You really expect millionaires and one billionaire to sleep on a card board box bed? 😂 I bet even if you offer them money, they wouldn’t stay in the village.
They try to be eco-friendly and sustainable for the good but people complain. Now these guys know what it's like to be the less fortunate who sleep in makeshift cardboard beds and no AC. Sustainability comes at a price, that's the reality. I at least commend them for trying a different down to earth approach.
South Korean swimmer Hwang described the bus from the athletes' village to the swimming competition venue as a 'sauna', saying: "It's cooler outside than inside the bus. It usually takes about 40 to 45 minutes from the village to the arena, but it took us more than an hour and a half (on Thursday). "The windows were taped, probably because they are worried about terrorist attacks. But something has to be done."
The Thai woman table tennis player was complaining that her bus to training facility has no AC too. Damn Thai complaining it's hot, it's really hot and I think France has gone a bit too far😂
@caljactee3-sv3eg Yep. A lot of countries like Canada, UK, U.S etc. Bought 100s of AC to bring into their rooms. This is one of the worse if not the worst olympic village and accommodation in olympic history. France basically sacrificed the basic necessities to drive home their political message which is not nice. Bring the term form over function to a whole new level.
The size of the rooms and beds are so small as well that a lot of social media post from even asian countries were mocking it. What if you tossed around in your bed and fell to the floor? lol.
You guys are funny, a lot of elite athletes don’t even have support from their own countries. These people are just rich and they can cost their own hotels
There is a reason Paris was able to get the cost below 10 billion and it shows. Read the food is being rationed, cardboard boxes to sleep on and the room is not air conditioned. More like Budget Olympics 😅
The basketball players wouldn't fit in those tiny beds. The gymnastics team got mattress toppers to make them hopefully less uncomfortable. They also have portable air conditioners in their rooms. Most of the athletes are treated like props to fill up the Olympic tv spectacle instead of as human beings performing exhausting and difficult sports that need privacy, quiet, appropriate heating and cooling and a comfortable bed for restorative sleep. It's kind of shocking how badly they treat the athletes without whom there would be no Olympics.
Huge Agree. Instead of trying to treat their guests the best they can. The French basically focused on trying to push their ideology and political messaging. I am all for green technology and minimizing pollutions etc. But not like these. And with most rich countries deciding to either move some of their athletes to hotels or buying dozens of portable ACs for their rooms, the olympic village designs basically failed in its supposed intended purpose and message. Countries with lesser budgets are now at a disadvantage because they will have to suffer the uncomfortable accommodations unlike the rich countries' athletes.
Bed are on purpose designed to be extended...what you can not do on normal bed...they are playing diva...not real sportmanship. But coming from US no body is surprised
To fit a 6 or 7 ft . plus basketball player onto a cardboard bed might be a 'little bit' challenging. I kinda understand their choice of staying at the hotel.
Im surprised that the beds aren adeciate for everybody...definitely not for basketball players. Ive seen a powerlifter using that bed as a chair, it was so tiny for his bodyframe.
Wow. When we here in Montreal hosted the Olympics in '76, we built our Olympic Village, which to this day remains as highly desirable rental units in an impressive set of modern (even by today's standards) stadium-adjacent buildings . Paris' 'accommodations' with hour+ long bus rides in un-air-conditioned buses to go swimming in the French Ganges is a bloody (smelly) joke.
My friend lives in a condo in Calgary that was part of the former Olympic village. It’s only about 500 square feet, leaks constantly when it rains because it was built so fast that nothing was done right and the wind blows right through it in winter!
