Brides-les-Bains, which has just 600 permanent residents, gave itself a $56 million face lift to prepare for becoming an Olympic village - and it now owes $14 million to construction companies.
This is no Olympic village.
Duque de Caxias also has an Olympic village.
He has taken the green wall - an eco-cool way to soften new shopping centres, offices and Olympic villages, including London's - and made it edible.
We are really, really hoping that the Republicans will search outside their little Olympic village for a fine dining experience.
The planned area along the cobblestone roadway resembles an Olympic village or, as some observe more cynically, cookie-cutter college housing.
Batignolles was supposed to be the olympic village for the Paris Olympic Games in 2012, but Paris lost its bid to London.
The main news media center, international broadcast center and Olympic village will also be in this area, which will make the Sydney Games the most compact in memory.
Abbey's new project was building an Olympic village for hermit crabs, and Dad really got into it.
The plan, said Jay Kriegel, one of the organizers, would also include building an Olympic village on 73 acres along the East River in Queens.