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Post by onlyMark on Jul 31, 2024 7:12:48 GMT
The British team needs its own food. Is that exclusively just the British team then? You make it sound like it is. No other countries? China? Korea? USA? Ireland? Kenya? Australia? Jamaica? Japan?........... Culturally the British don't eat raw meat, you know that. Other countries do and are quite happy with it. Many other countries also don't. Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada, Ireland, Greece, Australia, US, Denmark, Italy, Finland......... bringing their own aircons so the athletes get a good night's sleep? Wimps no doubt.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 31, 2024 14:13:29 GMT
It looks as though it's buffet style, with a variety of food offered so that the dreaded steak tartare (surely what is meant by "raw meat") could easily be avoided.
Anyway, I thought some athletes deliberately ate raw meat and raw eggs.
Further, I can't imagine what could be served that would cater to all the tastes of such a varied group of countries.
That video does not seem to come from a mainstream, journalistically unbiased source.
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Post by tod2 on Jul 31, 2024 14:17:28 GMT
The athletes have never had it so good. They may not be used to the way some of it is prepared but I'm pretty sure most of them are not very hungry as nerves take over before a contest. I like my meat cooked Medium/Rare but not totally uncooked except when it comes to Biltong. That is raw meat simply coated in herbs and spices then preserved with a coating of salt and vinegar. So why am I such a wimp when it comes to eating Steak Tartare? I cant seem to get it near my mouth.....which boils down to what one is used to.
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Post by htmb on Jul 31, 2024 15:40:09 GMT
I saw a video of the exterior of the buildings in the village. The Canadian presenter also went inside the food hall. She wasn’t allowed further than just inside the entrance, but from what I could see, it looked like a giant food court with a variety of food options spread throughout the huge building. There were also some food trucks outside the food hall. It appeared to me the athletes would have a plethora of different food choices.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 31, 2024 15:55:08 GMT
But it'll never be as good as what Mum makes. The giant 24/7 food hall is in the Europa Corp film studios building: anyportinastorm.proboards.com/thread/6102/film-studios-saint-denis-kerouac2. When you have a 24/7 buffet, I don't understand how anybody can claim to be going hungry. However I do know one thing that probably upset a lot of these kids. There are no fried foods for health reasons. No fried chicken, no chips or fries. Unthinkable at this age. However, there is nothing stopping them from going to KFC, McDonald's and Burger King just a few blocks away. But, hey, they have to pay there, and that shatters the charm.
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Post by htmb on Jul 31, 2024 16:07:00 GMT
In the meantime, here were are being presented with videos of Ina Garten showing the Today Show hosts around her favorite places to visit in Paris. So far, all I’ve seen have been in the high end areas of the 6th and 7th Arrondissements. A special little picnic she took them on was in the square by Bon Marché. You know, the kind of experiences all Parisians have every day.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 31, 2024 16:30:59 GMT
Most of the athletes don't eat fast food whilst training and competing. I was absolutely thrilled to watch the men's 4 x 200m freestyle swimming relay final last night...and yesterday afternoon the women's gymnastics was superb..the US team deserved their medal! Caught some freestyle ?bmx arobatic cycling finals this afternoon..the French chap was very good but his first run was catastrophic (otherwise I'm sure that he would have won). Half watched the women's shooting thingy..not my cup of tea, turned off the boxing. So I've watched more sport these past couple of days than I have for the past 10 years
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 31, 2024 17:02:58 GMT
It's been a long, long time since Ina did Paris on $5 a day.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 31, 2024 17:06:15 GMT
Most of the athletes don't eat fast food whilst training and competing. Tell the American teams that since so many of them are having pizzas delivered to the Olympic village to replace the unacceptable healthy French food.
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Post by htmb on Jul 31, 2024 19:46:49 GMT
Bixa, that’s for sure!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 31, 2024 20:17:18 GMT
Perhaps the pizzas are for the trainers Kerouac. I'm sure that the food prepared for the athletes is top notch, but once their events are behind them I expect that they fancy a blow out.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 31, 2024 22:50:18 GMT
I am catching bits of the Olympics every day. The opening ceremonies were on while I was visiting my sister in Madison Wisconsin, so we caught a bit of the opening barge procession while dining at the Plaza Tavern just off State Street (where I met Mr. Kimby, actually, set up by my roommate), and more (the lighting of the cauldron) whilst walking through Der Rathskeller at the student union licking our Babcock ice cream cones. My sister and her husband are big sports fans so we switched between Olympics and Milwaukee Brewers baseball games. Once I returned home, with no cable TV, we get the Today Show on the host network NBC, and prime time coverage after supper. The gymnasts are fantastic, though I’m pretty sure there are hundreds more of them in the competition than the Americans who dominate our coverage.