@@ComtedeMonteC "Buses is Paris are air conditioned" Not the one that's moving the Olympians around. The living quarters for the Olympians are not sufficiently air conditioned, either. San Francisco has roughly the same climate as Paris did in past (Paris is warming), but all public spaces, including the EXTENSIVE, WORLD CLASS network of public transit buses and trains, are still air conditioned to 20 C. Down here in San Jose, it gets much hotter than San Francisco or Paris: we have several weeks each summer where the temperature is 40 C the entire week. You bet that most down here in Silicon Valley have an AC unit, and of course all public spaces have AC. Seattle, Washington, is on the same latitude as Paris. In the past only 30% of people had an AC unit in Seattle. Now it's 55%, because the world is getting hotter and people in Seattle are mammals, not lizards, so they need the temperature outside their bodies to be lower than that inside their bodies. The French and the Europeans in general are stupid about AC. California agrees with the EU on pretty much everything. We agree that pollution is an issue. That's why we built out a massive network of solar power, hydroelectric dams, and we still have one nuclear reactor. At this very moment, California is about 80% solar power. We also have the largest energy storage system in the world, 10.3 GWh. So we can output the same power as a nuclear reactor, for about five hours (the system is charged by renewable energy). So we have no hesitation in running AC. Our grid is clean. France's grid is also clean -- 80% nuclear and 15% hydroelectric -- so why not run AC?
An Australian tourist was raped in Paris a few days ago amidst tight security. Athletes are served half cooked meat and at times meals are scarce. The accommodation is not as needed. The list goes on. And yet not a single major French news channel has this covered. Not even one. However, if the Olympics were happening in India or in some "third world" country, they'd have it printed in kindergarten textbooks by now. Such hypocrisy! I understand that managing such a huge event is not a child's play and therefore things are bound to go wrong. And they did go wrong. So at least now stop labelling other countries as crap when such things happen there as well! If it can happen in "well developed France", it can happen anywhere else as well. If your news channels & newspapers carefully ignore them, you have no right to make a mountain of a molehill when they occur in other countries.
I remember during my professional athlete days 30 years ago, only poor delegations used to sleep at the village during panam games o smaller games, most of the them would stay in hotels including us, after all a little comfort won't hurt anybody. I've been in both and there's a huge difference and you don't pay much attention when you're tired after a full day of competition, specially when you're 17, 18 years old and nothing hurts.
@@delete9090that’s stupid af. Punishing people who worked for their success just because poor people exist. What’s next punishing all skinny people and force feeding food down their throat so they can understand how obesity feels??
@@delete9090seems a bit naive to believe the reason for the lack of accommodations are actually for sustainability reasons. It sounds good, but ultimately its not for the environment. So yea I could maybe get behind it if it was genuine effort towards that but its not. 🤷🏾♀️
@@kaciehawkins4210 "no genuine effort"? u have no idea, cooling system used chilled water, reduced energy consumption, minimized carbon footprint of the Games. improved from 20billion to 10billion. Used SAME sustainable beds in Tokyo Japan 2021, why only in France it's a problem? why are u still on this. They restocked meat, shipped different AC units, "complaints" were resolved almost immediately. Its like at a grocery store, no sauce on shelves so u ask employee and give u one immediately from the back. Ppl didn't like the resourceful efforts so they changed. Why still yapping about it? It shows why rich get richer and poor get poorer. "Superiors" calling normal things "slave-like" cuz they're out of touch. This isn't a luxury private hotel embellished in gold, this is a place to rest for the Olympics
@@delete9090 who say's people need to feel how it's like to be less fortunate? If people have the means to not feel that then they won't, that simple. Paris should offer these athletes a proper comfortable place to not let the others who are fortunate get an advantage by not staying in the village because of its poor conditions leaving the less fortunate to suffer even more because they simply can't fund a better living space during the event.
@@delete9090I disagree with that considering a lot of nba players came from less fortunate families themselves. Namely Lebron and Kevin Durant. They worked hard to be treated like kings so they should be treated as such. Whether you think it’s fair or not, or whether they contribute to society or not, the fact of the matter is that their jobs bring a lot of economic value and not everyone can do it.
