Photos: How the Olympic Village has evolved over the years
The athlete's villages of modern Olympics look a bit different than those of decades past. Here's a look.
A view of the Olympic Village in Paris for the Summer Olympics in 1924. (AP PHoto)
FILE - This is a June 8, 1932, file photo showing the administration building of the Olympic Village, where athletes from around the world will live, during the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. The large archway in the center is the entrance to the village. (AP Photo/File)
Air view of the Olympic Village near Los Angeles, California, July 18, 1932 where athletes of all nations entered in the Olympic games will be housed. The village overlooks Los Angeles and its suburbs. (AP Photo)
Olympic Village's Main Street in Los Angeles, Calif., 1932. (AP Photo)
In the front row, from left to right are, Cornelius Johnson, Jesse Owens and Glenn Hardin shown at their Olympic village quarters receiving congratulations from their American Olympic teammates as the first Americans to win firsts in the Olympics in Berlin on Aug. 8, 1936. In the back row, from left to right are, Marty Glickman, Gene Venzke, Albert J. Mangin, Foy Draper and Forrest G.Towns.(AP Photo)
One of the main competitors' camps for the 1948 Summer Olympic Games is under construction in the Royal Park at Richmond, Surrey, England, United Kingdom. The camp is situated on high ground and provides an extensive view over the ancient deer parks and surrounding countryside. A former army convalescent hospital, the camp has been converted to accommodate 1,500 competitors and a domestic staff of 200. Though the arrangements are of necessity on a utility basis, the social needs of the competitors are being catered for and there will be writing rooms, cafe, milk bar and a cinema seating 500 persons. The camp will have its own shops, including bookstall, cobblers, hairdressers dry-cleaning and laundry services, bank and post office. Arrangements have also been made to enable competitors to hire taxis, obtain theatre tickets, etc. In this image workmen are seen engaged in converting the former army convalescent hospital at Richmond, Surrey, into an Olympic games competitors' camp on Feb. 12, 1948. (AP Photo/Dennis Lee Royle)
One of the main competitors' camps for the 1948 Summer Olympic Games is under construction in the Royal Park at Richmond, Surrey, England, United Kingdom. The camp is situated on high ground and provides an extensive view over the ancient deer parks and surrounding Surrey countryside. A former army convalescent hospital, the camp has been converted to accommodate 1,500 competitors plus a domestic staff of 200. Though the arrangements are of necessity on a utility basis, the social needs of the competitors are being gathered for and there will be writing rooms, cafe, milk bar and a cinema seating 500 persons. The camp will have its own shops including bookstall, cobblers, hairdressers, dry-cleaning and laundry services, bank and post office. Arrangements are also being made to enable competitors to hire taxis, obtain theatre tickets, etc. Workers are seen digging drainage trenches at the 1948 Olympic Games, competitors' camp at Richmond, Surrey, England on Feb. 12, 1948. (AP Photo/Dennis Lee Royle)
A general view of one of the main competitors' camps for the 1948 Summer Olympics under construction in the Royal Park at Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom on Feb. 12, 1948. The camp is situated on high ground and provides an extensive view over the ancient deer parks and surrounding Surrey countryside. A former army convalescence home, the camp has been converted to accommodate 1,500 competitors and a domestic staff of 200. Though the arrangements are of necessity on a utility basis, the social needs of the competitors are being catered for and there will be writing rooms, cafe, milk bar and a cinema seating 500 persons. The camp will have its own shops, including bookstall, cobblers, hairdressers, dry-cleaning and laundry services, bank and post offices and arrangements are also being made to enable competitors to hire taxis. (AP Photo/Dennis Lee Royle)
Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh (right) selects food at steam table on July 27, 1952 at the Olympic Village cafeteria near Helsinki, Finland. The Duke dined in the cafeteria with British and Commonwealth athletes. (AP Photo/Pool)
Aerial View of Olympic Village at Heidelberg, nine miles from Melbourne, Australia, in 1956. (AP Photo)
Hungarian athletes, who have indicated that they will not be returning to their homeland, talk over plans at the Olympic Village in Melbourne on Dec. 8, 1956. From left to right are noted miler Laszlo Tabort, and water polo players Gyorgy Karpati and Ervin Zador. The latter has an eye injury suffered in a brawl with a Russian water polo player on 6th December. A number of members of the Hungarian Olympic team have indicated that they will not be returning home. (AP Photo)
