PARIS — Asher Hong has liked freshly baked bread in the mornings at the Olympic Village. He’s loved the fruit. And the cheeseburgers are pretty good, too, he said.
“It’s not terrible,” said Hong, an American gymnast. “It’s just not what you would expect at the Olympic Games. You’d think that they’d bring some better chefs to kind of season the food a little bit better.”
The food being served to athletes at the Paris Games has remained a popular topic through the first week of competition. It all goes back to criticism that made headlines prior to the opening ceremony.
Spanish golfer David Puig said he’d never seen anything like the eating area.
“It’s unreal, all the work that is behind the scenes to make this event happen. The restaurant itself was probably the biggest restaurant I’ve ever seen in my entire life, and it took us probably five to 10 minutes to walk from one side to the other one, and we were obviously on the farthest side. So it was quite a walk,” Puig said prior to the start of men’s golf action.
“But the Village itself, it’s great. And lots of athletes, lots of people that have been working their entire lives for a moment like this just like us. So it was very exciting and again, just very exciting to be here.”
Simone Biles was even asked about the food after the U.S. women’s gymnastics team’s gold medal victory Tuesday night. And Biles gave a thumbs down, saying it wasn’t “proper French cuisine.”
“I don’t think it’s very good,” teammate Hezly Rivera added, “at least what we’re having in the dining hall.”
Those gripes from U.S. gymnasts were tame compared to British Olympic Association chief Andy Anson. Prior to the Games, Anson told The Times of London that food in the Olympic Village was “not adequate,” with a lack of high-protein items and “raw meat being served to athletes.”
Sodexo Live, a multinational company with U.S. headquarters in Maryland, is handling the Olympic Village’s food services. It said that it initially restocked to meet demand, especially for high-demand protein foods like eggs and grilled meats.
Since then, the commotion has mostly settled, leaving gripes more about preference than portions.
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