@@philip7833 if 15,000+ athletes go through it, then basketball players shouldn't be excluded. Its up to them, but this is a visual- a world that tries to be better and make everything fair doesn't work because the rich wanna be treated like "Kings". Rich get richer and poor only get poorer because the fortunate refuse to comply
@@kapeecoffee over 600 tonnes fresh produce by Carrefour, catering firm Sodexo providing 45,000 meals/day to 15,000 Olympic Village athletes.🛌And it's JUST THE FRAME that's strong cardboard. Mattress and pillows are SAME hotel ones. Won't even feel the cardboard This is the problem, rich get richer and poor get poorer because when people try to make a sustainable change, the "superiors" refuse.
@@delete9090 The poor get poorer because the rich force their "eco-friendly solutions" onto them whilst living a life of absolute indulgence and decadents completely removed from their own actions and consequences. Enough with your neo-Marxist nonsense, nobody wants it!
So the Olympic athletics are literally sleeping on cardboard boxes, eating vegan meals, and no AC on the buses and in the Olympic village? You guys are nuts!
If you would have listened to the full video or did some research by yourself, you would know that cardboard beds were already used in previous Olympic game editions.
@@Pti_chapowhat about the food and the AC? Especially AC in buses, not even just rooms. I looked up the weather in Paris at 9pm (their time) and it was 82F with 72% humidity.. not having AC in that kind of weather is wild.. it would be like trying to sleep in hot rain
@@At76812 AC is not a big thing in France compared to other countries. I'm not here to give answers to everything, I'm just saying that not everything is bad and ppl complain about stuff that was similar in previous editions of the Olympics and not causing so much dramas on social media.
@@Pti_chapo I understand.. but think of it as you hosting a dinner party.. generally, you try to make it as accommodating as possible to your guests.. you don’t say “well I never do ____ or have _____ so why would I provide for my guests” They are hosting the Olympics… not having three ladies over for an afternoon book club meeting.
@@At76812 Yes but it feels like people just love bullying now. Nobody complained about the cardboard beds in other countries and AC is not in many places in France, it's a well known fact, while the majority of American private houses have it installed for example. I'm not saying everything is perfect, but plenty of these things can easily be understandable.
@@jgp7414Team USA 🇺🇸 should NOT be sleeping in those conditions. Our athletes deserve the best for all their hard work to get to the Olympics! Their sponsors should cover hotel and food accommodations!!
The bed is a mattress, the bed frame is cardboard. That's different than a cardboard bed. While the video doesn't show the mattress, several athletes have shared this on Insta. Additionally, cardboard bed frame is have been used in previous Olympics.
Finally someone saying that this is not only happening in Paris, cardboard beds and athletes staying outside of their village is not a new thing, but looking at some comments, people seem to think France is just doing it wrong, it's almost a trend on social media to critize it now. While the reality is, the atmosphere in Paris atm is super chill and joyful, you can feel people's excitement about the city and the game! Happy to got the chance to be there and experience it outside of internet ♥️
Spent over a billion on that disgusting spectacle, yet there was a shortage of food for the athletes and also they are sleeping on cardboard beds apparently to "save the environment"..nice to know where the priorities are.
They try to be eco-friendly and sustainable for the good but people complain. Now these guys know what it's like to be the less fortunate who sleep in makeshift cardboard beds and no AC. Sustainability comes at a price, that's the reality. I at least commend them for trying a different down to earth approach
@@delete9090 Down to earth my arse. They do not even have quality food for top athletes with their vegan low protein food. Top performance means top quality food, quality rest, etc. If you cannot afford to be an Olympic host just don't.
@@SuperMerlotevery athlete eats chicken, veggies and protein. Simple ingredients that give u all the nutritients. WATCH every athlete routine and u'll be surprised how basic the nutritionist requirements are. they don't need to be serving 5 star michelin star food seasoned Gordon Ramsey style.
@@delete9090 Down to earth is not making people sleep on cardboard boxes because nobody wants that. Unless your ideal is having everyone be poor and downtrodden which wouldn't surprise me with how removed from reality you are.