Members of the Japanese Women's Winter Olympic team enter their dormitory after their arrival at the Olympic Village in Squaw Valley on Feb. 6, 1960. (AP Photo)BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE
American shotput and discus thrower Earlene Brown dances with Hermann Stokes, runner for the American team, at the Club in the Olympic village, Rome, on Aug. 27, 1960. (AP Photo/Walter Lindlar)
The Olympic village is crossed by a new elevated highway shown May 12, 1960. (AP Photo/Jim Pringle)
An unidentified athlete laces his shoes in his room at the Olympic village in Rome, Italy, July 25, 1960. (AP Photo)
Flags fly from poles at the Olympic Village July 26, 1960 after its official inauguration. Officials and guests walk in the village where 7,00 athletes from 87 countries will live in the village during the games. (AP Photo)
From left to right; boxing coach Waldemar Zumbano, light heavyweight boxing champion Jose Pedro Leite and basketball player Carmo de Souza, all of Brazil, try to help Gino Lamberti to get his lawn mower going at the Olympic village in Rome on Aug. 29, 1960. (AP Photo/FLS)
Sipping soft drinks at the bar in the Olympic Village in Rome, Italy are US athlete Ray Morton from San Francisco, right, and Austrian foil fencer Traudl Ebert from Vienna in August 1960, during the Summer Olympic Games. (AP Photo/Werner Kreusch)
Sabah Abdi Abdulla, the coach of the Iraq weightlifting team at the Rome Summer Olympics, gives instructions to his team members in the Olympic Village on August 30, 1960 in Rome, Italy. Sabah Abdi Abdulla stands at extreme left, then from left to right: Hassan Hussalin; Elia Zuhair; Mahmood Rasheed; Abduwahid Aziz; Salman Shakir and Abduiabbar Hadi. (AP Photo/Walter Lindlar)
West German 200 meter breaststroke swimmer Wiltrud Urelmann, relaxes in the Olympic village, at the XVIII Olympic Games, in Rome, Italy, on Aug 28, 1960. (AP Photo/Kreusch)
Women of the Australian Olympic squad take their turn exercising, Aug. 20, 1960 the Olympic Village in Rome for the opening of the Olympic games on Aug. 25. (AP Photo)
Athlete Armin Hary, German winner of the 100 metres race, with famous US athlete Jesse Owens, as they pretend to start at race at the Olympic village, Rome, in Aug. 1960. (AP Photo/FLS)
Said Bey Moha, the Moroccan 5000m racer, and Lahcen Bey Mohamed, the 3000m racer, get a drink of coffee from Magda Nabuco, a Brazilian worker in the Club at the Olympic village, Rome, on Aug. 27, 1960. (AP Photo/Walter Lindlar)
Wide angle view of Winter Olympics area of Squaw Valley, California from above ski jumps, Dec. 15, 1959. Olympics village left background. Ice Arena dominates scene with speed skating rink in front. To left to Ice Arena are administrations and press building and transportation center. Entrance road comes in from right. Peaked buildings with large window areas are spectator centers. (AP Photo/Ernest K. Bennett)
Horseplay mixes with calisthenics as Russian athletes limber up outside their Olympic Village dormitory before breakfast, Feb. 17, 1960, Squaw Valley, Calif . They have only left to get ready for the winter games starting. The athletes are unidentified. (AP Photo)
Bulgarian Olympic athletes Nikolai Prodanov and Diana Yorgova are married in the Olympic Village in Tokyo, Japan by a Japanese Shinto priest on Oct. 23, 1964. (AP Photo)
Six bikini-clad members of Norway's gymnastic team and one male soak up the sun in the Olympic Village in Mexico City, Oct. 27, 1968, before packing for their return home and a winter of snow and cold. From front to rear Helga Braathen, Eva Berge, Wenche Sjong, wrestler Hakhon Overby, Anne Lise Lilja, Lillian Larssen, Torunn Isberd. (AP Photo)
Athletes relax by the pool at the Olympic Village at Mexico City, Mexico in October of 1968. This is the Nineteenth Olympiad, of the summer games. (AP Photo)
Pictured here are visitors to the Olympic Village for the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, Mexico, 1968. (AP Photo)
Pictured here is the Olympic Village for the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, Mexico, 1968. (AP Photo)
Unidentified building under construction at the Olympic Village in Mexico City, Mexico for the the 1968 Summer Games. Mexico City is the site for the Nineteenth Olympiad. (AP Photo)
Britain's Prince Philip laughs with Olympic delegation and hostesses as he tours the Olympic Village in Mexico City, Mexico, Oct. 15, 1968. (AP Photo)
Helen Sander, 17, of Ottawa, a member of Canada’s Cross Country Ski Team, finds herself surrounded by young Japanese autograph collectors at the Olympic Village in Sapporo, Japan on Thursday, Jan. 27, 1972. (AP Photo/J Walter Green)
John Carlos, who broke the 200-meters record, signs an autograph for a girl in front of the buildings of the Olympic village in Munich, Germany August 10, 1972. (AP Photo)
Seen here are the men's quarters in the Olympic Village for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. (AP Photo)
Pictured here is the Olympic Village in Munich, Germany, the site of the 1972 Summer Olympics. (AP Photo)
