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A 20 Billion Won Luxury Hotel in its Entirety… A Class Apart from the US National Basketball Team [2024 Paris Olympics]
US Basketball Team Rentes an Entire Paris Luxury Hotel to Compete with Superstars LeBron James, Stephen Curry, and More.
The US national basketball team, which will participate in the 2024 Paris Olympics, is making headlines in Paris for renting an entire luxury hotel during the Olympics.
The Olympics, which has declared "reducing carbon footprints" as a key task, will not install air conditioning in the athletes' village and will provide a vegetarian-based menu.
On the 28th (local time), the US business magazine Forbes reported that "the US national basketball team has rented an entire luxury hotel in Paris with 800 rooms," and that "it can accommodate a large number of people, including players and coaches, as well as their families, staff, team officials, and NBA officials." 바카라사이트
Forbes explained, "The cost of accommodation for the U.S. national basketball team during the Olympics is approximately 15 million dollars (about 20.8 billion won)," and "It is a huge amount compared to other sports that spend 300,000 to 400,000 dollars."
The U.S. national basketball team, which gathers the world's best players, has been famous for staying in luxury hotels and other places instead of using the athlete 's village since the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
They even used luxury cruise ships as accommodations for the 2004 Athens Olympics and 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
Forbes reported, "The National Basketball Association prepares accommodations isolated from the outside world for every Olympics in order to protect and manage the condition of top players.
Off-site accommodations can provide the players with the best diet, allow their families to visit freely, and solve room assignment issues."
The U.S. basketball team for this Olympics includes a number of superstars who are paid a lot of money in the NBA.
This year’s team includes stars who are paid in the hundreds of millions of won, such as LeBron James (LA Lakers), Stephen Curry (Golden State Warriors), and Kevin Durant (Phoenix Suns).
Meanwhile, the Olympics, which has declared 'reducing carbon footprints' as a key task, is not installing air conditioning in the athletes' village and is providing a vegetarian-based diet, which is causing complaints among the athletes.
In particular, there are concerns that the shuttle buses that are responsible for the movement of the athletes are not turning on the air conditioning, which may affect the performance of the athletes.
In response, the association is directly stepping in to help the athletes move around in some sports.
The Korea Table Tennis Association has secured separate vehicles with air conditioning and a separate resting space near the stadium at the request of the national team athletes participating in this Olympics so that they can move freely between the athletes' village and the stadium.
Ryu Seung-min, the president of the Korea Table Tennis Association, explained, "As a senior, not as the president, I decided to provide support because I wanted to provide some help to the athletes who have waited for this competition for four years."
Ryu Seung-min, the gold medalist in the men's singles at the 2004 Athens Olympics, is also the last person to win a gold medal in Korean table tennis.