@@delete9090 it isn't very down to earth, considering they still used boats, fireworks, tons of lights, and other things that were not environmentally friendly, so it was just hypocritical.
They try to be eco-friendly and sustainable for the good but people complain. Now these guys know what it's like to be the less fortunate who sleep in makeshift cardboard beds and no AC. Sustainability comes at a price, that's the reality. I at least commend them for trying a different down to earth approach
@@delete9090 You're definitely joking. There are athletes who prepare for this event for 4 years and then make them sleep on cardboard beds. Furthermore, I'm not sure that in the end, this choice is the most eco-sustainable. In some cases this "trying a different down to earth approach" is just fluff
@@FabrizioPati-i6f only the frame is cardboard, genius. The mattress and pillow are normal hotel ones. U don't feel the frame at all with the mattress. Tell me, do u feel the wood frame when u sleep on ur bed? Pls have some common sense. Ur the type to hate on little sustainable efforts, turning a simple positive effort into a negative. This is why the rich get richer and poor get poorer cuz "superiors" expect "luxurious private suites" and refuse to humble down
@@delete9090 I know that only the frame is cardboard, genius, but if you think that the response to body movements is the same as a normal bed, then you are a genius squared. And as I wrote before, these operations are more of an advertising operation than anything else; I wouldn't be surprised if at the end of the competition the recycling was less than 5%, with all due respect to "good intentions". These are things we have already seen in previous Olympics
Once, we were all of us asked for money to cover extra expenses to travel to some mayor games, our country federation paid for airplane tickets only and we all athletes from my country had to sleep at the villas like sardines and share one large bathroom and our coaches would sleep in 4 start hotels with our money. Food was really bad too and we prefer to buy our breakfast and dinner. We would only eat lunch at the villa. That was 35 years ago.
@@nochaoticgoodI don't think u understand, I was talking about the rich who complain about simple things, meanwhile those from more humble countries are grateful for the given amenities. U can tell the ones that complain are lavish individuals who aren't used to normal things.
For the catering of the Olympic Village, there was an overdemand for meat and eggs on the first day, there was a readjustment the next day to meet the demand of the athletes. The same goes for transport, drivers have been added, etc. There is the testimony of athletes who said that the problems were solved and that everything was fine for the food and that the quantities were sufficient. For the beds and the maitresses in the Olympic Village, they are the same as in Tokyo.
I don't get why Summer Olympic cities insist on even building Olympic Villages at all when they almost always have university dorms available. LA, Salt Lake, and Atlanta all did this, and it worked out very well for them. Especially since those universities already have training facilities available right there on the campuses. Paris just wasted billions that they didn't need to spend.
Don't know why people complain about the cardboard beds. Cardboard could be really sturdy and you won't even know its cardboard with the mattress. In fact, harder beds are healthier for your spine
to me part of being an Athlete at the Olympics is to fully IMMERSE oneself in the Atmosphere of being with your Fellow Athletes from around the World living in the Village, eating there. I would LOVE that! as far as the weather it looks like the Highs wont go above 85F and the Evenings will be in the mid 60Fs for the next 2 weeks in Paris and mostly cloudy
Every Olympic Games it is the same thing. Hate the beds. Hate the village. Hate the food. Moving to a hotel, I am wondering if some of these more professional athletes who earn millions are just not used to roughing it. Can they just not get another mattress topper from the store.
It's not that...their bodies are in need of consistency....you can't switch up a routine like how and what you sleep on days before a physical competition...what are the France athletes sleeping on?
