The delegations of the Olympic Games. from Paris They have ordered 2,500 mobile air conditioning units to cool 7,000 rooms in the Olympic Village, They consider that the cooling system of the residences -without air conditioning- may be insufficient due to the high summer temperatures.
The figure was advanced by the Olympic village this Tuesday, when a press visit before the delegations occupy, starting July 18 -eight days before the opening of the Olympic Games-, the 14,200 beds distributed in 96 buildings built for the event.
To avoid the environmental impact of ordinary air conditioning, the firm Solideo, in charge of building the Olympic Village and chaired by the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, had chosen to launch a radiant floor cooling system powered by a small geothermal power plant.
Laurent Michaud, director of the Olympic and Paralympic Village, stated today in a press visit that this system is efficient, since it serves to reduce the temperature of the apartments (the goal is that it does not exceed 26 degrees Celsius). In addition, there will be ordinary fans that will further help cool the environment.. For Michaud, it is up to each delegation to decide if “reinforcement” is necessary to cool the rooms.
The hoax of anti-sex beds
The Olympic Village, which extends across the towns of Saint-Ouen, Saint-Denis and Ile-Saint-Denis (in the north of Paris), occupies some 52 hectares adjacent to the Seine River, in a depressed area of the capital’s suburbs .
In what is considered ‘the largest hotel in the world’, athletes will find numerous services, such as a gym with the capacity to accommodate up to 400 users simultaneouslya cafeteria to meet family and journalists and even a post office.
The rooms have beds 90 centimeters wide and two meters longalthough they will adapt to the needs of certain larger athletes (judokas or basketball or handball players).
A giant ship converted into a training court to train in the town.
The organizers denied that these beds are a deterrent to having sex due to their supposed fragility., a rumor that also spread in the last Tokyo Games. As in those Games, in those in Paris the beds They have a bed base that uses pieces of cardboard, as well as a mattress divided into three blocks of different levels of firmness. (to be chosen by each user) and made from resin fibers used in some fishing nets.
To check the solidity of the bed, a representative of the company that designed these beds, the Japanese company Airweave, jumped on the mattress: “Look at the boats I give and I weigh 80 kilos.”
Facilities converted into the town’s training center.
In addition, many of the athletes will not need to leave the Olympic Village to train, since They will use the current film studios of series such as ‘Emily in Paris’ and ‘The Walking Dead’ previously installed in the premises. These enormous hangars are thus converted, for a few weeks, into a giant weightlifting room or a basketball court.
The villa will have small electric motorized vehicles of the Toyota brand and there will be panels with sound information for the Paralympic athletes, who will also be housed in the same venue.
