"Olympic athletes are arriving in northern Italy and moving into Olympic villages spread among the four competition clusters around the region. Each vVillage has beds for athletes and support staff, gyms for working out, laundry facilities, medical help, and a cafeteria, where athletes have been passing on trays of steamed cauliflower and peas in favor of the pasta. Hockey players, speedskaters and figure skaters are based in a more urban setting, at the Olympic village in Milan."
""We arrived at the village at night and you could kind of see the mountains around you," she says. "But opening the door that first morning we are really in the middle of the mountains living. It's amazing," she says. Her mixed doubles curling partner Korey Dropkin, from Massachusetts, says the ski resort town Cortina, surrounded by dramatic mountain peaks, is stunning. "It's picturesque no matter where you are or where you go," he says."
Olympic athletes are arriving in northern Italy and moving into villages across four competition clusters. The villages provide beds, gyms, laundry, medical help, and cafeterias. Many athletes favor local pasta over steamed vegetables in the dining halls. Cortina's Fiames village places athletes amid dramatic mountain peaks, creating a strong sense of mountain living. Milan's village houses hockey players, speedskaters and figure skaters in a more urban environment with nature-themed lounges. Athletes note the communal atmosphere of seeing many team jackets and appreciate shared relaxation spaces, including greenhouse lounges with small plants to take to rooms.
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