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	Olympic Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An Olympic Park is a venue or group of venues set up when a country hosts the Olympic Games.
		Sometimes, an Olympic Village is built within the Olympic Park or they could be built elsewhere in the city.
		Olympic Villages are built to house all participating athletes, as well as officials, trainers, etc. The first Olympic Village was built in Los Angeles for the 1932 Summer Olympics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Olympic_Village (195 words)

	Historic Evolution and Urban Planning Typology of Olympic Village (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Within Olympic urbanism in particular, the construction and subsequent re-use of the welcome and accommodation Villages are a specific case of urban transformation with two sides to it: the renovation of space already occupied and the creation of new urban territory.
		The Villages that we have termed "inaugural", the Los Angeles'32 one, "...a twenty-five minute drive from the heart of the city"(60)and the Berlin'36 one, 15km from the Reichssportfield, were characterised by a territorial separation, and the latter was even separated by its formal and conceptual opposition to the Olympic sports complex, as mentioned earlier.
		With regard to the Olympic Village, the main conclusion drawn from the various meetings held between 1965 and 1975 was the conviction, on the one hand manifested by the post-Olympic under-use of Villages as in Tokyo's case, that the Village should fulfil a dual function.
	blues.uab.es /olympic.studies/viles/munoz.html (14193 words)

	BBC SPORT \| OLYMPICS2000 \| Olympic village welcomes athletes
		Sydney's Olympic village has officially opened and welcomed the first of more than 10,000 athletes due to live there during the Games.
		Olympic officials say it is the first time in the history of the Summer Games that one building has had the capacity to accommodate all competitors in the same location.
		Village mayor Graham Richardson said: "We've taken in 600 athletes this morning and by the end of the day we expect to have almost 3000 arrive.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/olympics2000/907097.stm (567 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - ATHENS 2004
		Discover all the Olympic sports and meet the athletes who have made their mark on the Games.
		The IOC was founded on 23 June 1894 by the French educationalist, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who had the idea of reviving the Olympic Games of Ancient Greece.
		The Olympic Movement and the IOC Medical Commission have been fighting against doping for more than 30 years.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/athens2004/index_uk.asp (264 words)

	BBC SPORT \| OLYMPICS2000 \| Olympic Village faces overcrowding
		Olympic athletes could be forced to sleep three to a room following an unexpected increase in the number of competitors arriving for the Games.
		Olympic Village organisers have said they estimated the village at Homebush would have to cope with an extra 500 people above the 15,000-plus planned for the Games.
		Village organisers told a meeting of team chiefs they would have to move extra beds into rooms to cope with the demand.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport/hi/english/olympics2000/newsid_910000/910650.stm (184 words)

	Olympic villages open in Turin - Boston.com
		A partial view of the Olympic village that was officially unveiled in Turin, Italy, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2006.The village includes some 52 thousand square meters of residences with 750 apartments and 40 thousand square meters dedicated to village services.
		IOC member Manuela Di Centa, a former Olympic cross-country skiing champion, cut the red ribbon for the main village at a ceremony in Turin.
		The Turin village appeared ready for its guests Tuesday, but just outside the gates workers were still drilling into the street -- a last-minute rush to finish many of the urban projects planned for the Olympics.
	www.boston.com /sports/other_sports/olympics/articles/2006/01/31/olympic_villages_open_in_turin (391 words)

	Our Green Olympic Games
		The Olympic Village is part of a 90 hectare purpose-built development called Newington near Homebush Bay.
		The interesting thing about the Olympic Village is not so much about how it was designed to meet the criteria of the "green" Olympic ideal, but about how a bunch of hard-nosed, bottom-line-orientated property developers found a way to be green and still make a buck.
		Because the Olympic village was a very large construction project the developers were able to employ very effective building-waste recycling systems.
	www.abc.net.au /science/slab/olympics/default.htm (1425 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Olympic Village
		The Olympic Village for the Nagano Games is located in Imani New Town, a residential area in the Imani area of Kawanakajima.
		The Olympic Village is a complex of 1,000 single and double apartments covering an area of 47 acres.
		Note: A satellite village for curling competition (not shown) is located at the Karuizawa Skate Center Hotel, Sengataki Karuizawa, 40 miles from the Olympic Village.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/nagano/articles/village.htm (65 words)

