FOOD!

Let’s face it….there is nothing more that  a swimmer loves best then food. Come join us as we eat in the Olympic Village Cafe. 

First and foremost is the ever important hand sanitizer stations. You can’t enter any building or room without using hand sanitizer first. 

Next stop is to drop or bags off at the baggage drop off stand as no bags are aloud into the dinning room. You guessed it more COVID safety procedures. 

From here we check the dinning hall capacity screens to figure out where the least busy dinning hall floor is. And show our credentials to be let in. 

Once inside we have to use hand sanitizer once again, put on gloves (there is always a backup at the gloves station as they are almost impossible to get on after using hand sanitizer) we then pick up our trays, silverware, and chopsticks . 

We are now off to figure out what we are going to eat. The cafe has a bread station with breads around the world, fruit and salad station, Japanese Food (rice, sushi, chicken dishes, curry, and soup) pizza station, gluten free station, and meal of the day station, 

Coke is the drink sponsor of the Olympic Games so it is them off to find a Coke product to drink with you meal. They also have coffee and expresso machines for the coaches like me and athletes like Colleen who depend on it. 

We are now off to find a place to sit. All the tables have plexiglass boxes to eat that kind of make you feel like your in prison. Plus it makes it hard to talk with anyone. 

Once everyone finishes their meal it is off to the complex trash station. There is a can for leftover food, one for leftover drinks, another for paper products, a bin for the gloves, a place for the plastic gloves, and then they take the tray from you. 

Well we are off to the pool to train before another evening of watching some great swimming!