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Kirsty Coventry Lauds Asian Games Lodging but Acknowledges Wooden Cabins a ‘Little Tight’ – WTOP News
Coventry said the cabins met minimum standards as organisers housed more than 17,000 athletes and officials in hotels, huts and a cruise ship.
- Indian shooters at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games face daily two-hour commutes from accommodation located 50km away, disrupting training schedules for athletes including double Olympic bronze medallist Manu Bhaker and multiple Asian Games medallist Esha Singh.
- To save costs, the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games Organising Committee scrapped plans for a dedicated athletes' village, housing 17,000 competitors across hotels, cruise ships, and shipping-container huts instead, creating widespread accommodation and transport chaos.
- Chef de Mission Sahdev Yadav confirmed that organizers removed 30 to 35 Indian athletes from the official accommodation list, forcing the Indian Olympic Association to book 18 additional hotel rooms and plan 10 more.
- India implemented a three-layer support system with airport staff and welcome centre assistance, while placing around 2,000 Indians living in Nagoya on standby to house competitors if official accommodation shortages continue.
- On Sunday, International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry toured the wooden cabins, calling them "beautiful" but conceding they were "a little tighter" than similar Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics accommodation amid ongoing athlete complaints.
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Organized in Nagoya, the Asian Games 2026 are criticized for the conditions for hosting athletes, housed in container-like cabins.
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Kirsty Coventry lauds Asian Games lodging but acknowledges wooden cabins a ‘little tight’ – WTOP News
NAGOYA, Japan (AP) — Kirsty Coventry, the president of the International Olympic Committee, on Sunday toured the wooden cabins lodging athletes at the Asian Gam
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