Don't tell Usain Bolt: chicken nuggets are out at this year's Olympics,dropped in favour of Michelin-starred food and plant-based meals.
Appropriately for the country that gave us haute cuisine,the menu across France's Olympic Village has been prepared by top chefs and includes croissants,poached eggs,artichoke cream and even veal in a velouté sauce.
It's a far cry from the days of the 2008 Beijing Games,where Usain Bolt ate a reported 1,000 chicken nuggets over the 10 days of the event as he set a men's 100m world record of 9.69 seconds.
But McDonald's is no longer an Olympic sponsor no longer has such influence and fast food has been dropped in favour of nosh designed with athletes in mind - but plucky Team GB has insisted on porridge being available for its athletes on site.
Around a fifth of all meals eaten at the London 2012 games were McDonald's,which was then an Olympic sponsor - something Philipp Würz,the Olympics head of food,is keen to change.
The canteen at the Olympic Village in Paris,as seen during a preview event last month
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But Mr Würz believes the food will be so good the athletes won't miss out. And if they do get bored,an intimacy ban enacted during the Tokyo 2020 games to curtail the spread of Covid has been lifted - with 300,000 condoms distributed to athletes.
'No need to be a gold medallist to wear it,' reads the packaging on the contraceptives,left in the bedrooms of Olympic athletes and staff,reports People.
'We have tried to come up with a very specific plan to promote the French know-how,the savoir faire of the French cuisine,which of course,has a reputation all over the planet,' he said.
'Once the competition is over,they can also just let it go and fully profit on what everything France offers best.'
Team GB is sending over 300 athletes to Paris for the Olympic Games - 155 men and 172 women.
They include 18 Olympians from London 2012,and 16-year-old Sky Brown,who became Britain's youngest ever medalist after winning bronze in skateboarding in Tokyo.
The event kicks off with the opening ceremony on July 26,before the games themselves get underway on July 27.
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