The Paris Olympics have been controversial since their opening. The opening ceremony provoked public anger, terrorist attacks, rioters and thieves were rampant, the venue equipment was not perfect, the bus was stuffy like a mobile sauna, and the Olympic Village was not air-conditioned...
In view of the above aspects, the Japanese media rated it as "the worst Olympic Games in history".
Recently, athletes from many countries have complained one after another that they can't eat enough at all in the Paris Olympic Village, not only the food is unpalatable, but even eating a piece of chicken has to be robbed! It's loveless.
"Why is it so difficult to eat meat!"
Germany men's hockey player Christopher ·Ruhr complained to the media that the food in the Paris Olympic Village was so unpalatable! There are few types of meals! The quality of the food is very bad!
He added that what was even more unacceptable was the poor management of the Olympic restaurant. There will be a huge queue at every meal, and the scene will be chaotic. If you don't go to the queue early, you won't even be able to grab a piece of chicken.
"I've never eaten anything so bad!"
Even United Kingdom athletes, who have never pursued much food, have recently been angrily complaining every day: "Paris food is too bad!" France food is unpalatable! ”
Some United Kingdom athletes also said that their meals were filled with undercooked raw meat!
"I never thought you could eat anything worse in France than United Kingdom!"
What's more, the athletes' restaurant at the Paris Olympics was worried about fire hazards, so its makeshift kitchen was not allowed to cook oil pans, and could not provide fried items such as french fries and chicken nuggets, so they had to use lentil dishes instead.
Unable to eat fish and chips, the "national dish" of United Kingdom, the fun of United Kingdom people is naturally greatly reduced, and homesickness arises.
So the United Kingdom immediately sent authentic United Kingdom chefs to Paris to ensure the food of its athletes. They quickly rented a cooking school near the Olympic Village to open a small stove as a United Kingdom canteen. Many United Kingdom athletes eat lunch here every day and pack a portion for dinner.
Athletes from many countries also complained about the Paris Olympic Organizing Committee for "fraud", and they had been promoting how delicious the Games were every day, which made people, especially United Kingdom, full of expectations!
Paris is a well-known gastronomic capital, and France cuisine is widely recognized. The Paris Olympic Games have been promoting the Olympic cuisine with great fanfare since about a year ago, saying that they will provide athletes with "meals that combine environmental concepts and French cuisine", and specially invited five Michelin-starred chefs to serve as food consultants for the restaurants in the Olympic Village, so the menu of the Olympic Village is carefully designed by France chefs.
In line with the Olympic theme of "low-carbon, environmental protection and sustainable development", the Paris Olympic Games decided to carry out low-carbon to the end. With an average carbon footprint of 3.5 million tonnes for the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympic Games, the company aims to reduce it by 50% to less than 1.75 million tonnes in this Olympic Games.
As a result, not only has air conditioning not been installed in the Olympic Village, but the use of air conditioning has been strictly restricted in the bus parks to major venues.
Even in the meals, we must adhere to the low carbon to the end! With the theme of localization, vegetarianism and environmental protection, the Paris Olympic Games will greatly reduce the proportion of meat, thereby increasing the proportion of vegetarian food in athletes' meals, and adding more than twice the amount of plant-based foods on the original basis.
According to official data, 80% of the ingredients are local to France. The menu is 60% vegetable, 30% of which is organic. The goal is to reduce the "carbon footprint" of each meal by half on average.
The canteen in the Olympic Village in Paris, which opened on July 12, has 6 different dining areas, and only 3 dining areas are currently open, namely "World Cuisine", "Halal" and "Asian Cuisine", which are available 24 hours a day and serve 40,000 meals a day. There are more than 500 different types of meals, and more than 50 different hot dishes are served every day.
(Olympic Village menu · main food series announced by the Paris Olympic Organizing Committee)
The chef team has 200 people, the cold dining room has 800 square meters, and the main dining room has 3,500 seats.
However, the truth is cruel. Athletes from many countries complained that the meals were unpalatable, and not only that, but media reporters also became "unlucky".
After eating the first "France meal" (white man's meal) at the Olympic News Center, the Jinguan News reporter said that "ordinary people can't control it."
The reporter said that the salad had no taste, sighed while eating, and there was nothing to love during the whole process.
The meal also cost the reporter 30 euros.
The Paris Olympics are about treating everyone who wants to eat well equally.
Volunteers also complained that the food was too unpalatable.
(Source: Xiaohongshu)
On a domestic social platform, a volunteer of the Paris Olympics said that except for a few sausages, the others are vegetarian dishes, and the vegetarian dishes are very difficult to eat, either like sour turf, or bitter, or completely tasteless.
The volunteer bluntly said that "every day I am so hungry that I want to catch people on the spot".
Unpalatable is not the biggest problem, the most terrible thing is the serious shortage of meat, eggs and milk and other ingredients.
It is reported that nearly 40,000 meals are consumed every day in the Olympic Village, the most popular of which are eggs and meat.
(The same meal for Paris Olympians Source: CCTV News)
However, some United Kingdom athletes revealed that the supply of eggs, chicken, carbs and other food in the Olympic Village is completely insufficient.
