2026 Asian Games Athletes Village will not be Built

2026 Asian Games Athletes Village will not be Built... The Team will Likely Stay at the Hotel

Aichi-Nagoya organizing committee grapples with budget issues... Only two new stadiums

Compared to the 19th Asian Summer Games, which ended on the 8th in Hangzhou, China.

The scale of the 20th Asian Games, jointly hosted by Japan's Aichi Prefecture and Nagoya City in 2026, is expected to be significantly reduced. 바카라사이트

According to Inside the Games, an online media outlet that specializes in covering international multi-sports competitions such as the Olympics.

On the 11th, Yasuhiro Nakamori, Acting Secretary-General of the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games Organizing Committee, said, "We will not build an athletes village for athletes to stay during the competition, but will use existing hotels.

“I will do it,” he said.

Due to skyrocketing costs and tight time constraints, the Aichi and Nagoya organizing committees gave up on building the athletes' village.

Originally, the Hangzhou Asian Games were supposed to be held in 2022, but were postponed for a year and held this year due to the spread of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) in China.

The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) decided to hold the next Aichi-Nagoya Games in 2026, three years later instead of four, returning to the original cycle of holding the Games every four years in even-numbered years.

For the Aichi-Nagoya Games organizing committee, the preparation period has been reduced by one year compared to previous years.

The search for sponsors is about to begin in earnest.

The Aichi-Nagoya Games organizing committee also more than doubled the originally expected budget for the new athletes' village (USD 224 million, approximately KRW 269.9 billion), making it difficult to cover the entire competition budget within USD 1 billion (KRW 1.3391 trillion).

As things became difficult, we decided to rethink the budget from square one.

If an athlete's village in the form of an apartment village built for private sale after the Games is not built, various problems will arise.

Acting Director Nakamori said, "We are in contact with hotels near the stadium so that they can be used as an athletes' village," and predicted, "However, providing meals and services is a challenge."

When athletes stay at a hotel, specific individual safety measures, such as security screening, must be established.

The Aichi-Nagoya organizing committee explained that they plan to build only two new stadiums and use existing stadiums.

Facilities are planned to be recycled for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to be held in 2021, and plans are being made to hold swimming, diving, and horseback riding in Tokyo, and cycling in Shizuoka Prefecture near Tokyo.

The distance from Nagoya to Tokyo is approximately 350 km.

The distance between Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province, China, where the Hangzhou Asian Games were held, and Wenzhou, where soccer games were held, reached 300km.

Chinese state media reported that the funds invested in the Hangzhou Asian Games amounted to $30 billion, or a whopping 40 trillion won.

56 new stadiums and 30 training centers were built to make the event more like the Olympics, beyond the scale of the Asian Games.