Olympic Park
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An Olympic Park is a venue or group of venues set up when a country hosts the Olympic Games.
List of Olympic Parks
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- Olympiapark, Munich
- Park Olympique, Montreal
- Olympic Park, Sydney
- Athens Olympic Sports Complex
- Olympic Green
- Olympic Park, London
- Olympic Park, Melbourne
- Olympic Park, Seoul
- Centennial Olympic Park, Atlanta
The Olympic Village
Sometimes, an Olympic Village is built within the Olympic Park or they could be built elsewhere in the city. Olympic Villages are built to house all participating athletes, as well as officials, trainers, etc. The first Olympic Village was built in Los Angeles for the 1932 Summer Olympics.List of Olympic Villages
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- Mexico City 1968- 904 apartments distributed in twenty nine 29 multi-stories buildings in the Miguel Hidalgo Olympic Village Complex.
- Munich 1972-Multiple buildings of 25, 22, 20, 19, 16, 15, and 12 stories.
- Montreal 1976-Two 23-story pyramid-shaped buildings.
- Los Angeles 1984-The UCLA residents facilities , University of South California and University of California at Santa Barbara
- Moscow 1980-Eighteen 16-story buildings.
- Seoul 1988- Twenty-one 24-story buildings
- Barcelona 1992-Two 40 and 44-story buildings
- Atlanta 1996 -Georgia State University (Only the Olympic Aquatic facilities belonged to Georgia Tech)
- Sydney 2000 - A new suburb, Newington, which became residential following the games.
- Beijing 2008-Twenty-Two 6-story buildings and twenty 9-story buildings.
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