Hi everybody I'm

I'm Brittany Lewis of reporter here at Forbes

joining me now is my Forbes colleague

staff writer Justin Birnbaum

Justin, thanks so much for coming in

thanks for having me, Brittany. The Olympics are

underway and at the Olympics thousands of athletes historically stay in the

lodging known as Olympic Village. Your reporting USA basketball is opting out with a really heavy price tag, but first take us

inside Olympic Village.

What are the accommodations like?

Yeah, so like you said, I believe the number here this year is over 14,000 athletes are staying in the Olympic village and this is a common thing at the games, you know, they put them up in this kind of communal environment.

I think the best way to think of it would be like kind of communal environment.

I think the best way to think of it would be like a really nice kind of college dorm

situation, you know, at the Olympic Village, you know, you share a room, you know, there are

sweets, common bathrooms.

The kind of conditions have been all over social media, so, you know, it's not like we have to leave it to the imagination.

I think the two things that have kind of stood out the most were the cardboard

beds that a lot of Olympic athletes have have pointed out also the battle over air

conditioning because originally the Paris Olympics was set they wanted to kind of make an effort

for to be environmentally conscious and they weren't going to have air conditioning and there was a

battle that kind of went back and forth with a lot of athletes wanting to bring their own

air conditioning units in so it. So from the outside looking in, it seems relatively nice,

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