Curiosity-seekers stand and sit outside the Olympic Village in Munich, West Germany, September 5, 1972, where Arab commandos seized the Israeli Olympic team quarters early today and are still holding several members of the team hostage there. (AP Photo/Anonymous)
An unidentified member of the Hong Kong team at the Olympic Village jumps out of the balcony of his apartment located in the same building where Arab guerillas are holding 13 Israeli hostages after killing two others in Munich, Sept. 5, 1972. (AP Photo)
Unidentified persons are seen on the Munich Olympic Village building where Arab terrorists are holding Israeli team members hostage, Sept. 5, 1972. Building provided quarters for Uruguay and Hong Kong teams besides housing the Israelis. (AP Photo)
Scenic view of the site where the XXI Olympic Games will be held later this month in Montreal, Canada. Showing in foreground, the Olympic Village for the athletes of 118 countries, and in background, the main stadium and the swimming pool, left. (AP Photo)
Shirley Babashoff, America's top hope for gold medals in Olympic swimming events, greets autograph seekers as she clears customs at the Olympic Village in Montreal, Canada, July 12, 1976. (AP Photo/Sal Veder)
Olympic soccer players Lomo Michel, left, and Awuley Quaya of Ghana do last minute shopping at Olympic Village before leaving Montreal for home on July 18, 1976. Their team is joining other African teams in pulling out of the games over issue involving a New Zealand rugby team touring South Africa. (AP Photo/Kolenovsky)
Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain listens to Yvon Dubois, mayor of the Olympic Village in Montreal, July 18, 1976 as she looks over the Olympic Parc from the roof of one of the apartment houses of the village. In front of the Queen is another building housing athletes; left, in background is the velodrome and the main Olympic Stadium. (AP Photo/J. Walter Green)
The Russian sign at right shows the way to the Olympic Village, where athletes will live during the 1980 Summer Olympic Games, as construction continues in preparation for the games in Moscow, Soviet Union, Nov. 16, 1978. (AP Photo)
Views of Olympic Village in Moscow in July 1979. (AP Photo)
Bernard O’Connell, from Boston Mass., right, coach of the Kuwaiti team and some of his athletes, are all smiles, as they show up at the disco of the Olympic village in Moscow, Tuesday, July 16, 1980. O’Connell is one of the few Americans here, attending they games, either as coaches, or as members of other nationality teams, because they are naturalized. (AP Photo)
The West German Olympic luge team is pictured, Tuesday, Feb., 5, 1980 in Lake Placid, New York, as they stroll through the Olympic Village before heading to the luge race track for a first sight and a test. In foreground right is Elisabeth Demleitner, one of the competitors, performing funny gestures. (AP Photo)
Soviet luge competitors Sergej Danilin (left with fur hat) and Valerij Yakushin try pinball machines set up for he athletes in the Olympic Village game room, Feb. 7, 1980 in Lake Placid. The Soviet team has arrived Lake Placid for the Olympic Games on Tuesday Evening. (AP Photo)
Olympic figure skaters Kristina Wegelius, of Finland, left, and U.S. entry Mike Seibert, of Santa Ana Cal., inspect the giant ice castle, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 1980 in Lake Placid which is built up outside the Olympic village. (AP Photo)
The Olympic Village is shown in an aerial photo. The site will house approximately 1,400 athletes and 600 officials in Ray Brook during the 1980 Winter Olympics, March 3, 1979 in Lake Placid, N.Y., about five miles away. After the Winter Games, the facility will be used as a federal medium-security prison. (AP Photo)
A state trooper with a German shepherd patrols along the fence of the Olympic Village in Lake Placid, N.Y., Feb. 4, 1980, as part of the security measures for the athletes who will live here during the upcoming Winter Games. (AP Photo/Dieter Endlicher)
A view of what will be the Athletes Village for the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympic Games at Parkside at the University of Southern California shown in 1983. (AP Photo)
U.S. slalom skier Steve Mahre from White Pass, Wash. carries his two-year-old daughter Ginger on his arm to show her around in the Olympic Athlete Village, Feb. 10, 1984 in Sarajevo. Steve Mahre together with his twin brother Phil will enter the Olympic slalom events during the XIVth Winter Olympic Games. (AP Photo/Pete Leabo)
Aerial view of Seoul’s Olympic Park showing venues and athletes’ and press villages on August 21, 1988. Venues are from left: Swimming pool, gymnastics, fencing, weightlifting and verodrome. In the background soaring are: Athletes’ village, center, and press village, right. In the foreground is an artificial lake. (AP Photo/Dick Fung)
