Bedrooms in Olympic Village (cozy) (Read Mod Post #466)

[carolinacanuck]

http://deadspin.com/the-olympic-hockey-teams-bedrooms-are-very-um-cozy-1515665541

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[PensBandwagonerNo272*]

"Those tigers might be cute now, hockey players, but after a few days of laying in a tiny bed with nothing else but white walls to look at, you're going to start hearing them whisper things at you."

 

[Beerfish]

The eyes are obviously cameras and the noses microphones.

 

[clydesdale line]

Nice drinking water.

 

[Frank the Tank]

I remember Morozov complaining about the Olympic Village in 2010 (e.g., TVs on the floor and having to eat at McDonalds). You knew that the Russians would strike back when they hosted this year, and I imagine Team Canada's (and other hockey federations') staff was prepared for such accommodations.

 

[ViD]

Did Vancouver Olympics feature a king size bed for each athlete?

 

[WeberStreit]

Lol, they didn't spend those 50 billions into the appartements, that's for sure.

 

[Gigantor The Goalie]

Didn't Vancouver feature Spartan like quarters for every team as well? I remember that the mens team originally stayed in hotels before moving into the Olympic village after losing to the USA.

 

[damicius]

Did Vancouver Olympics feature a king size bed for each athlete?

same size probably, just higher and with nicer bedspread

 

[damicius]

Nice drinking water.

gatorade directly from the tap, cool

 

[Frank the Tank]

Did Vancouver Olympics feature a king size bed for each athlete?

Who cares? All that mattered were that the TVs were on the floor. I do not know how Morozov survived this hardship.

 

[BluPuk*]

I like the idea of 'spartan' accomodations for all athletes. Might light a fire under some of our more "coddled" hockey players. That might work in our favour.

 

[carolinacanuck]

i dunno about the vancouver olympic village but my sister now owns a townhouse/condo that was used for athletes in whistler.

the condo is nice and has separate bedrooms but the decorations back then were sparse, too.

and she doesn't know which athlete/athletes stayed in her place.

pretty cool tho.

 

[Pominville Knows]

I'm still half expecting visting hockey countries rooms being equipped with clonking radiator pipes, hot water in showers lasting only a minute, unfinished parts of the village being worked on at night outside the windows, adult tapes obviously playing on the other side of insuffissiently padded walls, and of course room-service knocking at least once a night on doors of people that has'nt ordered anything.

 

[Stjonnypopo]

i dunno about the vancouver olympic village but my sister now owns a townhouse/condo that was used for athletes in whistler.

the condo is nice and has separate bedrooms but the decorations back then were sparse, too.

and she doesn't know which athlete/athletes stayed in her place.

pretty cool tho.

Someone missed out on a marketing idea there...

Regarding the pictures though, I find it funny just thinking about the fact that there are going to be a bunch of NHL players making upwards up 5M per year bunking together in these little rooms with little single beds.

And another funny image is Chara sleeping on one of those beds. I'm 6'4" and I definietly could not fit, so imagine someone who's 6'9"!

 

[carolinacanuck]

Someone missed out on a marketing idea there...

Regarding the pictures though, I find it funny just thinking about the fact that there are going to be a bunch of NHL players making upwards up 5M per year bunking together in these little rooms with little single beds.

And another funny image is Chara sleeping on one of those beds. I'm 6'4" and I definietly could not fit, so imagine someone who's 6'9"!

i agree..but with the limited housing available in whistler they had no trouble selling the units.

i always hoped the athlete would have signed the wall or left some kind of momento for the new tenant, but nope. nothing.

 

[Macman]

Nice drinking water.

Naw, just stockpiling clean urine for doping controls.

 

[SimplySensational]

Nice drinking water.

Its too bad technology isn't quite there so this reporter could handily show a video of this happening.

 

[BobDobolina]

The amount of whining coming from journos is already hilarious. My favs are the pieces where these sports reporters get to play real journalists for a day and make bleeding heart stories about local poverty or something.

 

[Siamese Dream]

Oh god this takes me back to last summer

"It's going to be like being in summer camp"

They have no idea do they I've got some real estate to sell them. They had better hope it's more like North American summer camp, not Russian

 

[SimplySensational]

The amount of whining coming from journos is already hilarious. My favs are the pieces where these sports reporters get to play real journalists for a day and make bleeding heart stories about local poverty or something.

That's better than whining about rooms that millionaire hockey players won't even stay in.

 

[zorz]

"Those tigers might be cute now, hockey players, but after a few days of laying in a tiny bed with nothing else but white walls to look at, you're going to start hearing them whisper things at you."

gold

 

[EmeticDonut]

Looks like pretty standard accommodations for the Olympics.
What's the point here?

Look at how weird those crazy Russians are?

I don't see what the big deal is. These millionaires live a coddled lifestyle anyways, so something simpler for two weeks won't kill them.

 

[tacogeoff]

Look at how weird those crazy Russians are?

I don't see what the big deal is. These millionaires live a coddled lifestyle anyways, so something simpler for two weeks won't kill them.

agreed. every athlete should have the same accommodations regardless of how wealthy they are.

That being said there probably is available or should be available different sized beds for mammoth athletes such as Chara

 

[kudymen]

Are there 23 toilets in one room to empower the team spirit?