{"id":22935,"date":"2021-06-17T17:30:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T16:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dreams.co.uk\/sleep-matters-club\/?p=22935"},"modified":"2024-06-13T11:57:26","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T10:57:26","slug":"paralympic-village-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreams.co.uk\/sleep-matters-club\/paralympic-village-japan","title":{"rendered":"Sleeping in the Paralympic Village: Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to getting ready for the Paralympics, sleep is an important factor for an athlete. For Paralympians, this also means overcoming accessibility challenges that may arise in hotel rooms and preparation camps. But without a good night\u2019s sleep, how can they expect to perform their best?<\/p>\n<p>We spoke to Caz and Anneli, from the British Paralympic Association about the preparation for the Tokyo Paralympics in 2021. Both Caz and Anneli help to scout suitable and accessible accommodation for their teams. This is a long process, which actually began as far back as 2015. They recommend changes to rooms, to make them more accessible, which also leaves a legacy of accessibility in cities they visit.<\/p>\n<p>Here, they give an insight into the challenges they face and what Paralympians need to ensure they are well-rested and ready to compete. Watch the video below or scroll down to read their answers.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sleeping in Tokyo with Paralympics GB: Caz Walton and Anneli MacDonald explain all\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3hfk7ZsRb-o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Here\u2019s an introduction to our guests:<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Anneli<\/strong>: Hi everybody, my name is Anneli MacDonald and I\u2019m the Preparation Manager for the British Paralympic Association. I run the pre-games preparation holding camp, which in 2021 will be held in Yokohama, Kawasaki city in Japan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Caz<\/strong>: I\u2019m Caz Walton, former Paralympian, and I have a foot in both camps really! I was immensely lucky that when I retired from competitive sport, I got a job with the British Paralympic Association, so I finished my daytime job on the Friday and started with ParalympicsGB on the Monday, and I\u2019ve been involved ever since. It\u2019s been 26 years this year! I was immensely fortunate, and I\u2019ve met some fantastic athletes, staff members, and people, and been to so many countries along the way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anneli<\/strong>: Caz is underplaying her hand slightly. She\u2019s got multiple gold medals and the experience she passes on! I mean, we had a ball in Tokyo doing our accessibility audit, but actually, the impact of people in Japan seeing Caz and her showing them her gold medals from the \u201964 Tokyo games, it was amazing seeing that. Caz, how many gold medals do you have?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Caz<\/strong>: I have ten Paralympic Gold Medals. Every one was a joy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anneli<\/strong>: Amazing! And how many sports Caz?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Caz: <\/strong>Oh gosh, I don\u2019t know! I\u2019ve done a number of sports and been lucky enough to be successful in several of them. I loved athletics and wheelchair fencing in particular; different challenges and I would do it again tomorrow like a shot.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>What Caz and Anneli look for when scouting for rooms<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Anneli: <\/strong>Finding rooms actually started so far ago that actually the pandemic hasn\u2019t actually affected looking for rooms that much. I think the first recces to Japan were in 2015, when they look at which hotels we would be based at and what we would look for in a preparation camp. So by and large, our preparation camp was already sort of pencilled in in terms of area years ago. There were a lot of trips before I actually started at ParalympicsGB and then when we started really delving into the accessibility of the hotels and the bedrooms, and also the sports facilities that we used. We\u2019ve done a number of recces around that. Caz and I went on a recce to Tokyo together with some occupational therapists to look at what the accommodation would be like [and] potentially what changes we could make.<\/p>\n<p>Our partners have been amazing, we\u2019ve had bathroom modifications done for us; we\u2019ve had hotels learning about bed risers; so we do all sorts of things and it\u2019s a process that does take a number of years. For example, in the Rio cycle there were things like rehinging doors so that opened outwards. I wasn\u2019t in post in the Rio cycle, but bathroom doors that open inwards massively reduce the footprint in a bathroom, and so there were some doors that were rehung so that they opened outwards.<\/p>\n<p>We look at mattress toppers for mattresses that are way too hard, just because of the impact it can have on an athlete\u2019s sleep. We\u2019ve also done quite a lot of bathroom modifications as well, we look to move beds further apart and around the room, so that we can have that channel for people to get up and down.