The Olympics have a long history, from their origins in ancient Greece to the modern-day games held in host cities throughout the world. Olympic village is a residential apartments for the players, coaches and their officials built for an olympic games. They are usually built in the host city of olympic games. Rooms are allotted to athletes and their officials only, no body other than officials can enter in the olympic village during games. Press and media have also no permission of entrance in the village.
It is a city in itself, with entertainment, food, medical facilities and other facilities. It looks like a house, where participants live as a family members. Family members of players are not allowed to room there. he dorm-style rooms that were on display to the press in the Olympic Village this week aren’t necessarily indicative of all the housing, some rooms are more luxurious than others, but with a smaller square footage. Two to six people can stay in these rooms. Olymic Village is a process that begins a year in advance. There’s a village staff whose job it is to allocate the different spaces in the village to the teams.
Preparations for the London 2012 Games are on track and construction on all the new main venues and infrastructure in the Olympic Park is well underway. Olympic Village of 2012 games will comprise the residential apartments for more than 17,000 athletes and their officials. It will also provide shops, restaurants, medical, media, transport,open space park, community and other facilities.
There will also a village plaza where athletes and officials can meet their family members and friends. During the Olympics and Paralympics, the stadium is serviced by five new bridges that will carry spectators as they flock to this cornerstone of the Olympic Park.
International broadcasting centre and media centre have the space for about 20,000 of world media. There is also a very high street that has everything from a post office to a hair saloon. A permanent, multipurpose, flexible venue will host a complex range of sports and entertainment, that has the capacity of about 7000 people.
4000 strong working force out of 10,000 is reserved for olympic village. London 2012 will depend on up to 70,000 volunteers to make sure the Olympic Games run smoothly and successfully by providing spectator services to language facility and medical services.
