Overview
- South Korean officials on Monday warned of a “serious shortage” of rooms and called the makeshift housing the “worst ever,” saying some container huts have beds too short for tall athletes.
- Several delegations reported practical problems this week, with a South Korean player posting video of a leaking sink and soaked floor and the Philippine team moving some coaches into Airbnb lodgings.
- Record rainfall forced brief evacuations from the Garden Pier area, where about 2,000 athletes are due to stay in wooden and shipping-container huts, raising fresh worries about weather vulnerability.
- Organisers have hired the cruise ship Costa Serena to house between 4,000 and 5,000 people and say all athletes registered before the July deadline will be provided accommodation, but teams remain uneasy.
- More than 17,000 athletes and officials are expected, a figure above initial planning, and the patchwork housing approach driven by budget and manpower limits risks reputational and logistical fallout if conditions worsen.