Athletes lovin' McDonald's: Olympic Village

[shootingstar]

Well, the inside story was from a friend who is volunteering there at Olympic Athletes' Village, is that there were initially enough Olympic athletes who enjoyed the free McDonald's food enough, that one day it shut down one section of other non-McDonald's food offerings.

Other types of (healthier) food for them there, is free.
There are food weigh scales right there in the common eating areas for the athletes to weight their food and calculate, etc.

Of course, within their suites there are some basic cooking facilities.

[Blueberry]

And here I had been watching the McDonald's commercials touting how you can "eat like an athlete" and thinking that there's no way they would actually be indulging in McDonalds....

[OakLeaf]

Shootingstar, did your friend say what kind of food it actually was? I'm guessing it's not what you could buy at a McDonald's. Much like the "Huffy" track bikes of the '80s.

[shootingstar]

Friend actually was only allowed to walk through the common eating area at the Village. Not surprising, given his role as a volunteer computer tech. person.

However here's an article on a meal that one of the Olympic snowboarder competitors had at the Mcdonald's outlet, Village location (apparently 2 of them in the Village)

http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/B...574/story.html While getting off track is understandable, would think the amount of work and sacrifice by an Olympic athlete might help discipline a person abit more? We're all human, I guess.

More on McDonald's role at the 2010 Village and their justification:
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/M...270/story.html

[SadieKate]

I may be way off, but I'll make the wildazz guess that they're serving items from their international menus. It isn't all gigantic cheeseburgers. Even the US menu has salads and lowfat dressing.

[shootingstar]

While I'm not familiar with McDonald's international menus, it's pretty hard to believe that to even eat off of the international menu alot at McDonald's, would be a good thing for anyone (unless their home cooking was truly crappy). Probably alot more salt, etc. added and deep fried whatever, even if lightly deep fried.

I know, I'm a cynic.

As for the snowboarder who doesn't have a "diet" at this time, maybe he means eating by instinct....which can be easily said by many early 20's athletes and ordinary folk.

(Like him in that age bracket, I used to think I could eat alot of anything and eat way past 8:00 pm. And this was when I was alot more sedentary and had not yet returned to cycling.)