The sprawling facility in Saarland, the most 'French' state in these parts, gives athletes a taste of what to expect at the Games
SAARBRUCKEN: It is wrapping up time here at the SportCampus Saar. The sandbags are being unhooked and towed away, weights dismantled from bars and stowed one atop the other, creating a few hundred little pyramids of their own. The heating of the sauna is being brought down a few notches, the hoops and rings being pulled down in the performance halls, hurdles stacked away, badminton nets rolled away. In the cafeteria, there are unspoken instruction to prepare less quantities of food from now on.
