As many expected, Olympic athletes are escaping the Olympic Village built by climate cultists in favor of nice hotels, as they have grown frustrated with vegan meals, cardboard beds, no air conditioning, cramped quarters and lengthy commutes.
Paris officials built and designed the Olympic Village to appease the climate cult, which ultimately led the world’s greatest athletes to be deprived of basic necessities ahead of one of the most important competitions of their lives. While these athletes need a protein-heavy meal ahead of the competition, they have been fed vegan meals that do not contain the necessary proteins that meat does. They have also been forced to share two bathrooms between ten competitors, and have been deprived of air conditioning.
The Olympic Village being called trash. pic.twitter.com/rv1xmFBq4T
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In response to these issues, several teams have begun planning to move to hotels. In a TikTok post over the weekend, Team USA tennis star Coco Gauff revealed that her entire team had already moved into a hotel. In the video, Gauff showed the cramped quarters that her teammates had been placed in.
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Paris officials reportedly created the $1.6 billion facility for the world’s best athletes with an “eco-friendly” mission, which apparently meant cramped quarters, no air conditioning and lack of meat in meals.
Many commentators have argued that this terrible plan is the reason for poor performances from athletes, especially those from poorer countries who could not afford to bring their own air conditioners like Team USA and several other western nations did.
Retired Australian swimmer James Magnussen slammed Paris officials for pushing vegan diets on athletes, blaming them for Ariarne Titmus, the reigning champion of the women’s 200-meter and 400-meter freestyle, failing to accomplish her goal of setting a world record over the weekend.
“The lack of world records boils down to this whole eco-friendly, carbon footprint, vegan-first mentality rather than high performance,” he said, referencing the Australian swimmer’s performance in the competition.
“They had a charter that said 60 percent of food in the village had to be vegan friendly and the day before the opening ceremony they ran out of meat and dairy options in the village because they hadn’t anticipated so many athletes would be choosing the meat and dairy options over the vegan friendly ones,” Magnussen explained.
“The caterer had to rejig their numbers and bring in more of those products because surprise, surprise — world class athletes don’t have vegan diets… let me tell you, Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps, Roger Federer — none of those guys are on a vegan diet,” he added.
In a Sunday interview with the Daily Mail, Titmus also blamed the abysmal conditions in the Olympic Village for not achieving a world record, though she did take home the gold medal.
“It probably wasn’t the time I thought I was capable of, but living in the Olympic Village makes it hard to perform,” she told the outlet.
“It’s definitely not made for high performance, so it’s about who can really keep it together in the mind,” Titmus added.
Many Olympic athletes planned ahead to prepare for the terrible conditions, with U.S. gymnast Frederick Richard shipping his own mattress to the Olympic Village because he refused to sleep on cardboard.
Olympic athletes train 10 hours a day. They measure every calorie and get the exact same amount of REM sleep each night.
They do it for a decade and will arrive to the Paris 2024 Olympic Village to sleep on these cardboard mattresses that look like they were bought on Temu. pic.twitter.com/FiZmBS96NG
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“Everyone’s complaining about beds and stuff,” he said. “I ordered my bed already, shipped it here. I had a comfy bed from the start.”
Athletes have also been forced to take public transportation on the long commutes to the competition, leading many to already be irritated and exhausted by the time they get to the stadium.
In response to the long commute, six South Korean swimmers moved to a hotel to avoid the bus, according to Korea Swimming Federation (KSF) president Chong Chang-hoon.
“We just want to make sure they will be at least a bit more comfortable,” Chong said, revealing that the athletes on his men’s 4×200-meter freestyle relay team are now staying in a hotel that is just a five-minute walk from the La Defense Arena.
Reports indicate that many other teams are planning to transfer their athletes from the Olympic Village to hotels in the coming days.
