“baguette de ache” fragrance stamp, laundry baggage with QR codes and tattoo parlor, come from the Olympic village – Libération

2024-07-02 16:34:35

Earlier than the arrival of sports activities representatives, on July 18, a tour by means of the streets and buildings of the Olympic village in Seine-Saint-Denis.

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It is going to undoubtedly be one. One thing that the organizers of the Paris Video games wouldn’t have considered of their planning of the Olympic village. However the defect shall be troublesome to seek out for the listing (not weak) of the searches introduced this Tuesday, July 2 through the journey (weak, it’s) within the base station Seine-Saint-Denis which getting ready to obtain greater than 14,000 residents. Whether or not “a small city the place all of the inhabitants determined to dwell on the identical day”, on July 18, smiles Augustin Tran Van Chau, deputy director of the Olympic village and information for the day, in a fluorescent vest between Rue Alice Man and the Ada Lovelace Mall.

Village folks

Unfold over three districts (Saint-Denis, Saint-Ouen and L’Ile-Saint-Denis), the village has 82 buildings, 3,000 flats, 7,200 rooms that may accommodate 14,250 folks through the Olympics (9,000 athletes and greater than 5,000) colleagues, trainers, docs or physiotherapists), divided into 206 nationwide representatives. There shall be a 3rd smaller inhabitants on the finish of August – 9,000 – through the Paralympics. In complete, 16,000 mattresses had been delivered by Japanese producer Airweave (together with 1,400 for the media village situated a bit additional in Seine-Saint-Denis).

Opposite to the preliminary guarantees, Paris 2024 ordered 2,500 air lamps to supply the rooms “on the request of nationwide representatives to reply to essentially the most pressing want for athletes who’re enjoying the sport or competitors of their lives [et dont] consolation and restoration necessities are increased than one summer time,” defends Augustin Van Tran Chau. The village is provided with a geothermal system permitting the cooling of the rooms, it must be at a temperature 6 ° C decrease than exterior.

Over the complete length of the JOP, Sodexo plans to serve 100,000 breakfasts on web site and 80,000 meals, whereas Accor has put in 12 laundries, every with twenty washing machines and twenty garments dryers. Additionally damaged directions seem within the paperwork handed from the Olympic Video games to the Olympic Video games between the host international locations. Whereas ready for the athletes and to keep away from making any errors (Teddy Riner has a lady’s measurement kimono, that will look dangerous), “We do experiments with our personal garments so in case you see folks with cut-off denims and light shirts, it is us,” smile obtain file. Tub towels shall be modified each two days, garments each 4.

Hotspots

A put up workplace and hospital are important in any self-respecting Olympic village. A tattoo residence is much less… “We had been informed that athletes wish to go together with Olympic rings or the date of their medal on their arm,” Skip to content material Organizer. Tattoo artists shall be put in within the part “village park” which as its title signifies shall be nice “sport area” with an open terrace (with out alcohol, Coca-Cola reigns right here and all over the place), seven giant screens to look at the occasions of colleagues and opponents, therapeutic massage chairs and arcade video games. The latter had been ordered after session with the Athletes Fee, historical past of chiller and let off steam earlier than or after the competitors. Surprisingly, we found an “ironing room” in one of many ten “Tremendous Residence Facilities”, that are, in accordance with Accor, locations “relaxation and life”. We relaxation as a lot as we will, we do not choose.

In a extra conventional manner, there shall be a magnificence salon (hairdresser, manicure, barber) with lengthy hours and a “nurse” to obtain the kids of the athletes through the day, who should not allowed within the Olympic village at evening. It is vitally harmful for the sleep of the candidates. Subsequent to the Carrefour grocery store, Fnac has created a “small” trend house which sells “Merchandise decided in session with the IOC”. Or many postcards, figures or Eiffel Tower notebooks. As for books, there are baggage in English, the most effective sellers of Virginie Grimaldi and the thrillers of Franck Thilliez in French.

A part of the installations are nested within the buildings of the facility station constructed within the Thirties to provide juice to the Paris metro. With white bricks coloured lime, the Maxwell corridor has a big 3,000 m² health heart, which nonetheless smells of plastic after the supply of 1,800 items of the most recent tools, together with 100 treadmills made in line. After the summer time, it can flip into places of work for the Ministry of the Inside.

Suggestions and methods

The laundry baggage (two per athlete) are outfitted with a QR code, to allow them to discover the route of the leotard earlier than the top of the rhythmic gymnastics and ship the laundry within the nationwide colours to the proper representatives. The health club is provided with many examples of “Biostrength”, a weight bench created by the Italian firm Technogym, the place a motor creates helpful resistance. No extra want for lead discs, synthetic intelligence relies on what the athlete desires to work on.

Even when the French basketball gamers (the farthest Blues) will dwell in Insep, within the Bois de Vincennes, the 2-meter beds made from weak cardboard (which we’ve got already mentioned within the Tokyo Olympics) can increase by 20 cm with out utilizing a Swiss military knife. The “Mattress Adjustment Middle” utility will can help you test your weight, peak and train with a view to “to convey again the nights and restoration”. Lastly, subsequent to the plate of Paris 2024 within the official colours (blue and child pink), the Put up Workplace issued in June a collection of “la baguette française” stamps wrapped in tricolor. To make the shot good, paper and glue are flavored with a “bread” scent. We examined it, it smells extra like caramel however we cannot cry.