Food item that’s been banned from 2024 Paris Olympics menu

The Paris Olympics are making a concerted effort to be known as the healthy Games with one world famous chain being blocked.

The Paris Olympics will be making a concerted effort to be the healthy Games.

In a move that wouldn’t have sat well with Olympic legend Usain Bolt, athletes won’t have access to McDonald’s in 2024.

More so, no chicken nuggets will be available for athletes. Instead a soya-based nugget option will be on the menu.

The McDonald’s ban comes despite it being the only thing on Usain Bolt’s gold medal-winning menu in 2008.

Olympics legend Bolt claims he ate thousands of chicken nuggets while in China as he went on to win three gold medals.

While Bolt’s diet fuelled him to historic heights, athletes in Paris will be fed by four Michelin-starred chefs with every competing nation able to make specific requests.

Great Britain, for example, asked for porridge while Philipp Würz, head of food and beverages at the Games, told The Telegraph it was kimchi for the Koreans, sticky rice for the Chinese delegation and “skewers” for the Japanese.

Würz told The Guardian around 1,200 Michelin-starred meals will be served a day out of 40,000 overall and that 30 per cent of the menu at the Games would be plant-based.

Chicken nuggets won’t be at the Olympic Games.

The Guardian reported that some meals on offer include croissant, poached egg, artichoke cream, shavings of sheep’s cheese topped with truffle.

It comes after Würz said he read 20 per cent of athletes’ meals during the London Olympics were McDonalds.

“It’s a much healthier menu now,” he said.

“With no McDonald’s, no chicken nuggets, and more healthy food.”

That does not mean there won’t be some more traditional options, with chicken skewers, chicken fillet and salmon and margarita pizza among the most popular dishes so far.

There will also be 800 baguettes baked per day, which is the equivalent of 6km in total across the entire Olympics and Paralympics.

Bolt ate a whole lot of nuggets. (Photo by Ian Walton/Getty Images)

While the banned menu items are becoming a talking point, the Athlete Village beds have stolen the limelight ahead of the Games.

Following in the footsteps of the Tokyo Games, the Paris athlete’s village feature fully recyclable cardboard beds.

They were quickly dubbed “anti-sex” beds, but days out from the Games several athletes took to social media as they tested out the designs.

Aussie tennis star Daria Saville and Ellen Perez put the beds through their paces.

Starting with high-knee resistance bands, the worm, squat jumps, step ups, volley practice, cannonballs, even racquet smashing, the bed held up despite several disconcerting noises from the bed as they did it.

And they even tested it with sleeping — which it also performed admirably at.