Paris CNN —When Paris last hosted the Summer Olympics 100 years ago, organizers were so keen to bring athletes under the same roof that they built the first-ever Olympic Village.
Athletes sitting in front of a cabin in the Olympic Village at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.
The site for the Olympic Village was chosen in the hopes it would revitalize some of the city’s historically impoverished northern suburbs.
A stool made from recyclable cardboard on display in the athletes' accommodation in the Olympic Village in Saint Denis, France.
Nathan Laine/Bloomberg/Getty ImagesA cardboard bed inside an athletes' room at the Olympic Village in Saint Denis, France.
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