A man shadows his eyes as he passes along huge welcome signs inside the Olympic village (Vila Olympica), Saturday, July 18, 1992, Barcelona, Spain. The Catalan capitol greets thousands of athletes from around the world in the next days as the opening ceremony for the XXV Olympic summer games. (AP Photo/Michel Lipchitz)
Team USA's Earvin "Magic" Johnson makes his way through the Olympic village in Barcelona, Friday, July 24, 1992 as the Dream Team arrives for the XXV summer Olympics. (AP Photo/Cliff Schiappa)
A completed dorm room is displayed in the Olympic Village in Atlanta, Ga., July 12, 1995. About 4,000 athletes will be housed in the four-tower complex that will be turned over to Georgia State University for student housing after the games. (AP Photo/Tannen Maury)
Members of the media tour the new Olympic Village where athletes will stay during the 2002 Winter Olympics, Monday, Jan. 7, 2002, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Steve C. Wilson)
A view of the Olympic Village, northwest of central Athens, Thursday, July 22, 2004. Control of the Olympic Village officially passed to games organizers Thursday, a day before heads of teams arrive to inspect the complex. During the Aug. 13-29 Olympics, the village will be home to about 16, 000 athletes and officials. (AP Photo/str)
Two flags adorn the beds at a Swiss delegation room in the Athletes village in Beijing , China, Sunday, July, 27, 2008. The Olympic village, which opened today will house about 16,000 athletes. AP Photo/ Elizabeth Dalziel)
Chinese cooks prepare food for the Olympic Athletes at the Olympic village dining facilities after the opening ceremony for the Athletes village in Beijing , China, Sunday, July, 27, 2008. The Olympic village will house about 16,000 athletes. .AP Photo/ Elizabeth Dalziel)
Athletes work out at the Olympic Village at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Whistler, British Columbia, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Athletes are seen in the dining hall at the Olympic Village at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Marcio Sanchez)
Italian speed skaters play a video game in the Olympic Village at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Marcio Sanchez)
Austian speedskaters Konrad Niedswiedzki, left, and Anna Rokita play video games at the Olympic Village at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Marcio Sanchez)
A message of support is displayed as athletes are welcomed to the Olympic Village ahead of the 2012 Summer Olympics at the Olympic Park on Thursday, July 26, 2012, in London. The opening ceremonies for the 2012 London Olympics will be held Friday, July 27. (AP Photo/Alexander Hassenstein, Pool)
National flags fly in the Olympic Village ahead of the Summer 2012 Olympics on Thursday, July 26, 2012, in London. The opening ceremonies for the 2012 London Olympics will be held Friday, July 27. (AP Photo/Alexander Hassenstein, Pool)
Damiano Martinuzzi of Belgium plays pool in the Olympic Village ahead of the Summer 2012 Olympics on Thursday, July 26, 2012, in London. The opening ceremonies for the 2012 London Olympics will be held Friday, July 27. (AP Photo/Alexander Hassenstein, Pool)
Members of the National Youth Theatre of Britain greet arriving athletes and officials at their Olympic Village in east London with welcoming song and dance routines, one week ahead of the start of the London 2012 Olympic games Friday July 20, 2012. (AP Photo/John Stillwell, Pool)
In this Tuesday July 31, 2012 photo, Olympic athletes queue up at the McDonalds inside the dining hall at the Olympic Village in London. The athletes' dining room in the Olympic village is a food court like no other, offering the world's elite athletes healthy, hearty food and fuel, 24 hours a day _ and doing it the Slow Food way. And yet, off in the back corner of the dining room, next to the coffee bar that's disproportionately populated by Italians queuing up for their morning espresso, lurks McDonald's and its Sausage & Egg McMuffins. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
Olympic athletes dine at the dining hall inside the Olympic Village, Tuesday July 31, 2012 in London. The athletes' dining room in the Olympic village is a food court like no other, offering the world's elite athletes healthy, hearty food and fuel, 24 hours a day _ and doing it the Slow Food way. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
A Canadian athletes takes a drink from a refrigerator in the main dining hall inside the London 2012 Olympic Village in Stratford, east London on Tuesday, July 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett, Pool)
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, flanked by Head of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee Dmitry Chernyshenko, visits the Olympic village in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, southern Russia, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Presidential Press Service)
The Olympic Village is reflected in an apartment window in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, July 23, 2016. The brand new complex of residential towers are where nearly 11,000 athletes and some 6,000 coaches and other handlers will sleep, eat and train during the upcoming games, that will kickoff on Aug. 5(AP Photo/Leo Correa)
