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Welcome aboard the Costa Serena, the Asian Games floating hotel⁣ ⁣ Mongolian athletes dig into a buffet including mozzarella made by an expert, an aroma steam bath awaits its next visitor and competitors saunter across the carpeted floor.⁣ ⁣ Welcome on board the Costa Serena, the cruise ship with a capacity of nearly 4,000 people serving as a floating hotel for Asian Games participants in Japan.⁣ ⁣ The continent's premier sports event has made headlines for the wrong reasons, with teams complaining about a general shortage of rooms and buses that don't turn up when they should, and sometimes not at all.⁣ ⁣ In a break from previous Games, organisers in Aichi-Nagoya did not construct a traditional athletes' village in order to save money. Instead, the more than 17,000 athletes and officials -- a greater number than the Olympics -- are staying in hotels, temporary wooden units and on the Italian-flagged Costa Serena.⁣ ⁣ Cruise ships have been used to house athletes at sports events before...
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