Ahead of Friday's opening ceremony at the Paris Olympics', athletes are settling into their accommodations at the Olympic Village.
The village in Seine-Saint-Denis is the size of 70 soccer fields and offers amenities, including a sprawling food court with various cuisines, an expansive gym, and a medical center, The Associated Press reported. It's even home to a boulangerie, or a French bakery, that's providing baking classes to Olympians looking for a way to relax, The New York Times reported.
By these standards, the accommodations offered at the last Paris Olympics — held a century ago — were rudimentary. Yet they were still pioneering: The 1924 Olympics was home to the first-ever Olympic Village, inspired by organizers' desire to simplify the Games' logistics and bring athletes from many nations together in one place.
Many of the 3,089 athletes competing across 17 sports that year stayed in the Olympic Village, which offered three meals a day, running water, and proximity to their events.
Here's what it was like to stay there.