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Caz: <\/strong>Also, not necessarily having the beds next to each other, but in an \u201cL\u201d shape in the room, just to make sure that there\u2019s maximum amount of space. Also things like, if there\u2019s a drop down on a sink, then perhaps having that reduced or even taken away so that wheelchair users can get their knees under the sink, because otherwise it\u2019s an awful long way to try and wash. Just tweaks really, and I think we\u2019re lucky because we have such an experienced team. I mean, I would put Anneli down as a \u201cworld expert\u201d on bathrooms and bedrooms now. But I think because we have such a lot of expertise in place, it just makes such a difference because you know what you\u2019re looking for, you know what you\u2019re looking at. You can put yourself in an athlete\u2019s place and say \u201cthis needs altering and that needs altering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And the other thing is of course, that hopefully with some of the changes that have been made, we can leave a legacy in whichever city we\u2019re working in for that country\u2019s athletes or even just normal disabled people so that they have the advantage of having life slightly easier when they go to a strange room too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anneli: <\/strong>I can give you a concrete example of that, it\u2019s very bathroom specific, but one of our hotels in Japan has moved the toilet forwards 20cm for us, which doesn\u2019t sound like a lot, but it\u2019s moved it forward so far that it enables a side transfer across onto it, so it\u2019s much more accessible. And that\u2019s something that because of us staying and their increased knowledge around accessibility, it means there\u2019s a tangible legacy for people who stay there in the future. And it\u2019s just a really nice feeling.<\/p>\n<p>In the same way, one of our partners is a university, and they\u2019ve created extra accessible toilets around one of their buildings which is used by the local population as well as the students, and so they\u2019ve created extra accessible toilets for us, so the swimming pool level now has a fully accessible bathroom. There\u2019s little things like that every cycle that we do that it\u2019s so nice to think that there\u2019s a legacy of what we do.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s actually a couple of websites that I used quite heavily when I first started and in Japan it\u2019s really, really common for hotels to put their room plans on their website, which isn\u2019t often the case in the UK, but actually a diagram of where everything is, and that includes the bathrooms and the bedrooms and the placements of the bed. So there\u2019s several Japanese websites that list all of these and people can leave reviews, and likewise there\u2019s actually an app you can download and it\u2019s about the accessible routes between places. So you can plot your route as you\u2019re out and about in Tokyo and you can say where you\u2019ve had accessibility challenges. So that sort of the tech-savvy element of Japanese culture meeting the accessibility, which is really quite nice.<\/p>\n<p>In September and October 2019, our rowing team held a test camp out in Japan, and they went through what they would do in their preparation camp in 2020, as it was going to be then. On one of their days off, they wanted to go and watch one of the Rugby World Cup matches, and they were fortunate enough to get tickets. But actually, in terms of crossing the whole of Japan to get to the stadium, which was slightly outside of the city, we used this app to literally find the accessible route across the city, because every subway has little elevators and things between floors, and sometimes it took longer getting down to the subway platform than it did the subway ride, because of the nature of the elevators and things. But we actually used the app with the rowing team, and it was just brilliant, it meant that there was no problem. They knew they could get to where they wanted to go and they could log it and leave feedback if they wanted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Questions and answers<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>What do the bedrooms in the Athletes Village and Preparation Camp look like? Also, how do they balance out Japanese culture and home comforts?<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anneli: <\/strong>Good question! So, in the preparation camp, I guess our bedrooms are hotel bedrooms. So, they\u2019re quite spacious and usually twin-share, in some cases single-occupancy. They\u2019re really like any other typical hotel room, but I guess we add a few little tweaks, don\u2019t we Caz, to either make them more accessible, or more appropriate for athletes who might be getting over things like jetlag, or acclimatising to the climate in Japan, which is obviously quite a bit warmer than here in the summer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Caz: <\/strong>Yeah, and I think we\u2019ve struggled a little bit to find a number of rooms that have total accessibility, as we always do, because hotels are not set up for this. For example, we may have 30 \u2013 40 wheelchair users, which present a whole different challenge in terms of accessibility. And there\u2019s such a difference between hotels and the Olympic\/Paralympic Village, because the Paralympic Village tends to be, by comparison, quite Spartan, I guess. It\u2019s noisier and there are certainly less luxuries in it, so the transition between the two is quite a challenge too, without having that pre-knowledge, or managing expectations. But the disparity is with the Village, we\u2019re all housed pretty much in one area, so one building. Whereas with the prep camp, we could be in four, five, maybe even six different locations. And everyone may differ, from University, to hotel. I\u2019ve even stayed in atomic bomb shelters, and air force bases, as part of the accommodation. So, it\u2019s just so varied and that\u2019s what makes it interesting I think.