Map of the village (version 3, although now they're working with version 5 so it may be slightly outdated).

We had the good fortune to run into the XC Director for the Olympics at Callaghan Thursday and he got us an invite to check out the Whistler Athlete Village today. It's still off the tourist track-- they did a background check on Vordy to make sure we were really legit and had to get permission from some Olympic Committee in Beijing. They also claim that we're the first athletes other than the Canadian sliding team to check out the village. Being here definitely makes me psyched to come back and race. I want to see the finished product of all this construction!

I was entertained (and actually quite grateful) by the attention the are giving to the needs of the athlete. Listening to our guides I felt like "the athletes" were a sort of different breed with special needs and a finicky temperament. The athletes get there own entrance to the village, here's the main dining hall where the athletes can get whatever they want, we're not going to allow self-serving of food because the athletes we consulted were worried about cross-contamination...

Makes me glad I don't have to cater to any of those spoiled athletes, geez.

Labels: 2010 Venue, photos