News With just nine days to go until the start of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, the first athletes to arrive in the city have begun training at a giant multi-sports complex just outside the Olympic village The Athletes' Park, 200m from the village and available exclusively to Olympic competitors and their support teams, has capacity for 2,700 athletes every day Consisting of six tent-like structures, the site is fully equipped with sporting material, physiotherapy rooms, massage tables, medical posts and canteens stocked with Brazilian fruits and isotonic drinks As more athletes arrive, Olympic Village hosts 2,400 guests from 120 countries Among the first competitors to make use of the facilities are a group of athletes from the land of the rising sun, who are traditionally early arrivers at every Olympic Games Japanese gymnastics coach Ayako Kitamura said on Tuesday (26 July) that the gymnastics equipment at the Athletes' Park was high quality On the first day of training, the air conditioning had been too cold – a common issue in Brazil – but after a few words with officials the temperature was adjusted in time for training the next day Sound-proof rooms On Tuesday, young members of the Japanese women's artistic gymnastics team were practising on the floor, vault, uneven bars and beam In total there are two spaces at the Athletes'  Park which contain all the equipment needed for women's gymnastics, isolated from each other so that the music from other countries does not interfere with the gymnasts' concentration There also two separate spaces for male gymnasts "Everything is very new and well organised," Brazilian gymnast Arthur Nory said, while training for what will be his first Olympic Games "The training area is very close (to the athletes' village) and the schedules are very well arranged " Japanese gymnasts and the Japanese media have been among the first to check out the Athletes' Park (Photos: Rio 2016) Pools, courts and mats In total, the park has capacity each day for 196 athletes to train in artistic gymnastics and 96 athletes for rhythmic gymnasts There is also an area for trampolinists, with the roof reaching 11m high to handle even the highest jumps As well as gymnastic equipment, the Athletes' Park has specialist training facilities for wrestling, judo, basketball and aquatic sports (including swimming, marathon swimming and triathlon) There are two Olympic-sized swimming pools at the site, plus special weightlifting equipment for swimmers Up to 850 Olympic swimmers will be able to train here every day, plus open-water marathon and triathlon athletes Olympic swimmers can train in warmed pools and use specialist weightlifting equipment (Photos: Rio 2016) Basketball and handball are housed in separate spaces, with four basketball and three handball courts Jasmina Jankovic, goalkeeper on the Dutch handball team, said her first impressions of the training facilities and the athletes' village were positive "Everything here is very big We are arrived on Sunday night and we haven't had time to talk with many people, but we want to see Copacabana beach We are working hard here and are very excited because this is our first Olympics But we are ready!" The Athletes' Park also includes training spaces for freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling and for judo Athletes can use screens to hide their moves from potential adversaries Wrestlers will be able to take their pick from 14 mats and 90 dummies for their training exercise For Olympic judokas, there are 16 spaces where they can practice their moves Olympian handball and basketball competitors have started training in the Athletes' Park (Photos: Rio 2016)