<\/p>\n<h3>What issues did you encounter in the initial scoping of the athlete accommodation, and how were you able to overcome them?<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anneli: <\/strong>I think space is always a really big one for us and the layouts of the rooms. It\u2019s something we encounter all over the world, even in the UK. I think the space one in particular is relevant in Japan. Tokyo is a really densely populated city, and our preparation camp is outside of Tokyo, but obviously really, really large bedrooms which have turning circles that would enable somebody potentially in a wheelchair, or even athletes with a large number of kit bags. It\u2019s those kind of things that we look for. A lot of the athletes will turn up with three suitcases and they\u2019ll be moving kit around. There\u2019s access to bathrooms, space beside the bed. We have all sorts of challenges which are partly the nature of the size of our delegation. We can have up to 30 or 40 wheelchair users in our group. We sort of cover every end of the spectrum.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Caz: <\/strong>Hotels do tend to have the advantage of you\u2019re much more likely to get a single or a double room, as opposed to in an apartment where you\u2019re living. You\u2019re much more likely to have noise and light \u201cpollution\u201d in the Village. It\u2019s just so variable. I think too, you\u2019ve got the challenge of finding accessible bathrooms, preferably en-suite, to go along with the accessible bedrooms. But space is absolutely key and preferably having space around the beds as well because different athletes, whether they be mobility impaired, or have other disabilities, could prefer to get into the bed one side rather than the other. Very often you\u2019ve got beds that are sited up against a wall, which is something else that we have to look at. So, it\u2019s not just the space, it\u2019s the accessibility of the bed to the athlete and height as well. It\u2019s certainly something that varies so much from games to games that you could never give it up because you\u2019d never get bored.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anneli: <\/strong>I think the other thing is that every athlete\u2019s needs are really individual. Some athletes need space under the bed, some mobile hoists, there\u2019s space around the bed and mattress firmness as well. So I guess, it\u2019s all those combinations of factors. And we\u2019ve been really lucky, we\u2019ve worked with some fantastic partners in Japan, and we\u2019ve actually really delved into the nitty-gritty of accessibility with not only our hotels, but also the city governments and universities which are hosting us. So, we\u2019ve had partners who\u2019ve been really keen to learn and really keen to be involved in every step of the journey, even in just little things. Even little things, like it\u2019s no trouble to just email them and ask them things like \u201cis there a power socket right next to the bed\u201d that somebody might need to plug equipment in for them for overnight. \u201cWhat sort of blackout blinds\u201d, hotels are usually really good for blackout blinds and that helps with things like jetlag recovery and athletes planning their sleep schedules when they arrive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Caz: <\/strong>The type of bed can make a difference as well because, it\u2019s true to say, there\u2019s no such thing as a \u201cperfect height\u201d on a bed. It depends on the needs of the person using it, and I guess that depends just as much whether you\u2019re able-bodied or whether you\u2019re disabled, but I perhaps slightly more imperative to us. If you\u2019ve got a bed without any legs, that is sort of a divan type bed, you can\u2019t put bed heighteners underneath, which normally do fit into the legs of a bed. So if you want to raise the bed it becomes much more difficult. The height and firmness of the mattress is also important. You want the mattress to be a certain firmness, because otherwise it\u2019s quite difficult to get off because you sink into it. On the other hand, you don\u2019t want it to be too firm because if people have skin viability problems, and things like buttons in mattresses, can cause a problem. You can have an athlete that would go to a games, go to prepare, and end up the beginnings of a bedsore and not being able to compete. And it sounds quite trivial, doesn\u2019t it? But small things just make such a huge difference.