Olympic Village

The first official modern Olympic Village was built for the 1932 Summer Games in Los Angeles, and it housed 2,000 people. Prior to this, athletes stayed in hotels, schools, or barracks, or even slept on boats they brought to the host city. The 1932 Village served as a model for today's Olympic Villages, providing community services such as a hospital, fire station, and post office. The Village has since become a standard feature of the Olympics, with a permanent Olympic Village established at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. After the Munich massacre in 1972, the Villages have been made extremely secure, with only athletes, trainers, and officials allowed to stay, and strict security checks in place.learn more on wikipedia