ADAM PEATY has hit out at Paris 2024 Olympics organisers after claiming athletes have found WORMS in their food.
The six-time Olympic medallist, who won silver in the men’s 100m breaststroke at this games, said athletes have been “blindsided” by the lack of food options on offer in the Olympic village.
The Team GB athlete claimed this was in part due to Paris’ attempts to meet sustainability targets, with 60 per cent of all meals served at the Games meatless and a third plant-based.
He told The i: “The narrative of sustainability has just been punished on the athletes. I want to meat, I need meat to perform and that’s what I eat at home, so why should I change?
“I like my fish and people are finding worms in the fish. It’s just not good enough.
“The standard, we’re looking at the best of the best in the world, and we’re feeding them not the best.
“I just want people to get better at their roles and jobs. And I think that’s what the athletes are the best sounding board for.”
The Team GB hero also complained about a general lack of organisation in the Olympic village canteen, saying: “The catering isn’t good enough for the level the athletes are expected to perform. We need to give the best we possibly can.
“Tokyo, the food was incredible, Rio was incredible. But this time around […] there wasn’t enough protein options, long queues, waiting 30 minutes for food because there’s no queuing system.
“These [complaints] are for people to get better. And the organising committee, so we’ll put these back to our team in full depth and detail.
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“But it’s definitely been the best Games in terms of fans engaged with it. So you’re never gonna have a perfect Games.”
A spokesperson for Paris 2024 was quoted as saying: “We are listening to the athletes and take their feedback very seriously.
Nearly 15,000 residents – around 10,500 of which are athletes – will be cramming into the Olympic village between July 26 and August 11.
To ensure the athletes feel at home, a number of provisions have been made by organisers.
One of these is the stocking of some 300,000 condoms, in theory enough for around two every day during the run of the Games.
A number of Olympic athletes have opened the door on their steamy lives behind-the-scenes when in camp, including huge sex orgies and parties.
London 2012 had claimed the title of “the raunchiest Games ever”, but the 150,000 condoms ordered paled in comparison to the 450,000 ordered for the Rio Games four years later.
Condoms have been laid on by organisers at every game since Seoul 1988, when it they were used to spread awareness of HIV and AIDS.
Even with an intimacy ban at Tokyo 2020 due to Covid-19, some 150,000 johnnies were handed out.
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“Since the opening of the Village, our partner Sodexo Live has been working proactively to adapt supplies to the growing use of the Olympic Village restaurants, as well as to the actual consumption by athletes observed over the first few days.
“As a result, the quantities of certain products have been significantly increased and additional staff have been deployed to ensure that the service runs smoothly.”
It comes as fellow swimmer, Italian Thomas Ceccon, who won 100m backstroke gold, slammed the Olympic village accomodation.
After failing to make the final of the 200m backstroke, he said: “There is no air conditioning in the village, it’s hot, the food is bad.
“Many athletes move for this reason: it’s not an alibi or excuse, it’s the reality of what perhaps not everyone knows.
“I’m disappointed that I didn’t make the final but I was too tired. It’s hard to sleep both at night and in the afternoon.
“Usually, when I’m at home, I always sleep in the afternoon: here I really struggle between the heat and the noise”.
Ceccon took to napping in the park in a protest against accommodation conditions.
There had been controversy in the lead-up to the games with athletes being given cardboard beds as part of the Games’ sustainability drive.
There was also speculation that this was part of a sex ban for athletes following on from Tokyo 2020 where athletes were given ‘sex proof beds’.
