meters. The architects in charge were Roger D'Astous and Luc Durand .

When Montreal won the bid for the Olympic Games in 1969, the city committed to building an Olympic Village . Later she applied to the IOC to allow the athletes to be accommodated at five different locations within a radius of several kilometers from the Olympic Park. However, the IOC insisted in June 1973 on a single facility in the vicinity of the sports facilities. Groupe Lépine was awarded the contract to build the Olympic Village. Construction began in November 1974 and was completed on June 23, 1976.

During the Olympic Games, most of the athletes and officials were housed in the facility, with one of the four towers being reserved for women in accordance with IOC specifications. Two smaller Olympic villages were available to sailors and equestrians in Kingston and Bromont . Following the games, the ZAROLEGA consortium led by Groupe Lépine converted the 980 apartments for permanent use and rented them out. In 1998 the system was sold to the Israeli El-Ad Group.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Le Village olympique, d'hier à aujourd'hui. City of Montreal, accessed August 29, 2017 (French).
  2. ↑ a b Official Report of the 1976 Summer Olympics, Volume 2. (PDF, 20.2 MB) LA84 Foundation, 1976, pp. 94-105 , accessed on November 29, 2011 (English).

Coordinates: 45 ° 34 ′ 6.6 ″  N , 73 ° 33 ′ 12.4 ″  W.