Nagoya – IOC President Kirsty Coventry called the shipping container-style huts for Asian Games athletes “beautiful” on Sunday — but conceded they were “a little tighter” than similar accommodation at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics earlier this year. Asia’s biggest sporting spectacle, which opened on Saturday in Nagoya, has split with past Games by having no traditional athletes’ village. To save costs, the more than 17,000 Asian Games participants will stay in temporary huts, hotels and a cruise ship.
Some countries have criticized the wooden cabins as too small, with beds that are too short. But after touring the lodgings, Coventry said she could not understand the negativity. So, you know, if you want something negative, it’s a little smaller.
I love the village.” About 2,000 participants are staying in the lodgings by the water in Nagoya. It’s better than some of the villages I’ve stayed in. And I was expecting something completely different to when I walked in.” Asked if she would happily see the temporary cabins and also a cruise ship serve as accommodation at the Olympics, she said she had not been to the vessel.
But she pointed to the accommodation at the Milano Cortina Games, and said those “very closely” resembled the ones in Nagoya.
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