	ARCH'IT architetture / MORPHOSIS. NYC2012 Olympic Village
		The first phase of the NYC2012's Olympic Village Design Study was launched with the issuance of an RFQ (Request for Qualifications) with deadline in November 2003.
		During the Olympics, the more densely developed area of the Village will accommodate all International Zone functions and activities in a secure and contained environment that is visually and physically discrete from the primary residential zone and parklands.
		Our scheme for the NYC2012 Olympic Village responds to this challenge with a vision of a community that functions as a "living machine" by incorporating a range of low energy, high environmental quality planning and design initiatives and ecologically responsive landscapes that contribute to the conservation of the environment through the intelligent utilization of resources.
	architettura.supereva.com /architetture/20040827/index.htm (2626 words)

	Olympic Village: University of Utah News Release: January 24, 2001
		In addition to the new housing units, the 70-acre Olympic Village will offer its residents a full host of goods and services, including 24-hour dining, entertainment and recreation activities, world wide web center, packaging and mailing services, dry cleaning, a bank, post office, store and newsstand, salon, coffeehouse, photo shop and florist.
		The Olympic Village, with 21 new buildings (1 million square feet of new construction), will accommodate 3,500 athletes, coaches and officials in apartment and suite-style housing units.
		Olympic athletes and coaches are scheduled to start moving into the dormitories on January 29, 2002.
	www.utah.edu /unews/releases/releases/01/jan/olyvillage.html (521 words)

	All Set For Olympic Village
		From all indications, the construction of an Olympic Village in Liberia is set to begin.
		Browne declared that the requirement for benefiting from an Olympic Village is six acres of land but the LNOC boss said his group acquired ten acres.
		Browne noted that an Olympic size swimming pool would be the only thing not to be at the Olympic Village.
	www.liberiansoccer.com /All_Set_For_Olympic_Village20060420.htm (322 words)

	The Games - Sydney 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A Torch Relay brought the Olympic Flame from Olympia, Greece to Sydney in accordance with Rule 68 of the Olympic Charter.
		The Olympic Flame was lit in the stadium by Cathy Freeman.
		The mascots were Millie (for millennium), an echidna or spiny anteater, Olly (for Olympic), a kookaburra, a bird with a loud, human sounding laugh; and Syd (for Sydney), a duck-billed platypus.
	www.olympics.org.uk /thegames/past/sydney.asp (1009 words)

	Olympic Barcelona
		A tour of the Olympic Village enables us to discover this new neighbourhood of Barcelona, an extremely important part of the works of the Olympic programme.
		The general urbanisation project of the Olympic Ring is the work of the team formed by Federico Correa, Alfonso Milá, Carles Buixadé and Joan Margarit.
		Olympic Stadium of Montjuïc has a capacity for 55,000 spectators, which can be increased to 77,000 with the incorporation of temporary terracing.
	www.bcn.es /turisme/english/turisme/llocs/02.htm (1150 words)

	NYC 2012 Olympic Village :: arcspace.com
		The winning design, to be announced in May 2004, will be the basis of NYC2012's Olympic Village proposal in the Candidature File to be submitted to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on November 15, 2004.
		The proposed site of the Olympic Village is Queens West, directly across the East River from the United Nations.
		Financed and constructed by private developers selected by the Queens West Development Corporation, the Olympic Village would be built on the southern 17 acres of the 73-acre Queens West site, plus 17 adjacent acres.
	www.arcspace.com /news/NYC_2012_Olympic (301 words)

	Torino 2006 - From the Olympic Village
		The Olympic Village Newspaper is the magazine of Torino 2006 that tells anecdotes and curiosities of the life in the Olympic Village, seen from the athletes and from those working there.
		Published daily, the Olympic Village Newspaper represents a fresh and curious look into the functioning of the Olympic Winter Games from the inside, and it will definitely attract all those who are curious to know more closely every day life of the athletes.
		We have brought you the Olympic Venues, and drawn attention to all fifteen sporting specialities, we celebrated the momentous medal moments, and we have introduced you to the Volunteers and staff, the competing Countries, and to the famous and the less famous sports personalities.
	www.torino2006.org /ENG/OlympicGames/gare_e_programma/dal_villaggio_olimpico_1.html (284 words)

