Tegucigalpa Olympic Village
The Olympic Villa of Tegucigalpa is a sports complex situated northwest of Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. It was built by the Government of Honduras as the main sports center for the capital and as a residence for athletes participating in international events. It is situated behind the Autonomous National University of Honduras, and can be used free of charge by the general public for the practice of all types of sporting disciplines.[1]
History
The Tegucigalpa Olympic Village was built in 1989 during the presidency of José Azcona del Hoyo. It is a public sports complex owned by the state of Honduras and managed by the National Commission Pro Sport Installations (CONAPID), which operates with a monthly budget of 10 million lempira.
The Olympic village includes a variety of facilities with training equipment, including weights, gymnasiums, an Olympic-size swimming pool, several football fields, basketball, volleyball, and tennis courts. It was designed by various architects and engineers from Tegucigalpa. It was developed in order to modernize the area and accommodate the Central American and Caribbean Games, where Honduras won thirty-three medals in these games, including two gold, ten silver and twenty-one bronze medals.
Facilities
The buildings of the facility include:
- Swimming pools
- Gymnasium 1: Area designated to the disciplines of Olympic gymnastics, boxing, table tennis, Muay Thai, Kickboxing and Lima Lama.
- Gymnasium 2: Volleyball, fencing and weightlifting.
- Gymnasium 3: Basketball and martial arts (including Muay Thai)
- Chochi Sosa Baseball Stadium (Estadio Chochi Sosa), 1,500 seats.
- Olympic stadium: football and athletics, 3,000 seats.
Notable Honduran athletes include sprinter Rolando Palaces, hurdlers Ronald Bennett and Jeimmy Bernardez, all of whom participated in the Universiade in Belgrade (2009).
Sports
The Honduran Olympic Committee funds many Honduran athletes, providing food and accommodations, health care, training, and a monthly stipend of over 500 lempiras.
Access
Olympic Villa of Tegucigalpa is open to the public from the 4:00 am until 8:00 pm daily. There are no fees required to use the facilities.[2] The sporting installations of the villa was built with public resources, and is therefore a public complex. It typically receives at least one thousand visits a day.
Maintenance
The maintenance of the Olympic Villa of Tegucigalpa is the responsibility of the National Commission for Professional Sports Installations (Conapid) using funding which comes mainly from the Tiburcio Carías Andean Stadium.
Budget
The Conapid handles a global budget of 24 million lempiras yearly, roughly equalling $1 million. The Stadium Tiburcio Carías Andino (out of the Olympic villa) pays 11 million lempiras of the budget, while the remaining 13 million have to go out of sportive installations' income, leaving the Olympic Villa with less than 10 million lempiras per month.
Budget resources come from the Stadium Tiburcio Carías Andean, that is of all the Hondurans, were earn by leases, advertising, the 8 percent that pays the National League of Football of Honduras of the tequilas of each party and another lower income.
The Olympic Villa do not do collections to anybody by the provision of the installations, although, the federations do minimum collections to obtain of bottoms and can like this go out to his international competitions.
Nevertheless, it referred that with the constants heave of the prices in all the resources, to keep properly the complex, need that the government increase the budgetary game in at least 30 million lempiras.
News
The authorities of the National Commission of Sportive Installations (Conapid) were concerned when the Bank Centroamericano of Economic Integration donated one million dollars, equivalent to some 20 million lempiras, to recover the Olympic Villa.
In actuality it was given a suitable maintenance, and by the year 2008 they have invested 3,5 million lempiras in its maintenance.
Germán Duarte, the current supervisor of projects, is working on the repair of fields and a painting of flats in the three gymnasiums of the sports complex. His contributions have included the changing of ceiling of the Olympic swimming pool, painting of the terrace, meshing of the perimeters, and hiring several gardeners.
See also
References
- ↑ "Villa Olimpica". www.touristeye.com. Retrieved 2016-10-16.
- ↑ http://www.touristeye.com/Villa-Olimpica-Tegucigalpa-p-18340
External links
Coordinates: 14°05′27″N 87°09′50″W / 14.0908°N 87.1638°W