https://www.nbcnews.com/sports/olympics/breaking-paris-olympic-2024-what-is-explained-rcna145754
Posted on 07/28/2024 4:00:09 AM PDT by 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.
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Note to US athletes...
“...May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
I'm not. The Olympic Committee desperately added skateboarding and now breakdancing (yes, breakdancing is now an Olympic event) due to declining interest in the Olympics. It follows that fewer television network staff, contestants, and families would attend.
BREAKDANCING? YOU ARE JOKING.
Is it the city that's worse or just the whining?
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Who is Coco Gauff? Sounds like a tropical drink.
They already have skateboarding (non-racing), surfing, rhythmic gymnastics, artistic gymnastics, artistic swimming, BMX cycling freestyle, trampoline, and flag football among others.
They're not even trying anymore. They're grabbing whatever they can get advertisers for and just going with it.
When Kurt Angle, an actual Olympic wrestler, joined the WWE staged wrestling, it showed that there really is no future for these competitors. Sell the lip balm, cereal, mobile phone plans, automobiles, snack bars, sugar drinks, sneakers, etc. until the next Olympics rolls around and someone else takes over the role of hawking for advertisers.
They’re too young to realize that they had been gifted with more efficient physical attributes than most. They sure spent the time and effort to refine certain physical activities such that hey could complete against others of the same bent. Plenty of other people have the same discipline but don’t get all expense paid trips to foreign lands to compete at their skills.
Bottom line: so what? The games are dead. Killed by avarice , commercialism, and irrelevance. Long live the games.
Growing up we had six people sharing a kitchen sink and an outhouse.
Ah, yes! We were blessed with indoor plumbing by the time my parents had kids. They grew up with outhouses.
My worst recollection of the single toilet with 8 of us was when we had a stomach bug go around in our family. That was a difficult time. Thankfully it didn’t last more than about a week for the bunch of us.
The Brady Bunch house apparently only had one. Couldn’t imagine anything even close to a crowd that size in real life.
Mr. Brady designed a bank vault to be broken into a lot better on Hawaii Five O “The Meighan Conspiracy”.
Yeah and that red thing on the wall isn’t a bug it’s a light on the camera.
Thank you. I will continue to ignore her.
Vive la différence.
THIS LEVEL OF COMPETITION DOES NOT LIVE ON PLANTS.
That’s what the bed frame was made of not the mattress.
We did in Iraq. They were called ablution units. The showers and commodes did have doors - that was the privacy.
15-minute city for only $8,000,000,000! It should be called Graftland!
Similar situation in my house growing up. Seven people, 1 shower. If you were not expedient, Dad was pounding on the door. If you were not efficient, tough.
Hair drying was done in your bedroom.
My current home has 3 bathrooms; two for the kids, and a master bath for my husband and I with a separate shower and tub. No lines, no pounding on the door.
Oddly enough, I can still wash my hair, body, brush my teeth, and dry off in five minutes if needed. The habits of youth don’t die.
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