{"id":408960,"date":"2024-07-03T08:54:19","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T08:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=408960"},"modified":"2024-07-03T10:04:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T10:04:53","slug":"first-look-at-unique-athletes-village-for-paris-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=408960","title":{"rendered":"First look at 'unique' athletes village for Paris Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

The world has been given a sneak peek of the athletes' village for Paris 2024<\/a> and there's plenty of exciting and "unique" things on offer.<\/p>\n

9News Sydney was given an inside look at the facilities in France, which will host thousands of competitors from all over the world later this month. \ufeff<\/p>\n

Paris Games president and Olympic gold medallist Tony Estanguet believes the athletes will be treated to only the best before, during and after their events.<\/p>\n

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"When you live in this village, you feel you are part of something unique," he said.<\/p>\n

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"Whatever your sport, whatever your country … you are on the same level, you benefit from the same service."<\/p>\n

Some of the training facilities for athletes will be held in repurposed film studios that have hosted shows such as The Walking Dead and Emily In Paris.<\/p>\n

Competitors will also be able to choose their own type of mattresses.<\/p>\n

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The only hiccup could come with the weather, as temperatures begin to rise in Paris\ufeff, leading to teams such as Australia bringing their own portable air-con units.<\/p>\n

In a first in Paris for Paralympic athletes, bike share-style access to E-scooters and wheelchairs will be on offer to get around the village.\ufeff<\/p>\n

The village will go into lockdown on Thursday (AEST), before a security sweep in preparation for \ufeffthe Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The world has been given a sneak peek of the athletes' village for Paris 2024 and there's plenty of exciting and "unique" things on offer. […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":408962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=408960"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408965,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408960\/revisions\/408965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/408962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=408960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=408960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=408960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}