French athletes are in the village like everybody else and Tokyo 2020 used cardboard beds too (to recycle i guess). What made me laugh is the English bringing their own chef because the food at the cantine wasn't good enough or something like that.
this story is tired. We basically have high-level, high-pay athletes that never stay in the villages cause they are stars and somehow it is turned into a story of athletes walking out. Some athletes said the beds were uncomfortable, while others said they were okay. some delegations bought mattress toppers. There were food supply issues as well. But no people aren't walking out of the village, some athletes just happen to be travelling stars who are used to hotels and don't want to be in dorms
but the Olympics help us see who is best overall on a specific day. of course professional athletes would be included. it is just that these specific athletes have accumulated a lot of wealth over their careers.
everyone talking about the beds and making it a bigger thing than it really is, but no one is reporting about the fact that the rooms in the village have no AC, and everyone brining in their own fans in there just to be breathe. It's a sauna in there.
The big thing for me is that olimpics make billions of dollars but the athletes without whom it wouldn’t be possible get zero money zero. Some live in poverty to compete it’s the largest display of inequality on earth. And now biggest display of perversion on top of that. Olimpics is dead.
That’s not a bad idea to give athletes the option to purchase their own stays, they have the basics provided and if they dont find it hospitable then there’s always the freedom to make yourself happy & comfy 🙌🏽
From what I've heard, these venues intentionally try to keep rooms semi comfortable but not too much to avoid the spreading of STI, hence the cardboard beds.
@@Dee-jd6ym nah the cardboard is just for the beds to be recyclable after the competition. That's not going to stop the athletes from doing their thing lol
they don't need to explain, but I think they are just used to staying in hotels because they already travel often for basketball. also, they are older.
Kudos to all the athletes who showed up and stayed in the village. But when South Korea complains of the transportation and British complains of the food you know France has totally sacrificed quality and cut corners to host this event. The IOC officials are living it up in 5 star hotels eating 3 Michelin stars food while the athletes have to bring their own toilet paper? Why bother to compete? There’s other events and venues that are more accommodating to elite athletes.
No toilet paper either, nor house keeping service. If you want to take a dump like this Australian tennis star who suddenly had to rush to bathroom just to found out, there was no toilet paper and being told there was a store close by where she could get some. She bought 4 rolls and made a video out of it by ironically mentioning "happy pooping" Also food and coffee is being rationed too and food is not high in protein to favor vegan type food.
With basketball players and soccer players are different. Lebron James is 6’9” do you honestly think a cardboard bed would fit him. I imagine gymnasts, swimmers and track and field are staying the village. Basketball players hell nah!
Wow, the room shown in the thumbnail just looks absolutely pathetic for world-class athletes to stay in, I don't blame them at all for staying elsewhere
Those things are worst than a college dorm. They cannot sleep with the noise, beds are horrible, food is just cafeteria food. So all these high profile athletes make millions per year and can afford a nice room somewhere, then so be it. I would do the exact same thing.
It's Olympics but the condition is way worse than in a prison. A few carboard pieces to save the environment, while millions people still use proper beds in France? What's that for? What problem does it solve? Instead of providing the best condition for the athletes to compete at their highest form, since this is once every 4 years event, France make them suffer to live in a primitive time
Too much concern about so called " environment friendly" or gender neutral thing which I do not think important. The Paris totally forgot about athletes who really compete in Olympics.
The food is not rationned ( They give the unused food to the poor every day), same beds than Tokyo 2020 eco friendly, the village has geothermal cooling . The whole village is designed to be re used for social flats or middle class . All is on purpose to be eco friendly and re used at 100 % . A lot of buildings already existed
It is noisy and can be chaotic in the village dorms. I've read stories of athletes not able to sleep the night before their event, which definitely could hurt their performance.
...did France or the Olympics committee think this was a good idea? A bunch of cardboard beds? No wonder Embiid wanted to play with team USA. Sleeping on no damn cardboard...
First ban coco cola 😢 ... Even sports players don't drink it regularly like common people ... Blame for the one who promotes it : politicians , corporate and richers
NBA Players are a different level of Athelete they are worth $100M with a huge fan base + they are a franchise player with tons of endorsment that need to be take care ..theres no way you can ask them to sleep on a tiny room made of cardboard..
Service has been very poor in Paris!yet no one is saying anything about it ,but if this was China or in an African nations you would have herd it all over the world.
