Posted on 02/07/2022 4:49:01 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
Olympians in tears over poor living conditions, lack of food at Winter Games
It’s apparently not all fun and games at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
Complaints from athletes and officials are pouring in about the alleged poor living conditions, dining options, isolating rooms, and debilitating weather conditions, according to social media posts.
German Alpine skiing coach Christian Schwaiger criticized the catering in Beijing and raised concern about limited food options to fuel the high-performing pro athletes.
“The catering is extremely questionable because really it’s not catering at all. “There are no hot meals,” Schwaiger said, via the Sun.
“There are crisps, some nuts and chocolate, and nothing else. This shows a lack of focus on high-performance sport.”
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Chicom athletes aren’t going hungry. I can guarantee that.
Yeah, cry me a fkn river you idiot. You knew or should have known what the hell you were getting in to when you went to China.
And they aren't even using real cat meat.
Drop some snowflakes into China and this is what you get 🤪
They don’t even know they’re getting the good food
Ya know, I'm coming around to thinking that's a pretty damn good idea.
Welcome to the Communist "paradise", where everyone is equal --- equally miserable.
I do have to wonder, though, if the Chinese athletes are getting better meals; and, the foreign athletes are being deprived, thereby undermining their physical condition before they compete. Thoughts like this do occur to me as I am a lifelong sceptic.
Commies are all the same no matter where they are.
Michelle O’Bummer and spartan food menus should not be used in the same paragraph.
Never tried it, but I'll take your word.
Nan Piglosi warned all hive minded ‘Murican athletes against criticizing the chinks. Could be that’s a factor. He wants to come home. Unmolested. Able to walk. Etc.
Don’t fall for ALL the anti-China propaganda .
funnier’n hell LOL
Here’s how it works:
The central committee member or members in charge are given a budget. A family member offers to buy the venue at a ‘discount’ with some money going to the party members.
Another family member offers to buy the venue from the first family member at a ‘discount’. Finally after the venue changes handd several times, someone get the final contract, now substantially less then the budgeted amount.
The final contractor has to make his money by contracting to the lowest food bidder. The low food bidders have to make money by cutting corners. In this case it looks as if the food suppliers contracted with local food stalls and restaurants for their leftover scraps which normally would either be thrown out into some alley or fed to animals.
Meanwhile, the central committee members think all is well because no one, no one is going to tell them the reality and cause the central committee members to lose face. Something which would trigger instant retaliation by the Ministry of State Security, Peoples Liberation Army or the Peoples Armed Police. Or all three. China winning many metals is just a bonus and a propaganda coup. The real story is the money.
I think that the Chinese are trying to increase the medal count by starving out the competitors. Did they try anything similar in the 2008 Summer Games?
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