IOC president impressed by ‘beautiful’ Asian Games shipping container-style huts
Kirsty Coventry admits the cabins are ‘a little tighter’ than similar accommodation at the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics earlier this year
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.
Asia’s biggest sporting spectacle, which opened on Saturday in the Japanese city of 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 criticised the wooden cabins as too small, with beds that are too short.
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