Lillehammer Olympic Village

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Lillehammer Olympic Village (Norwegian : Lillehammer OL-landsby) was an artificial village constructed in Lillehammer, Norway, to accommodate 2,300 athletes and leaders during the 1994 Winter Olympics, and subsequently a smaller number during the 1994 Winter Paralympics. The Hamar Olympic Subsite Village was in Hamar; part of Toneheim Folk High School, it was able to accommodate 500 athletes and leaders.

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Lillehammer is a town and municipality in Oppland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. As of 2018, the population of the town of Lillehammer was 28,034. The city centre is a late nineteenth-century concentration of wooden houses, which enjoys a picturesque location overlooking the northern part of lake Mjøsa and the river Lågen, surrounded by mountains. Lillehammer hosted the 1994 Winter Olympics and 2016 Winter Youth Olympics. Before Oslo's withdrawal from consideration, it was included as part of a bid to host events in the 2022 Winter Olympics if Oslo were to win the rights to hold the Games.

Lillehammer

The Lillehammer Olympic Village was built at Skårsetlia, 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) northeast of the town center of Lillehammer. It was built on a 230 hectares (570 acres) property and had 55,000 square meters (590,000 sq ft) of real estate. This gave a capacity for 2,300 athletes and leaders from 67 nations. In addition, there was a 7,000-square-meter (75,000 sq ft) service center, including a 2,000-square-meter (22,000 sq ft) cafeteria which could serve 2,000 people simultaneously. There were security posts at the entrance to the village, with bus stops, parking and a reception further in. Heating was provided by electricity, solar power, gas and geothermal heat.^[1]

Each team was allocated a common area after the size of the team. Common rooms varied from 38 to 288 square meters (410 to 3,100 sq ft), all teams received a main leader room of 12 square meters (130 sq ft), between one and three additional 8-square-meter (86 sq ft) leader rooms, between one and three 13-square-meter (140 sq ft) medical rooms, between one and four 18-square-meter (190 sq ft) massage rooms, a storage room between 20 and 50 square meters (220 and 540 sq ft), and a drying room between 10 and 64 square meters (110 and 690 sq ft).^[1]

Construction started in 1992 and the first house was completed on 10 August. Average production per day was 250 square meters (2,700 sq ft); to get sufficient speed, several contractors with different prefabrication methods were selected. The village, consisting of wooden buildings, including parts in glue-laminated wood, was completed in December 1993 costing 250 million Norwegian krone (NOK). However, the reception building was made of aluminum modules, allowing it to be moved afterwards. During the games, it was rented by the Lillehammer Olympic Organizing Committee. The village consisted of a permanent part of 185 houses; of which 141 were sold privately after the games. Re-building and dismounting started in April 1994. The service center was afterwards converted to a cafeteria, senior center, a church and a nursery school. The rest of the buildings were mobile and sold to other parts of the country after the games. The temporary part was built on farmland which was taken into use as such from 1996.^[1]

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The Lillehammer Olympic Organizing Committee or LOOC was the company responsible for organizing the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. The company was founded on 15 November 1988, after Lillehammer's successful bid to host the games, and led by Gerhard Heiberg. It was reorganized several times with various subsidiaries, but from 1993 consisted of a single company owned 51% of Lillehammer Municipality, 24.5% by the Government of Norway and 24.5% by the Norwegian Olympic Committee.

Hamar

The Hamar Olympic Subsite Village was located at Toneheim Folk High School in Hamar, 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) from Vikingskipet. In addition to the schools dormitory, the surrounding land was used to construct temporary estate. Total floor area was 6,450 square meters (69,400 sq ft), which allowed for 500 athletes and leaders.^[2] The Hamar site was used for athletes competing in Hamar, which consisted of speed skating, short track speed skating and figure skating.

Vikingskipet Indoor arena in Hamar, Norway

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Venues of the 1994 Winter Olympics Wikimedia list article

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Hamar stadion is a former athletics, speed skating and bandy stadium in Hamar, Norway. The home ground of Hamar IL, it was owned by Hamar Municipality. It has held seven international speed skating events: the European Speed Skating Championships in 1934, 1948 and 1953, the World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men in 1952 and 1985, and the World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Women in 1980 and 1991. The stadium has held 13 Norwegian Championships and 11 world records have been set at the venue.

Vikingskipet Station was a temporary railway station located at Åkervika in Hamar, Norway, on the Røros Line. The station was officially opened on 16 August 1993, and was used during 1993 and 1994 to allow spectators direct access to the sports venue Vikingskipet for the 1993 UCI Track Cycling World Championships and the speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics, saving them a 1 kilometer (0.6 mi) walk from Hamar Station. The station is a cul-de-sac station which is electrified, unlike the rest of the Røros Line. Officially is a side track of Hamar Station, denoted track 42.

The 2016 Winter Youth Olympics in and around Lillehammer, Norway, between 12 February and 21 February 2016. Nine competition and twelve non-competition venues are to be used; all except the Youth Olympic Village in Lillehammer and a training ice rink being are existing venues. All the competition venues and some of the non-competition venues were built ahead of the 1994 Winter Olympics. The games be held in four municipalities: Lillehammer, Hamar, Gjøvik and Øyer.

Speed skating at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics was held at the Hamar Olympic Hall in Hamar, Norway between 13 and 19 February 2016.

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1 2 3 LOOC (III): 76–79
↑ LOOC (III): 79

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Lillehammer Olympic Organizing Committee. "1994 Winter Olympics Report, volume III" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 December 2010. Retrieved 10 December 2010.

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