For the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris may develop a menu with a priority of vegetarian dishes. The information was disseminated by Reuters.
The products will be exclusively French-made, and will be supplied by the French supermarket Carrefour. The catering company Sodexo will take care of food preparation.
According to the source, a balanced vegetarian menu will be included in all catering facilities. Fans will be offered about 60% vegetarian dishes. “The innovation has sparked mixed opinions in the sports community.
“It looks rather strange,” said sports journalist and writer Konstantin Osipov. “At the Olympics, everyone lives in one village, not in different hotels like at other competitions, so they eat in the same place. Of course, different menus with a national bias are always provided at the Olympics, but I have not heard that such a policy should be common,” the journalist told RuNews24.
According to the expert, such decisions should be made at the level of the Olympic Committee, which then delegates this right to one country, or more precisely, one city.
“I myself worked at the Olympic Congress and have relevant experience. Although, given the realities of the last decades, I want to say: the Olympics will never be the same again. People used to compete there, but now - interests,” summarized Konstantin Osipov.