The surprising Aussie snack feeding hundreds of athletes at Paris Olympics

Because even Olympians need their comfort food fix.

Isabella Garrido

2 min read

August 7, 2024 - 10:05AM

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What do you do when you’ve got over 400 hungry Aussie athletes staying in the Olympic Village? You supply them with 2,400 pies, of course.

Take a peek inside the pantry in the Australian section of the Olympic Village and you’ll find mile-high stacks of meat pies supplied by Four’N’Twenty, dubbed the “Official Pie of Team Australia” .

Aussie pies: the ultimate Olympic treat

It’s safe to assume that, going off the sheer quantity of the volume of pies consumed, meat pies are a hit with Aussie athletes.

A spokesperson for the Olympics confirmed this, saying you can find the athletes chowing down on them as a post competition celebratory snack, or just as an all-round anyday, any time staple.

Sergei Evglevski, an Olympic Shooter competing in the Paris Olympics, has documented his prep for the Olympics via social media, and of course, a pie was involved.

“Training plus pie equals performance,” he said.

@sergei.evglevski
@Four’N Twenty @Australian Olympic Team surely im the one that started this
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BRB, going to try eating a meat pie before my next workout.

What do Olympians eat for breakfast?

Move over croissants, Aussie athletes aren’t seeking out a traditional French breakfast. Instead, they’re eating cereal sent over from Australia. Exactly 1.4 tonnes of it.

Although we know the hefty weight of cereal that’s been exported, our Olympic food spies didn’t manage to find out exactly what type of cereal is a hit in the village. Weet-Bix and Nutri-Grain? Surely. But we reckon there might be a few athletes who can’t go without a bowl of Coco Pops in the morning.

Aside from meat pies, Olympians need other sources of fuel, of course – and we’ve been told that the pantry is well stocked.