Elite Athlete Centre and Hotel

Coordinates: 52°46′07″N 1°14′00″W / 52.7685624°N 1.2334555°W / 52.7685624; -1.2334555 The Elite Athlete Centre and Hotel[1] is a training base and hotel opening on the Loughborough University campus in November 2018.[2] The hotel will be run by Imago Venues,[3] the service that manages conferences and events at Loughborough University.[4]

The Hotel is part of Loughborough University's Student Village project[5] which will see 617 new student bedrooms in new halls of residence opening in October 2018 and October 2019. The project is being managed by Faithful+Gould.[6]

Facilities

The Elite Athlete Centre will have 44 bedrooms, all of which will meet accessibility standards. 20 of the bedrooms are altitude rooms, with the aim of facilitating altitude training, specifically the Live-high, train-low philosophy.[7]

Guests will have access to Loughborough University's sporting facilities,[8] including the High Performance Athletics Centre,[9] one of two UK Athletics National Performance Centres.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "Elite Athlete Centre and Hotel". The Elite Athlete Centre and Hotel. Retrieved 2017-02-01.
  2. ↑ Author (2017-10-16). "£7m Elite Athlete Centre and Hotel to join Imago Venues". Conference News - UK's leading MICE industry publication. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  3. ↑ "Midlands Conference Centres and Hotels - Leicestershire Event Venues and Meeting Rooms - Leicestershire Loughborough". Imago. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  4. ↑ "Imago Services Conference and events - Campus Living". Loughborough University website. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  5. ↑ Cox, Megan (2017-10-13). "Loughborough University student village work underway". loughborough. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
  6. ↑ Wallbank, Tom (2017-09-19). "Faithful+Gould Out of The Blocks on New Elite Athlete Centre at Loughborough University". Faithful+Gould. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
  7. ↑ J, Stray-Gundersen; BD, Levine (2018-02-01). "Live high, train low at natural altitude". Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports. 18 (Suppl 1): 21–8. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0838.2008.00829.x. PMID 18665949.
  8. ↑ "Facilities". Loughborough Sport. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  9. ↑ "Virtual Tour of the High Performance Athletics Centre". Loughborough University. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  10. ↑ Athletics, British (2009-06-26). "2012 Performance Centres". UKA Official Website. Retrieved 2018-02-01.

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