Paris 2024 unveils finished Olympic village

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Paris 2024 unveils finished Olympic village   Paris 2024 is putting the finishing touches to the Olympic Village for the upcoming Paris Games, as it is about to open its doors for the arrival of participating athletes.   The site will welcome more than 20,000 athletes throughout the Olympics and Paralympics, and has been designed to use existing structures as much as possible, organizers say. Athletes are set to arrive from Thursday, July 18.   REUTERS VIDEO   Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe    Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net    Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion    Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital    Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein    #TheManilaTimes  #tmtnews  #paris2024  #ParisOlympicGames

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00:00I think we have to change the route because they are making stop here so we can't access the airport.

00:30So during the olympic games we're gonna have 14 250 residents so it's more than

00:599 000 athletes that are staying in a village and around 6 000 officials that are coming with them

01:05during the olympics. So here they will also use as maximum of already existing infrastructure.

01:16For example the main dining hall is in a former electric factory. We will put 3 200

01:23seating in there and serve 40 000 meal and this place is magnificent and we're pretty sure that

01:30it's going to be a one of the iconic place in the village. We have also next to the Cité du

01:35Cinéma some movie makers studio. Nine boxes empty that we're going to use as a training site.

01:44They have all the facilities so we can actually put in there basketball, the fencing, the wrestling

01:51or the weight lifting inside the studios. So for these athletes they will just have a

01:57few hundred meters to do to go directly to their training site. We're very proud about the village.

02:06All apartments have an underfloor cooling system that can reduce the temperature of an external

02:12temperature from 6 to 10 degrees and all depending also where your apartment is situated in the

02:18building of course. But we know that there are some athletes that need less than this and we also

02:24know that during the Paralympics we have some athletes that have some thermal regulation

02:29problems that really need some very cool temperature inside. So some delegations have requested

02:37to have some air conditioning. It was in our catalog and we actually have proposed some

02:43systems that are the most sustainable ones that are on the market.

03:44With the actual mattress. So the cover itself is easily removed like this and then our mattress is

03:57composed of three blocks and each blocks has different firmness on each side like you can see

04:06this is soft, moderate, firm and extra firm. So we have four different firmness.

04:21So this material itself is washable so you can take a shower to keep it clean.

04:36That's good.

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