Swimming star slams food at Olympic Village claiming there are \u2018worms in fish\u2019 Canva \/ Jack SpisterA British silver-medallist has slammed the food service at the Paris 2024 Olympic Village for its lack of meat products and long queues. Even worse though, is his claim that another athlete told him they found worms in their fish. Although there is no photo evidence of said worms, Adam Peaty claimed that he refused to eat the food provided to athletes for fear of his health. One of the food vendors providing meals to athletes during The Games has vehemently denied these allegations. Peaty, who has gone home from Paris with a silver medal in the 100m breaststroke after contracting Covid the day after his race, has stated that the food in the Paris Olympic Village was not up to the standard he had expected. He stated that the food on offer contributed to what he has called \u201cthe worst week of his life.\u201d \u201cThe catering isn\u2019t good enough for the level the athletes are expected to perform. We need to give the best we possibly can.\u201d He told iNews. \u201cOn top of this, he alleged that several athletes he knew had found worms in their fish. \u201cI like my fish and people are finding worms in the fish. It\u2019s just not good enough. The standard, we\u2019re looking at the best of the best in the world, and we\u2019re feeding them not the best.\u201d Although there was no proof of these creepy crawlies in people\u2019s food, Team GB did send out a professional chef to Paris after complaints that there was not enough protein being served at The Games. Despite complaints from several athletes, The Paris Games organizers stuck by their food vendors, as their mission for feeding the athletes during The Olympics was to provide locally sourced, carbon-neutral food to athletes that would not cause a detrimental affect on the environment amidst the influx of people to the city. Olympic food vendor denies claims of worms in food The company in charge of feeding thousands of athletes at the Paris Olympic Village, \u2018Sodexo Live!\u2019, has spoken out against Peaty\u2019s claims. \u201c\u2018There has been zero proof of the truthfulness of this statement, which obviously raises a rather serious allegation,\u2019 the committee told TMZ Sports. The company also clarified that it never received any complaints from Team GB athletes. \u201cWe always listen to the athletes and take their feedback very seriously. Paris 2024 continues to liaise closely with nutritionists of the National Olympic Committees and is ready to make any further adjustments needed to the food service.\u201d Throughout the Olympic and Paralympic Games, it is expected that 13 million meals will be served. These aren\u2019t the only complaints coming from athletes who have stayed in the Olympic Village this year, Italian swimmer Thomas Ceccon also complained about the lack of AC and quiet at the Village, and was seen sleeping in a local Paris park. Some other athletes have had very good things to say about the food; a Norwegian athlete has been obsessing over the chocolate muffins on TikTok.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Swimming star slams food at Olympic Village claiming there are \u2018worms in fish\u2019 Canva \/ Jack SpisterA British silver-medallist has slammed the food service at the Paris 2024 Olympic Village for its lack of meat products and long queues. Even worse though, is his claim that another athlete told him they found worms in their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}