It looks like the Olympic Village won’t be winning any gold medals for its food.
Sodexo Live!, the official food provider of this year’s Paris Games, is serving 40,000 meals a day to hungry athletes, but not all competitors are impressed by the offerings.
Now that the athletes have been eating food for about a week, they are starting to voice their opinions
After the U.S. women’s gymnastics team’s big win on Tuesday, a reporter asked them if they were enjoying French food — and the five women glanced at each other hesitantly before Biles spoke with a diplomatic approach.
“Okay, here’s the thing. I don’t think we’re eating proper French cuisine in the Village like you guys can because you’re outside the Village,” she said during a press conference. “For the athletes, it’s a little bit healthier.”
Hezly Rivera, the youngest of the team at 16, exclaimed, “I don’t think it’s very good, at least what we have in the dining hall. I definitely think French food is good, but what we’re eating there, I don’t think is the best. But it gets the job done.”
“I thought the pizza was good,” Biles added, trying to cover the comment.
Meanwhile, American rugby star Ilona Maher, who has gone viral for her TikToks and received support from star athletes like Jason Kelce, shared in a video with 3 million views that “there are some misconceptions about what athletes eat.” .
“We eat a lot of carbs,” she said, pointing to her tray of bread, a croissant, a pretzel and a few slices of cheese. “Refuel, don’t starve.”
While Maher didn’t comment on the food, that hasn’t stopped others from touching on the cuisine on offer.
Raven “Hulk†Sanders, a star on the US track and field team, captioned her video in the dining hall with the words, “It was a struggle,” and used a TikTok sound saying, “You let me down.”
Erik Shoji, an American volleyball player, shared videos of a recent breakfast he ate and gave various comments about the food.
For breakfast, Shoji had eggs, rice, sausage, fruit and the “main event”: a croissant and a slice of Matcha cake. He said the eggs were “better than average” and that the rice and sausage tasted like “what you’d expect it to taste like”, but it was good “for breakfast”.
The croissant was too soft for his liking and “didn’t crunch at all” but tasted “very good”, while the Matcha cake was “not bad”. His favorite part, however, seemed to be the fruit, which he described as fresh.
For Shoji’s post-victory food blog, he had a post-midnight dinner that included pasta with pesto sauce, broccoli, a piece of chicken, and grilled tofu.
“I feel like pesto is always good and the noodles really aren’t that overdone, so that’s good,” he said, really selling it. As for the chicken, “it also tastes like you would expect. Not terrible, not great.”
Meanwhile, Lee Kiefer, who won gold in the women’s individual noodle fencing, posted a video of one of her “Asian dinners” before her big win, which included sticky rice, chicken tikka, curry beef and vegetables.
“Back to Asia,” she said in the video with 2 million views.
Kiefer rated the sticky rice 2 stars, the chicken tikka 5 stars, the curry meat 5 stars, the leek 3 stars and the cauliflower 3 stars.
At the end of the video, she rated the chocolate muffin for dessert an impressive 5 stars – making her the only Olympic athlete to rate muffins highly.
Norwegian swimmer Henrik Christiansen has declared himself the “Olympic Muffin Man” because of his love of muffins in the Olympic Village.
Christiansen has dedicated eight TikTok videos to his favorite charity – and hinted there are more to come.
It started with an initial video in which he reviewed some of the meals he’s eaten at the Olympics, giving “picky muffins” an 11 out of 10.
Later that day, Christiansen posted another video about the muffins, and people in the comments joked that they felt like they were “just witnessing something private.”
He has continued to post more and more muffin videos, including one where he watches the sunset with one of the items, one where he hides a muffin in his drawer, and one where his teammate plays along saying that ” it’s just here for the muffins.” “
It seems it’s only a matter of time before more Olympians trade their snacks for muffins.
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