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Village of 3000 Tents at Swiss Festival (partially destroyed by storm)

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These images reveal a strange story out of Switzerland this past weekend, where a large gymnastics festival required a massive temporary village to be built comprised of 3,000 tents.

Wenger provided the 3-person tents, and they were arranged symmetrically in a display for show.

Wenger tents all in a row

The tents were to be used as housing for some of the tens of thousands of gymnasts who attend the Eidgenössisches Turnfest. That was until a major storm moved in, flattening tents and causing a mass evacuation from the site in Biel, Switzerland.

A storm ravaged the camp

But the fest starts up again today and runs through the weekend. Wenger put its mega-campsite back together again, and now gymnasts from around Europe can sleep.

—Stephen Regenold

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