(NEXSTAR) – Team USA’s Olympic track and field athletes are getting ready for competitions at an impressive training facility just outside of Paris.
The Team USA High Performance Center is considered a “home away from home” for U.S. athletes during the Paris Olympic Games, Alyssa Orange of Nexstar’s KNWA explained.
“This is a facility that has a full indoor and outdoor track, basketball courts and a swimming pool, as well as a full sports medicine clinic, recovery center,” Orange said, standing just outside the facility’s gates. “There’s some residential areas with sleeping rooms, [and] mental health experts and sports psychologists all right here on location, to give these United States athletes anything that they want.”
Just 10 minutes away is what’s referred to as the “Island Track,” where a majority of athletes from other countries are training.
“It was pretty cool to see all these guys out there training, getting in their workouts that they have to do in preparation for track and field to start here in the next couple of days,” Orange said.
More from Orange, including a look at the Island Track facility, can be seen in the video above.
