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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