Athletes gorging themselves on free McDonald's

[Baclava]

RIO DE JANEIRO — The afternoon was blustery, cold and drizzling, and the Samoan freestyle swimmer Brandon Schuster was outside in shorts and flip-flops, looking rather anxious because there were still 53 people in front of him to reach the door of the Olympic Village’s most popular restaurant.

“We’re so pathetic,” he said. “It’s raining, and we’re waiting in line for McDonald’s.”

You might assume that the world’s most finely tuned athletes would be eating something healthy — egg-white omelets, kale salads — as they strive to reach the pinnacle of their sporting lives. And you would be wrong.

The one constant in the Olympic Village, the collection of high-rise apartment towers where some 10,000 athletes, coaches and staff live during the Games, is that there will be a line out the door of the McDonald’s. Morning and night, in blazing sun or stiff wind, come stray bullet or whiff of sewage, the Olympians will be waiting for their fries.

Part of the issue here is that there are not a ton of alternatives. The village has a cafeteria in a big tent — plus a “casual dining” restaurant with Brazilian food — but the reviews have been well short of glowing. The crush of people in the cafeteria, trying to figure out in a babel of languages what is being served, can make for a frenzied meal.

So many people have been coming to McDonald’s that the restaurant decided this week to limit to 20 the number of items that one person could order.

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Crazy! Well at least they will burn through those calories in a hurry - ha ha

[cwydro]

1. Why are you posting this in the election 2016 forum?

Wrong place.

[Baclava]

2. Oops - you are right - i was in the wrong place - kick me - delete and I'll repost