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anneli: <\/strong>We\u2019ve got several teams who travel with their own mattress toppers, and lots of athletes travel with their own pillow. I think there\u2019s that element of if it\u2019s what you\u2019re used to at home, and you really have a particular pillow firmness; I know a lot of hotels offer a multitude of pillow type, but sometimes it\u2019s easier to just take your own and so we have a lot of athletes who do that sort of thing as well, to ensure that when they get there and they get off the plane, they can really just go to their room and if it\u2019s time to sleep, they can just get themselves set up.<\/p>\n<h3>Japan is famously known for its unique sleep culture, particularly the prominence of sleep pods and time to nap at work. Have you taken any of this influence on board for the athletes\u2019 bedrooms or sleeping schedules?<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anneli: <\/strong>There\u2019s been such a lot of work done by the institutes of sport here in the UK on the jetlag and acclimatisation for the Tokyo Games specifically, because of the time difference and the flights that we will get, there\u2019s been a lot of planning and testing on that. So we actually have some rooms set aside at our preparation camp for the sports for athletes who might want to have a nap midmorning after they\u2019ve come off the training field. I think a lot of the sports who are coming to the camp are also checking in the night before as it were, whilst they\u2019re on the flight, so that when they arrive, they can actually just then go straight to their room and have a night\u2019s sleep rather than waiting for that 3pm check-in. So it\u2019s kind of a little bit like having a sleep pod there, they\u2019re really getting there and having a that quick two hour nap at the most, maybe an hour, just to really start to get their body clock back on track. I think we did that when we went, didn\u2019t we? We kind of arrived and we had a bit of down-time when we got there in Tokyo. It\u2019s quite common. As I said, we do have a couple of bedrooms set aside so athletes can do that if they want to.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Caz: <\/strong>Timing of flights as well, and the time that you arrive and the time that you depart, to help to try and adjust things for you. And I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s happened this time actually, but certainly in the past, when there\u2019s a big time difference, as there is between us and Japan, some of the sports have advised their athletes to adjust their sleep times at home, so that when they get to wherever they\u2019re going it\u2019s less of an adjustment for them to settle in to the new time zone. It makes a huge difference, because the time difference between ourselves and Japan is so large that, the acclimatisation period is feasibly quite a long one, and that makes a difference to the time that you arrive in Japan before you move into the Village to start to compete.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anneli: <\/strong>We have sports that have a daylight schedule almost. So that they\u2019ll arrive in Japan, they might have their short-term nap, if they arrive in the morning, but then they\u2019ll actually schedule when they\u2019re outside during the day at very specific times, so that they can help use the light to acclimatise as well. Even down to their meeting rooms and things, so they\u2019ll ask for a meeting room and ask is it possible to have that with all the blinds down, so that that can be during our dark period to help us acclimatise. Also, there\u2019s definitely a recognition from the athletes and staff that even if you don\u2019t sleep, the rest is beneficial and just that quiet time is good. It can be quite tiring when you\u2019re walking about or pushing about the village or the pre games prep camp, you can almost accumulate unwanted steps, as it were, and everything\u2019s new and everything\u2019s really exciting because you\u2019re at the Games. So there\u2019s definitely an effort to reduce that, and when you should be resting to be resting and be quiet and if you can\u2019t get the sleep at least be in the dark in your room.<\/p>\n<h3>How do the new Tokyo bedrooms differ from the last Paralympic Games in Rio, or previous Games you\u2019ve worked in?<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Caz: <\/strong>I think with the accessible rooms, there probably isn\u2019t a tremendous amount of difference. Possibly with the standard rooms, then you\u2019re looking at maybe slightly smaller rooms in Japan than we were in Rio. I think with Tokyo, I can\u2019t remember what the percentage of population is, but certainly a large percentage of population in Japan live in and around Tokyo, so space is pretty much at a premium, and my experience is that perhaps standard rooms are slightly smaller, the accessible rooms I wouldn\u2019t say there\u2019s a tremendous difference in.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anneli: <\/strong>I guess that\u2019s something in the prep camp that we mitigated against really, by we choose our hotels specifically for their room size and it\u2019s not just the turning circle, it\u2019s the luggage and all the other stuff that you might have, and it tends to be fairly standard. So I guess we kind of actively look to reduce that change across the Games cycle, because we\u2019re always looking for something quite specific that will suit our athletes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ParalympicsGB goes to great lengths to source and modify temporary living environments for their athletes. 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