A banner of the Slovenia team hangs on the top of a building of the Olympic Village in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, July 23, 2016. The brand new complex of residential towers are where nearly 11,000 athletes and some 6,000 coaches and other handlers will sleep, eat and train during the upcoming games, that will kickoff on Aug. 5. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Beds stand ready in the bedroom of an apartment of the Olympic Village in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, July 23, 2016. The brand new complex of residential towers are where nearly 11,000 athletes and some 6,000 coaches and other handlers will sleep, eat and train during the upcoming games, that will kickoff on Aug. 5(AP Photo/Leo Correa)
A sign indicates the directions in the Olympic Village in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, July 23, 2016. The brand new complex of residential towers are where nearly 11,000 athletes and some 6,000 coaches and other handlers will sleep, eat and train during the upcoming games, that will kickoff on Aug. 5. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
The main dinning room at the Olympic Village stands ready in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, July 23, 2016. The brand new complex of residential towers are where nearly 11,000 athletes and some 6,000 coaches and other handlers will sleep, eat and train during the upcoming games, that will kickoff on Aug. 5. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
A bathroom of an apartment of the Olympic Village stands ready in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, July 23, 2016. The brand new complex of residential towers are where nearly 11,000 athletes and some 6,000 coaches and other handlers will sleep, eat and train during the upcoming games, that will kickoff on Aug. 5. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Fitness equipment fills a gym at Olympic Village in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, July 23, 2016. The brand new complex of residential towers are where nearly 11,000 athletes and some 6,000 coaches and other handlers will sleep, eat and train during the upcoming games, that will kickoff on Aug. 5. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Bahamian sprinter Teray Smith poses for photos with a backdrop showing the view of Rio de Janeiro at the Olympic Village ahead of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, center, tours the Pyeongchang Olympic Village dining room prior to the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Monday, Feb. 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool)
International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, left, tours the Pyeongchang Olympic Village with IOC officials prior to the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Monday, Feb. 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool)
The Olympic Village for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics is seen Wednesday, July 3, 2019, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Journalist walk at the Village Plaza near Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Village during a media tour Sunday, June 20, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
Journalists look at cardboard beds for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic at the Village Plaza near Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Village Sunday, June 20, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
Replica sets of bedroom furniture, including cardboard beds, for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Villages are shown in a display room at the Village Plaza Sunday, June 20, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
Flags and banners hang from Great Britain team apartments in the Olympic athletes' village ahead of the 2020 Summer Olympics, Monday, July 19, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
National banners hang from balconies at an athlete's village as Tokyo prepares for the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, July 18, 2021. The pandemic-delayed games open on July 23 without spectators at most venues. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Journalists film an electric-powered bed for athletes at the Olympics Village for Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games and Paralympic Winter Games, during a media tour in Zhangjiakou in northwestern China's Hebei province on Wednesday, July 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Journalists tour the Olympics Village for Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games and Paralympic Winter Games, during a media tour in Zhangjiakou in northwestern China's Hebei province on Wednesday, July 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)