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Reports from Belo Interactive contributors at the Olympics in Sydney, AustraliaMatt Zaffino: There's no place like home 10/01/2000 By Matt Zaffino / KGW.com, Portland, Oregon This is the place I've called home for the last 3 weeks:
Media Village at the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
You can see the rooms are
Spartan, but that TV on the closet has about 25 different Olympic channels on
it. That was kind of fun to have around. All live, many with no commentary.
The Sydney 2000 bedspread is apparently a coveted souvenir, because the
good folks at NBC Logistics slipped a memo under everyone's doors saying they
are to be left, and if not, you'll be charged $400.00 Aussie for it. Ouch! For a
single bed, no less.
You can see by the outside
that the grounds are quite pleasant, and I have to say the Aussies did a great
job providing us with a very workable living situation. Spartan as the rooms
were, it was clean, convenient, safe and easy to get around.
The
cafeteria/bar/barbie was a pretty neat place. Old style Australian architecture
with wrap around porches and a real ranch feel to it. On warm evening media-ites
hang out and decompress at tables on the lawn.
There's even a little
enclosure with some native Australian birds and kangaroos and wallabies in the
village.
The media village has served it's purpose well of housing
20,000 press people from all over the world well. But I won't feel too bad about
leaving and heading for the outback and sleeping under the stars or in a real
bed.
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