	USATODAY.com - Notes: Olympic Village opens doors to guests (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		International Olympic Committee member Manuela Di Centa, a former Olympic cross-country skiing champion, cut the red ribbon for the main village at a ceremony in Torino just hours before the arrival of Italian and Chinese athletes.
		The Torino village appeared ready for its guests Tuesday, but just outside the gates, workers were drilling into the street — a last-minute rush to finish many of the urban refurbishments planned for the Olympics.
		Kostelic, who won three golds and a silver in her second Olympics at Salt Lake City in 2002, is the only Croatian to have won a medal in the Winter Olympics.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/torino/2006-02-01-notes-olympic-village-opens_x.htm (576 words)

	CNNSI.com - 2002 Winter Olympics - Athletes begin arriving at Olympic Village - Wednesday January 30, 2002 10:52 AM
		The village will be occupied by 3,900 athletes, coaches and team officials, who will have a special guest: IOC president Jacques Rogge, who will skip the luxury of the IOC headquarters hotel for a dormitory bed.
		The Olympic Village at the University of Utah has a movie theater, post office, coffee shops, Internet cafes, a bank and a general store, even a beauty salon and massage salon.
		That wasn't the case Tuesday outside the Olympic media center, where reporters stood in slow lines to pass through a white tent sheltering metal detectors manned by Olympic volunteers and the National Guard.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /olympics/2002/news/2002/01/30/olympic_village_ap (488 words)

	The Games - Athens 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Situated 32km south of the Olympic Village, the Hellinikon Olympic Complex will be the venue for 5 of the 28 sports.
		Situated 24km south west of the Olympic Village on the coast, the Faliron Olympic Coastal Zone Complex will be the venue for 7 of the 28 sports.
		Situated 26km from the Olympic Village, the Nikea Indoor Hall is host to Weightlifting.
	www.olympics.org.uk /thegames/future/athens.asp (670 words)

	United States Olympic Committee - The take on Phelps in Olympic Village
		BY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, the athletes' village in the northern suburb of Lekanes was a kaleidoscope of Olympic humanity and national colors as the home for most of the 10,500 athletes began to fill up to capacity.
		Shortly after the U.S. women's basketball team checked into the village, for instance, first-time Olympian Swin Cash - who is trying to add an Olympic gold medal to her NCAA and WNBA championship hardware - found herself behaving like a giddy school girl.
		For every Michael Phelps who is supposed to win seven Olympic medals in the swimming competition (and who, quite frankly, knows he might be regarded as a "failure" if he wins only five golds), there are a thousand more faceless athletes who embody a certain fun-and-games aspect of Olympic competition.
	www.usolympicteam.com /132_23521.htm (995 words)

	NYC unveils finalists for 2012 Olympics village - Newsday.com
		If New York City wins the 2012 Olympics, one of five Olympic Village designs unveiled Wednesday would not only become the centerpiece of the games, but an economic boon that would transform the East River waterfront in western Queens.
		City Olympic planners envision a complex for 16,000 athletes that will then be converted into 4,400 units of housing for city residents and become an anchor in the redevelopment of a section of the city that state and city economic development officials have struggled to revitalize since the economy's downturn.
		The village, which would cost up to $1.5 billion and range anywhere from 35 to 43 acres, would lie just south of an area, where the Queens West Development Corporation, a susidiary of the Empire State Development Corporation, hopes to build some 6,400 residential units along with waterfront improvements.
	www.newsday.com /business/nyc-village0311,0,1449684.story?coll=ny-business-headlines (635 words)

