Andrew Bolt: Global warming bullies force Olympics athletes to suffer

The Paris Olympics is more proof the global warming cult attracts people who really get off on bullying, with organisers forcing athletes to sweat, starve and sleep badly to show they care about the planet.

The Paris Olympics is more proof the global warming cult attracts people who really get off on bullying.

The Games organisers decided to make the world’s greatest athletes sweat, starve and sleep badly to show they care about the planet.

Emissions must be cut! And so Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, decreed for a start there would be no airconditioners in the athletes’ rooms, even though these Games are being held in the height of summer.

Spoken like the true Socialist Party member she is – follower of a political creed that’s so often treated people as ants.

Asked whether the athletes could at least have a portable air conditioner, Hidalgo was firm.

Non! “I have a lot of respect for the comfort of athletes, but I think a lot more about the survival of humanity,” she said, deluded enough to believe humanity would be wiped out if some athletes in Paris in 2024 turned on the aircon.

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo after swimming in the Seine to demonstrate that the river is clean enough to host the outdoor swimming events. Photo: AFP

But Hidalgo is not the only global warming bully at these Games forcing athletes to suffer for the planet. Tony Estanguet, president of the Paris Olympics, decided they also had to have their meat rations cut.

“It’s also our responsibility to educate the people who will be engaged in Paris 2024,” said Estanguet, deciding for himself that he was the guru and the athletes his helpless students.

He was going to school them: “It’s a collective duty now to change our habits and definitely to reduce our carbon footprint.”

So the order went out: 60 per cent of the athletes’ meals had to be vegan.

Meat had to be rationed, because cows are so bad for the planet, with all their emissions.

McDonald’s had to be banned, of course, even though athletes at the London Olympics ate an estimated 20 per cent of their meals at the burger chain.

IOC President Thomas Bach tries food from a salad bar while touring the Olympic Village. Picture: Getty Images

Supplies of eggs were also cut and chicken nuggets banned, even though they were the favoured food of superstar sprinter Usain Bolt at the Beijing Olympics.

What’s more, the athletes had to sleep in recyclable cardboard beds, which are hard. Never mind if they wanted a great sleep ahead of the most important competition in their lives.

No, the athletes’ preferences didn’t matter. It didn’t matter if they didn’t believe the planet faced doom, or didn’t want to be “educated”, or didn’t want to be hot.

It didn’t matter if they didn’t want to eat the tofu and lusted instead after hamburgers, or wanted more than the two lamb chops at dinner.

That’s the green movement. It’s run by people who like this excuse to be bullies, and revel in making other people live their warmist dream, by force. What’s happening in Paris is a metaphor for what’s happening to us, too, as the warmists punish us with their crazy restrictions on coal, gas and petrol cars, and – like Kamala Harris, the Democrat candidate in the US election – policies to make us eat less meat.

Cardboard beds in the athletes' village. Picture: Getty Images

But this time they picked on people who wouldn’t take it. Not when their own dreams – of gold – were on the line.

Athletes at Paris arced up about the food, the lack of aircon, the beds. South Korean athletes even complained about the lack of airconditioning on Games buses.

Former Olympics medallist James Magnussen, in Paris as a commentator, voiced the concerns of many: “The lack of world records boils down to this whole eco-friendly, carbon footprint, vegan-first mentality rather than high performance.”

The green fascists crumbled. They had to – the athletes were the real stars of this show.

And so organisers have now been forced to bring in more meat and more eggs, and order in 2500 portable airconditioners.

The food hall at the Paris Olympics. Picture: Adam Head

That’s still only one airconditioner for every three rooms, which means many athletes from countries too poor to buy their own get no relief. How typical of global warming policies that it’s the poor who suffer most.

The Australians even got extra mattress toppers, but spectators don’t have the same pull, so for them nothing changes.

At a Games venue like La Concorde, for instance, the only food they can buy is still vegetarian.

What a circus. Vegetarian in France! The home of bœuf bourguignon!

How absurd, in a country where people eat almost twice as much meat per person than the rest of the world.

But that’s the global warming elite for you. Do what they say, not what you want.

It’s been gold medal bullying in Paris. And at least the athletes aren’t copping it.

Originally published as Andrew Bolt: Global warming bullies force Olympics athletes to suffer