As athletes from all over the world move into the Olympic Village, the pressure on the catering supply for the Paris Olympics is increasing, and even the Olympic canteen is unable to provide enough meals to the athletes in a timely manner.
According to Japanese media reports, breakfast was insufficient on the evening of July 23 and 24 before the opening of the Olympic Games, and those who went a little late had no food to eat.
The food at the Paris Olympics was poor and not enough to eat, so many countries came up with their own tricks.
(Source: CCTV News)
In addition to bringing its own chef like the United Kingdom, Korea not only provides lunch and dinner lunches, but also directly airlifts kimchi to relieve the homesickness of Korea athletes.
For China, which "takes food as the sky", it has long been fully prepared to deal with all this.
According to the media, the Chinese national team also brings its own team of professional chefs to ensure the diet of the athletes.
The team consists of 24 Sichuan chefs, who provided Chinese athletes with state-level Sichuan dishes during the Olympic Games, and even the tableware was blue and white porcelain dishes.
"Japan House" expressed its willingness to lend a helping hand to the Japanese players, and they specially invited Ryushiro Tejima, a chef who won one Michelin star in Paris, to sit in the field to solve the "hunger crisis" of Japan athletes.
Located at the Japan Culture Center in Paris, near the Eiffel Tower, the House of Japan serves Japanese cuisine to Japan athletes and their associates during the Olympic Games.
At present, no Japan athletes have publicly complained about the poor food at the Paris Olympics.
Japan gymnast Hang Tanigawa shared the Olympic meal on July 21.
Everyone has meat and staples on their plate, kebabs, shrimp, pizza, and a lot of vegetables, and it looks okay.
The head coach of the Japan men's gymnastics team, Mizutori Shouji, said that it was a luxury to be able to eat baguettes in the Olympic Village.
He wrote: "Eating freshly baked baguettes in the Olympic Village can be quite a luxurious breakfast! ”
Some relevant staff of the Japan national team said that in fact, the food for the Paris Olympics was not as bad as everyone said, but the amount was really not enough.
"The food in Paris is definitely not bad, but delicious. However, it feels like the amount of food provided is less than that provided at the Tokyo Olympics. ”
People are iron, and rice is steel. Diet can help athletes replenish nutrition and relieve stress, and during the Olympic Games, food has a direct impact on the athletes' performance on the field.
The Paris Olympics provided a lot of vegetarian dishes, which did allow athletes to consume a lot of plant protein, but animal protein was still extremely lacking.
Therefore, Japan netizens bluntly said that such a reversal of the cart does not work.
"In the name of low-carbon environmental protection, in order to reduce food waste as much as possible, it is suspected that not much food is prepared, but for athletes, energy and calories are life. Can an athlete perform well when the nutritional intake is not met? You can't even eat a single fried chicken, which is abnormal! The Olympics have just begun, is that really okay? It's important to protect the planet, but it's the Olympics, so hopefully everything is about the athletes. ”
Some Japan netizens believe that the Paris Olympics is low-carbon and environmentally friendly, which is also related to the serious food waste of the last Tokyo Olympics.
Food waste was a prominent problem at the Tokyo Olympics. During the Games, about 130,000 volunteer bento boxes were disposed of as garbage. The total value of these bento boxes is 116 million yen.
However, the Japanese media directly ignored this problem, and also used the mouth of United Kingdom athletes to trample on the France Olympic Organizing Committee without conscience, and took the opportunity to tout that the Tokyo Olympics were well eaten.
"The food supply in the Paris Olympic Village is very difficult now, the food supply is not as good as expected, and it is still better than the last Tokyo Olympics! Not only is the food good, but even the canteen management is quite good, and there will be no chaos at all. ”
But in fact, the food at the Tokyo Olympics also caused a huge controversy at that time.
First of all, France journalists complained that the things in the media center of the Tokyo Olympics were expensive and unpalatable.
The reporter said that such a meal actually costs 1,600 yen!
Then there is the Olympic Village, which provides Fukushima ingredients.
At that time, the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic Games not only used Fukushima ingredients, but also did not mark the origin of the ingredients in the main restaurant, which caused many delegations to express concern. In order to ensure the healthy diet of athletes, United States, Korea and other countries decided to open a small stove, and did not dare to touch any ingredients in the Olympic Village.
Korea also brought detectors directly, brought their own ingredients, and distributed boxed lunches to their own athletes.
In fact, at almost every Olympic Games, athletes from some countries complain that the food is unpalatable, after all, it is difficult to reconcile.
However, in recent years, it has been Korea athletes who have often complained. Whether it is the Beijing Winter Olympics or the Tokyo Olympics, Korea people can be seen everywhere, and it has become a common practice for Korean athletes to bring their own chefs and distribute pickle bento.
But like this Paris Olympics, athletes from many countries collectively complained about poor food, which is quite rare, and even United Kingdom are complaining, which shows the poor food in this Olympic Games.
In the face of a series of complaints, the France "Carrefour" group, which is responsible for providing fresh food other than eggs, said that it will consider further actions to increase the supply of ingredients, and may improve in the future.
I believe that a good night's sleep and a balanced diet are essential for all competitors to compete in the best possible condition.
If a player has to worry about food all day long, where is the energy to do well on the field?