	Our World Class Olympic Village? :: thetyee.ca
		But I agree that the Olympics in Vancouver/Whistler is a wasted opportunity, far better if it had been held in the Interior where there might have been a better payoff for the province as a whole.
		This Olympic development is based upon spending large amounts of money and can only be baled out after it is all over by attracting big buyers to buy the dwellings but it is an instant dream with a phony hope of adding to Vancouver culturally.
		The Olympic Village concept would have never have happened if it was not for the Olympics it is like someone is saying "Damn Vancouver looks like crap we better create something to wow people when they start looking at us in 2010".
	thetyee.ca /Views/2006/03/07/WorldClassVillage (4689 words)

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		The proposed site of the Olympic Village is Queens West, located across the East River from the United Nations.
		“This Olympic Village would be a spectacular ‘home away from home’ for the world’s greatest athletes, and be part of the unprecedented and enduring impact that the 2012 Games would have on our City.
		The Committee made recommendations for various aspects of the Village such as number and location of dining facilities, location of the International Zone, training facilities specifics, waterfront access, and proximity of National Olympic Committee (NOC) offices to the delegations, storage rooms, and common social spaces for athletes from different countries.
	www.nyc.gov /html/sports/html/olympic_village-pr.html (1167 words)

	Vancouver Blows Its Olympic Village Opportunity
		The Olympic Village area will most certainly be low-rise buildings and will be built first.
		Despite being aware of the costs of the Athlete's Village and the implications it would have on future development of the City owned SE False Creek Lands, Mayor Campbell, Councillors Green, Louie (not Louis), Stephenson and Cadman voted to Boost the Games.
		The real purpose of the 2010 Olympics bid is to seduce the provincial and federal governments and long suffering taxpayers into footing a billion dollar bill to pave the path for future real estate sales.
	thetyee.ca /Views/2004/03/15/Vancouver_Blows_Its_Olympic_Village_Opportunity (3213 words)

	Scotsman.com Living - Let the games begin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Part marketing blitz, part political stagecraft and part ritualised battle, the Olympics are also, at their core, a spectacular physical display: 10,000 examples of the perfect human form, in motion.
		The secret of the modern Olympics is that the athlete village, with its tightly packed collection of firm young bodies, 24-hour sports television and all-you-can eat international cuisine, has become the most exclusive VIP club in the world.
		In Sydney, three prostitutes were found in the Olympic village itself, the Miami Herald reported, after being signed in as guests by "an employee of a major American television network".
	living.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=814602004 (2467 words)

	City of Vancouver: Southeast False Creek and Olympic Village
		SEFC is bounded by Cambie Bridge on the west, Main Street on the east, and 2nd Avenue to the south.
		The City of Vancouver established the Southeast False Creek and Olympic Village Project Office to manage the development of the City Lands in Southeast False Creek.
		The Project Office is working closely with the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) to ensure that the new community meets the design and operational needs of the Olympic Village with little or no temporary modifications.
	www.city.vancouver.bc.ca /olympicvillage (577 words)

	Students devise Olympic village concepts
		Their designs need to include support facilities for the games and must be flexible enough to convert easily into permanent living and working spaces once the Olympics is over.
		"The site for Olympic village presents a unique opportunity to design and build, from scratch, an innovative new neighborhood of the 21st century," said Trancik, a professor of city and regional planning and landscape architecture.
		While Trancik's Olympic village studio helped the students test out some original planning and design ideas shared with the site's planners, the actual project's ultimate designers are professionals who will be selected by the New York City Olympic committee through an international competition.
	www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/03/12.11.03/Olympic_concepts.html (893 words)

	A day or two peeping into the Olympic Village Photo Gallery by Sotiris Blatsis at pbase.com
		The Olympic Village, a complex of three-storey houses, is built in the northwestern outskirts of Athens, right next to a forest, yet still quite treeless itself.
		During the Olympic Games, it is lodging about sixteen thousand members of the Olympic delegations of 202 countries and will be used to house working class families, as well as the Ministry of Employment afterwards.
		The infrastructure and facilities are nicely set up, but the annoying presence of the so-called "Olympic sponsors" trademarks can be seen virtually everywhere - not to mention that thirteen workers have been killed during the construction of this venue alone...
	www.pbase.com /dead_poet/olympic_village (318 words)

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