A female swimmer from Missoula, Katherine Berkoff, won Bronze in the 100m backstroke. Her dad was also a medalist in the 1988 and 1992 Olympics.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 2, 2024 18:21:16 GMT
It is confirmed that golf is the sport that interests Olympic fans the least. A multitude of tickets remain available for all of the golfing events, even at the last minute.
Golf was one of the first Olympic sports but was already dropped in 1908. It returned in 2016 but it was clearly a mistake. Nobody is interested.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 3, 2024 12:24:32 GMT
The road cycling race will pass in front of my building in a couple of hours. They cycle a total of 273k all through the suburbs, but to make sure they are really tired at the end, they have to go up to Montmartre and down again before ending at Trocadéro.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 3, 2024 15:39:35 GMT
I have often thought that cycling through cities and neighborhoods would be harder on cyclists than through countryside.
Are you leaning out the window watching as I type this?
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 3, 2024 17:19:31 GMT
No, it's finshed now and they are removing the barricades. Right in front of my window there is a cobblestone (sett) speed bump and the service vans seemed to have more trouble on it than the cyclists.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 5, 2024 17:34:42 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 5, 2024 17:41:46 GMT
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Post by mich64 on Aug 5, 2024 22:21:34 GMT
What an amazing view you had Kerouac! Quite envious actually. I do not imagine many of us have had the opportunity to watch a live Olympic event even it was just a small portion of the race, quite exciting actually.
We have been watching coverage most evenings. We try hard not to look at social media during the daytime, so we do not know the results.
I absolutely love watching gymnastics (a competitive gymnast in my youth) and follow Canadian, U.S. and international meets throughout the year so I know most of the gymnasts when watching the Olympics. I am fortunate to get the Canadian and the U.S. television broadcasts so I get to see most of the gymnasts from a variety of countries. While I am a huge fan of Ellie Black, I am also very impressed with Simone Biles, as a gymnast and as a person. I think she is a terrific ambassador for the sport and is responsible for many positive changes, in the U.S. and internationally.
We also watched swimming, diving and now the track and field this week.
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Post by tod2 on Aug 6, 2024 8:11:40 GMT
Oh your photos are so exciting Kerouac! How lucky your abode is where things happen.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 6, 2024 15:41:57 GMT
Sunday morning I dragged myself to the Parc de la Villette, temporarily called Parc des Nations because besides Club France, about 15 other nations have set up their fan zones and events here. Many countries use their cultural centre in Paris or some other rental space for their fan zone, but some countries have chosen to come here for two main reasons -- 1) the spaces was cheap to rent for the poorer countries (Ukraine, Mongolia) and 2) some of them wanted a much bigger space than they could have found in central Paris(Netherlands, India).
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 6, 2024 15:47:28 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 6, 2024 17:47:47 GMT
This was te entrance to Casa Brasil 10 minutes before it opened. One of the best things about the Parc de la Villette is the huge old trees. I peered over the Colombian fence. They had not opened yet either. I don't know how Colombia has been doing, but they went all out for their fan zone. Mexico slipped into one of the permanent buildings. I took the tram to Porte de la Chapelle to get home and had one of my questions answered when I saw the new Porte de la Chapelle Arena. Adidas is paying 2 million euros a year for naming rights but can't use them during the Olympics. Therefore...
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 6, 2024 18:28:11 GMT
Wow ~ I'm really happy that you got that drone's eye view of the race from the comfort of your own home. Also grateful that you're sharing all of this with us.
There is something thrilling about a Parc des Nations. Did you ever get inside one of the houses?
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 6, 2024 19:04:34 GMT
I'm hoping to do so on a non-incandescent week day.
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 6, 2024 19:31:04 GMT
I was amused to see that the Dutch 3 man cycling team were called Roy, Harry and Jeffrie.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 6, 2024 19:57:50 GMT
I'm curious to know what is the Safe Zone supposed to be? For those overwhelmed, discombobulated.........? Like a meeting point if there was a fire or something? Safe from what? And how is it safe, how is it kept safe.... I have, as it is said, questions.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 6, 2024 19:59:22 GMT
I was amused to see that the Dutch 3 man cycling team were called Roy, Harry and Jeffrie. Roy Hudd, Harry Secombe and Jeffrie Bubbles Bonbon?
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Post by patricklondon on Aug 6, 2024 20:23:53 GMT
I was amused to see that the Dutch 3 man cycling team were called Roy, Harry and Jeffrie. Roy Hudd, Harry Secombe and Jeffrie Bubbles Bonbon? Even more amusing if they'd been Wilson, Keppel and Betty.
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Post by fumobici on Aug 6, 2024 21:14:50 GMT
Lots to see here, thanks. Love the new signage at Le Zénith, better than the airplane.
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