Food issues plaguing athletes at the Paris 2024 Olympics

According to sources on the ground, food at the Olympic Village has not lived up to the standards befitting international champions — let alone anyone.

PARIS, FRANCE - JULY 22: IOC President Thomas Bach tries food from a salad bar while touring the Olympic Village ahead of the start of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on July 22, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by David Goldman - Pool/Getty Images)

The Olympics’ opening ceremony hasn’t even begun yet, but one serious issue has already emerged surrounding the Games.

According to The Times of London, food at the Olympic Village has not lived up to the standards befitting international champions — let alone anyone.

British Olympic Association chief executive Andy Anson told the outlet there have been insufficient quantities of chicken, eggs and some carbohydrates, while some meat has been served raw.

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“They have got to improve it over the next couple of days dramatically,” Anson said.

Anson also noted that the Brits had to send another team chef to France due to increased interest in their athletes eating in their performance lodge in Cichy, as opposed to the mainstream Village in Paris.

Sodexo Live, the provider of food from the 2024 Games, acknowledged its shortcomings thus far but vowed that improvement was coming.

The Olympics’ opening ceremony hasn’t even begun yet, but one serious issue has already emerged surrounding the Games.

A company spokesman told the Times of London it “takes very seriously” such complaints and that the caterer is “working to increase our supplies to the restaurants in the athletes’ village.”

The representative also noted that “volumes have therefore been increased” for top lean items like grilled meats and eggs.

As to why Sodexo Live’s food distribution hasn’t earned even a bronze medal to this point, one athlete seemed to chalk it up to being more environmentally conscious.

“They are saying the Games are more sustainable and there is way more plant-based food but sometimes if you go at peak times it’s challenging to even get a piece of chicken,” an anonymous British athlete said.

Food at the Olympic Village has not lived up to the standards befitting international champions — let alone anyone.

Supplies are reportedly running low.

Other major controversies have already abounded from Paris, which isn’t proving to have much love in the air in the early going.

The headliner has been the removal of the Canadian women’s soccer team’s head coach in the aftermath of the team spying on a New Zealand practice.

Beyond that, concerns linger about the cleanliness of the Seine River for longer-distance swimming competitions, while some prominent American swimmers have openly doubted whether all athletes in their field will have been properly assessed for performance-enhancing drugs.

With action having started Wednesday and the opening ceremony set to begin from the Seine at 1:30pm. ET on Friday, it seems Olympic organisers already have their hands quite full.

This article originally appeared in the New York Post and was reproduced with permission