The beds may bemade of cardboardbut they’re plenty sturdy — and the showers are plenty big, too — according to a tour of the athletes' rooms in theTokyo Olympic Villagethat diverTom Daleyshared on social media this week.
“As you can see, they’ve kitted it out to the max,” Daley, 27,told TikTok viewers in his videoas he showed off the flags and banners for Team Great Britain. (There’s a tradition of countries decorating their respective corners of the Village.)
And in the bathroom? A “big ol' shower,” Daley said.
“And yes, we’ve tried we can fit everyone in that shower at the same time,” he added.
Among other highlights in the village, he said, were self-driving buses, a post office and a massive dining hall where “they have pretty much every food you can imagine, ‘cause they have to cater to everyone’s dietary needs.”
Arecent media tourof the Tokyo Olympic Village offered a look at that cafeteria as well as the bedrooms (two beds each) and crisscrossing wood beam flourishes of the decor.
The complexreportedly includessome 3,600 rooms for 11,000 athletes, all of whom are subject to strictCOVID-19countermeasures — even as some of the biggest names on Team USA (likeSimone Biles) have opted to stay elsewhere, for fear of an infection that might bar them from competition.
Tom Daley.Karl Bridgeman/Getty Images for British Olympic Association
“It’s always funny because the village is such a mix of people,” track and field star Allyson Felix said in 2018.
“It’s like a giant college campus — except that everyone is getting ready for the biggest event of their life so they’re incredibly stressed,” swimmer Natalie Coughlin said at the time.
“You get to meet people from all over the world that typically you wouldn’t even come into contact with,” Felix said. “To me, that’s one of the coolest things … Being with people from other countries, all having to be together, is a really special experience.”
To learn more about Team USA, visitTeamUSA.org. Watch the Tokyo Olympics beginning July 23rd and the Tokyo Paralympics beginning August 24th on NBC.
source: people.com
