Some athletes are ditching the Olympic Village for hotels

Team USA women’s tennis players and South Korean swimmers are said to have headed for the exits. But some competitors enjoy daily life inside the village complex.

If you build it, they will come — but they might not stay.

The cramped bedroom quarters inside the Olympic Village at the Paris Games have apparently raised eyebrows among some athletes, including a few who chose to ditch their new digs for hotel rooms.

In a video on TikTok, Team USA tennis star Coco Gauff gave her followers a seven-second tour of the tight spaces where women were trying to do their hair and makeup. “10 girls, two bathrooms,” Gauff wrote in a text overlay. (The video was accompanied by screaming sound effects drawn from the horror movies “Pearl” and “Hereditary.”) 

“I would go to a hotel,” a TikTok user commented. Gauff’s reply: “all the tennis girls moved to a hotel except me. so now just 5 girls two bathrooms.” She elaborated in another reply: “well it’s only 5 girls now so I have the room alone. roommates are very chill.”

It was not clear exactly why the tennis players left the village.

https://www.nbcnews.com/sports/olympics/paris-olympic-village-hotels-athletes-rcna164040

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