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unusual facts about Olympic Village


Marshalls plc

As well as supplying the domestic market through merchants, Marshalls has worked on a large number of high profile commercial projects including; London’s Exhibition Road, Trafalgar Square and the 2012 Olympic Village.


Dave Tyler

He was part of the 1980 Olympic delegation at Lake Placid, and escorted the Japanese team into the Olympic Village.

Division of Jagajaga

The Olympic Village in Heidelberg West housed the thousands of athletes who participated in the 1956 Olympic Games.

Sandy Neilson

In a twist of fate, during the Munich massacre which took place after the day after the swimming events were completed, both Gould and Babashoff were huddled with Neilson in her Olympic Village while the massacre was taking place.


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1940 Summer Olympics

The Olympic Village was to be built on the present sites of Kinuta Park or Todoroki Gorge.

Amin al-Hindi

In its obituary, The New York Times described Hindi as being "widely suspected of having played an organizing role" in the Black September attack in Munich that led to the deaths of 11 athletes and coaches representing the Israeli Olympic team at the 1972 Summer Games who had been taken as hostages at the Olympic village on the morning of September 5, 1972.

Elista

To the east of the town lies the Olympic village of the 1998 XXXIII Chess Olympiad, known locally as "City-Chess".

Estosadok

The railway station of Krasnaya Polyana connects this area with Adler railway station, with further connections to Sochi International Airport, Sochi Olympic Village and the downtown of Sochi.

Joscelin Yeo

On 7 June 2009, Yeo with Canagasabai Kunalan were unveiled as the two deputy mayors of the Youth Olympic Village for the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics held in Singapore.

Luttif Afif

Luttif Afif (1937? or 1945? – 6 September 1972), alias Issa (Jesus in Arabic), was the commander of the group of Palestinian fedayeen who invaded the Munich Olympic Village on 5 September 1972 and took as hostage nine members of Israel's Olympic team after killing two who resisted.