Coco Gauff reveals why her entire team LEFT the Olympic Village for a hotel

Daily Mail ^ | 7/27/24 | Emily Selleck

[Libloather]

Coco Gauff revealed she's the only member of the American women's tennis team still staying in the Olympic Village after her teammates fled to a hotel.

The 20-year-old posted a candid TikTok video on Saturday, exposing the conditions the athletes are subjected to inside the brand new $1.6 billion facility, including 10 women sharing just two bathrooms.

The chaotic clip showed several members of Team USA doing their hair, makeup and getting dressed ahead of the first day of events at the 2024 Paris Games.

'10 girls, two bathrooms #olympicvillage,' she wrote over the post, leading many to comment on how cramped the space appeared to be.

'I would go to a hotel,' one fan wrote under the clip, to which she responded, 'all the tennis girls moved to a hotel except me. so now just 5 girls two bathrooms.'

Gauff, however, noted that she's enjoying herself inside the village, where thousands of competitors from around the world will reside for the next two weeks.

'Well it's only 5 girls now so I have the room alone. roommates are very chill. I love it,' she explained.

Another fan expressed concern about her comfort after it was revealed the athletes would be sleeping on beds made out of cardboard.

'Archery team lended me a mattress topper,' she wrote.

It comes amid outcry after Australia's Olympic Committee angered swimmers by informing them they could only stay in the village for 48 hours following their events before being required to either fly home or find their own accommodation in Paris.

Meanwhile, Aussie water polo player Tilly Kearns and her teammate Gabi Palm have publicly dragged the village's cardboard bed frames.

[Libloather]

The girls must get awfully dirty. I wonder if ze hotels are serving ze bugs yet.

[Ann Archy]

Shocked that all the hotels weren’t booked up.

[MtnClimber]

It is a prototype for a 15 minute city.

[P8riot]

No, it’s just the nature of women. In our house one woman takes up two bathrooms every morning. Can’t imagine the chaos of 10 women and only two bathrooms.

[Chickensoup]

I’m not.

[Larry Lucido]

I seem to remember 50 soldiers sharing onw large bathroom with about 8 commodes. We didn’t worry about makeup unless we needed to turn our faces green and black with those camouflage thingys.

[bgill]

Bunch of privileged whinies. We hear the same in every games. Rinse and repeat. How are all these athletes finding accommodations? Paris hotels should have been fully booked for years out so that’s telling.

In college, we had 4 girls sharing 1 bathroom. It was a rarity we ever saw each other much less had to fight over it. You’re in class most of the day, then a job, then activities, etc. so you’re not hanging in the bathroom like these gals are. They must not have to work out or meet with the coach and have no events to attend.

[FatherofFive]

Europeans don’t shower that often.

[Rummyfan]

And this:

Paris is hit by a 'power blackout', claim social media users - a day after city was battered by rain and transport system was brought to its knees by protesters

And this:

Food Situation in Olympic Village Ongoing

But how about that Opening Ceremony?!

[Track9]

‘It is a prototype for a 15 minute city.’

Increasingly worse each iteration.

[Prolixus]

“I seem to remember 50 soldiers sharing onw large bathroom with about 8 commodes. We didn’t worry about makeup unless we needed to turn our faces green and black with those camouflage thingys.”

Lol - commodes and showers with absolutely zero privacy to boot! Ladies would not tolerate those conditions.

[FamiliarFace]

Growing up we had 8 people with one toilet and one shower/bathtub combo. Not a lot of fun. No dilly-dallying in there.

[subterfuge]

As long as every athlete gets their allotment of 200 condoms I don’t think they should be complaining.

[scrabblehack]

It comes amid outcry after Australia’s Olympic Committee angered swimmers by informing them they could only stay in the village for 48 hours following their events before being required to either fly home or find their own accommodation in Paris.

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Are the athletes’ Olympic Committees charged for their stay? I’m guessing yes.

[mmichaels1970]

Bunch of privileged whinies. We hear the same in every games.

This is the Olympics. For most, this is the epitome of everything they have worked for. Countless hours of training and sacrifice to become one of the best in the world at their craft. And France puts them on “sustainable” cardboard beds?

These athletes are what the games should be about. Not about the politically-minded woke, narcissistic bureaucrats that take them for granted and warehouse them like property. France sucks. They and the IOC should be ashamed. The closing ceremonies should be one big apology to the athletes and their families.

[mewzilla]

I’m not.

There was hotel space for the same reasons ratings suck.

[mewzilla]

The athletes are happy to go along with what the games have become.

A pox on all their houses.

I haven’t watched in decades.

[mmichaels1970]

The athletes are happy to go along with what the games have become.

The 20ish year old athletes are likely too busy training at 5am, controlling their diets, giving up large portions of their social lives, spending their childhoods traveling from event to event, rehabbing injuries, to think about it. Unless an athlete personally makes things political, like takes a knee during their anthem, they get a pass from me.

[mewzilla]

Useful idiots with athletic talent are still useful idiots.

[Bernard]

Don’t the frogs realize that these are all highly-paid professional athletes who are used to the best of everything? How rude!