Tip 1: What is the Olympic Village
Tip 1: What is the Olympic Village
The Olympic Village is a complex of buildings,which have the participants in the games and the persons accompanying them. In addition, they also usually have a number of additional facilities, including dining rooms, shops, a cultural center, hairdressers, liaison offices and the like. In other words, it is a whole town or village, in which everyone who is involved in the Olympic Games in some way lives. Usually they have close to the Olympic stadiums in this or that city. The sports complex of the village should provide all conditions for training athletes and their comfortable living.
The history of this type of villages is quite interesting. At the first Olympics, each country's representatives independently decided on the location of their delegations during the competition. In 1924 during the Olympic Games in Paris, athletes had to live in wooden buildings, after which they received the well-known name "Olympic Village". At games in Los Angeles in 1932 near the stadium were specially constructed houses for participants. Then the tradition of creating the Olympic villages appeared. In accordance with the Olympic Charter, the construction of such villages and their maintenance falls on the shoulders of the city-organizer of games. Visiting Olympic villages can only their residents, and outsiders are allowed to go there only on a special pass. For the 1980 Olympics, the Olympic Village was also built in the USSR. Moscow, which hosted the competition, created a whole residential neighborhood in the process of preparing for the Olympics. However, this village, unlike the previous cities, was originally conceived as a residential micro-district, so apart from the houses themselves, schools, a hospital, cultural and entertainment facilities were built. The village was built in 1979, but even then the architects based on the construction of buildings in the image of houses of mass construction. Their goal was to create a village that would be radically different from all the previous ones. Now it is a Moscow residential area, consisting of 16-storey buildings of a standard series, which at one time were already very popular. The Olympic Village in Moscow is an exemplary example of complex development: there is also a sports center, a shopping center, and a polyclinic, as well as many cultural and household buildings.
Tip 2: What is the "Olympic Village"
The Olympic Village is a place speciallyAllocated for accommodation of participants of Olympic Games, that is sportsmen, trainers, the medical personnel, technical workers and other accompanying persons. In addition to the accommodations in the Olympic Village, there are food parlors, sports and training complexes, shops, cultural and entertainment centers, Internet cafes, liaison offices - in short, everything that is necessary for modern comfortable life.
Depending on the specific conditions of the placestay "Olympic villages" can be located either close to the main stadiums, where the game is passing, or at a sufficient distance. In any case, the host country is obligated to provide the inhabitants of the "village" with not only comfort, but also security. For example, for the duration of the games, only a person who has official accreditation can freely enter the "village" territory, and other persons can visit it only after receiving a special pass. The first games of our time, beginning with the Athens Games in 1896, did not know such a thing - the "Olympic Village". The sports delegation from each participating country independently solved the issue of accommodation, stopping, as a rule, in hotels or in rented apartments. But as the list of Olympic sports expanded and delegations became more and more numerous, it became obvious that they needed to be located on a certain territory. At the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1932, the contestants first lived in specially built houses. From that moment on, a tradition arose to build "Olympic villages". This tradition did not bypass Moscow either. Before the Olympics in 1980, a large residential neighborhood was built in the southwest of the capital of the USSR, which was called the "Olympic Village". However, since it was originally envisaged that Muscovites would live here after the departure of the participants of the competition, schools, polyclinics, cultural and welfare centers were also included in the infrastructure of the microdistrict. For that time, 16- and 18-storey apartment houses of improved planning, of which the Olympic Village was a part, were almost an elite version of a typical development. In any case, the participants of the Olympics in Moscow were quite satisfied with the conditions of accommodation and rest, no complaints were received from them.
Tip 3: Where the 1952 Summer Olympics were held
The capital of the XV Olympic Summer Games was the capitalFinland - Helsinki. Under the plan, Helsinki was supposed to host the Olympics in 1940. By this time, all major sports facilities and an Olympic village were built, but the Second World War, which began in 1939, made its own corrections. Only in 12 years the big sport returned to Helsinki.
The grand opening of the Olympics took place 19July. Thousands of people welcomed the great Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi, who was entrusted with the right to set the Olympic flame on the stadium. Representatives from 49 countries arrived for the first time. In total, 4,925 athletes participated in the competition. It was the first Olympic record of those games. For us, the fact that the Games in Helsinki was the first Olympiad to which the team of the Soviet Union was invited was of special significance. In addition to Soviet athletes, representatives of Ghana, South Vietnam, the Bahamas, Israel, the FRG, Thailand, Indonesia, Nigeria, Hong Kong, Guatemala and the Netherlands Antilles debuted at games in 1952. 149 sets of awards in 17 sports were played on the games. In the unofficial medal standings, Soviet athletes, debutants of the Olympics, shared first place with US athletes. The confrontation between the strongest teams of the United States and the Soviet Union exacerbated the sport struggle. Suffice it to say that during one day of the competition, the world record for long jump was updated 30 times. It was with these games that the confrontation in the sports arena of the two political systems began. Gradually, all the sports powers joined in this struggle. The athletes of the USSR were subjected to enormous pressure, taking into account the complex political situation of that time. For the loss in the 1/8 finals to the Yugoslav team, the USSR football team was severely punished, and the team of the CDSA, which formed the backbone of the USSR Olympic soccer team, was completely disbanded, and all players were forced to move to other clubs. Despite this pressure, Soviet athletes more than worthy. The real hero of the Olympics was the famous Soviet gymnast Viktor Chukarin. At the time of the competition he turned 31 years old, the war and fascist captivity were behind him, but this did not prevent him from becoming the first absolute Olympic champion in artistic gymnastics in the history of the USSR. But the first Olympic medal in the history of Soviet sport was awarded to the famous disk thrower Nina Romashkova (Ponomareva ). In all those games, Soviet athletes won 71 medals, including 22 medals of the highest dignity. The 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki are famous for one funny fact. They entered the history of the Olympic movement as games that were not closed. On August 3, at the closing ceremony of the games, IOC President Sigfrid Engstrem delivered a solemn speech, but forgot to utter the final phrase prescribed by the charter: "I declare the XV Olympic Games closed." The Olympics in Helsinki lasted two weeks, but it has not been completed so far.
