Australian beach volleyball player Taliqua Clancy got an unexpected surprise walking around the athletes’ village at the Paris Olympics.
Jump into summer fun with this week’s amazing Insider DealsFILE - People walk in front of the canteen in the Olympic Village, at the 2024 Summer Olympics , Monday, July 22, 2024, in Paris, France. “We got to see him which was cool. I was hanging around hoping to get a selfie, but I had to come here" for a news conference, she told reporters, laughing. She probably wouldn't have got close enough, anyway, because Macron's security team ushered her away.
The village has a large dining hall with different food stations catering for different tastes from around the world, a vast gym, training grounds for a number of sports, a polyclinic, prayer rooms and an anti-doping centre. “The most noticeable thing is people are not wearing masks,” Knewstubb said, adding that he likes how athletes can now say hello to each other or come up and swap pins “without the hesitation of Covid.”
“There was a lot of learning to take out of Tokyo, that played in the decisions we have made in our set up," she said."We have kept our barista,” she said. “One big question I asked when I took on this role was ‘Why was the barista so popular?’ And that was because it created this social hub for the athletes.”
That moment will involve facing the roar of a sell-out 80,000 crowd at Stade de France. It should be quite an experience for Williams and his teammates at France's landmark national stadium, but beach volleyball players have arguably the best location of all.
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