Well obviously famous athletes and stars of the sport are not going to stay there, like, almost all the tennis players who participate in the Olympics are top 100 in the world, so they're millionaires, you expect them to stay in the village? especially the top top ones like Nadal, Djokovic, Musetti etc who are likely to meet non famous athletes (like those lesser known sports ones, idk, gymnastics, shooting, divers etc) who ask for their autograph all the time? naaah
The beds and the maitresses are the same as in Tokyo ! The US basketball players have not been to the Olympic Village for years (several Olympiads). They still prefer to go to hotels !
LeBron ain't sleeping on no damn cardboard box at age 40 😂 that's for damn sure
lol true
And isn’t he like 6’9” or something like that?
Do you feel bad for your dad?
He is not a God
Damn just realized LeBron is 40
Nba players aint sleeping on cardboard😂😂😂😂.
Neva that
Not unless you're Delonte West.
@@sgg17003wtf 😂
@@sgg17003 LMAO
@@sgg17003😂
You really expect millionaires and one billionaire to sleep on a card board box bed? 😂 I bet even if you offer them money, they wouldn’t stay in the village.
Why would they when they can just pay for a wayyy nicer hotel so easily 😭💀💀
Some sports aren’t as funded so they don’t get paid much. Those people have no other option but to sleep there.
they are getting payed to play in the olympics
Besides those beds are way too small for them
They try to be eco-friendly and sustainable for the good but people complain. Now these guys know what it's like to be the less fortunate who sleep in makeshift cardboard beds and no AC. Sustainability comes at a price, that's the reality. I at least commend them for trying a different down to earth approach.
South Korean swimmer Hwang described the bus from the athletes' village to the swimming competition venue as a 'sauna', saying: "It's cooler outside than inside the bus. It usually takes about 40 to 45 minutes from the village to the arena, but it took us more than an hour and a half (on Thursday).
"The windows were taped, probably because they are worried about terrorist attacks. But something has to be done."
I love that guy. W Korean swimming. Hopefully he can sneak in a medal against the Brits and the Romanian.
The Thai woman table tennis player was complaining that her bus to training facility has no AC too. Damn Thai complaining it's hot, it's really hot and I think France has gone a bit too far😂
'Terrorist attacks'?
My brother, you're competing WITH terrorists in the Olympics in the form of Israel 🤷🏽♂️
@caljactee3-sv3eg Yep. A lot of countries like Canada, UK, U.S etc. Bought 100s of AC to bring into their rooms. This is one of the worse if not the worst olympic village and accommodation in olympic history. France basically sacrificed the basic necessities to drive home their political message which is not nice. Bring the term form over function to a whole new level.
Cardboard beds. No ac. No room service. You think the elite basketball players are gonna stay there 😂
Tbh, I agree with them. The village looks like it will cost some performance issues. No air conditioning for ELITE athletes is crazy...
The size of the rooms and beds are so small as well that a lot of social media post from even asian countries were mocking it. What if you tossed around in your bed and fell to the floor? lol.
It depends what’s the temperature. Paris isn’t a very hot city.
@@maselvalthat’s relative
they have geothermal cooling + portable AC units available
You guys are funny, a lot of elite athletes don’t even have support from their own countries. These people are just rich and they can cost their own hotels
There is a reason Paris was able to get the cost below 10 billion and it shows. Read the food is being rationed, cardboard boxes to sleep on and the room is not air conditioned. More like Budget Olympics 😅
Could done it even cheaper if you’d bid out the contracts to every company as well.
Thanks to Biden 😅
France needs money to feed and house the invaders!
,@aungaisum8654 how ?
WHAHAHA. So true
The basketball players wouldn't fit in those tiny beds. The gymnastics team got mattress toppers to make them hopefully less uncomfortable. They also have portable air conditioners in their rooms. Most of the athletes are treated like props to fill up the Olympic tv spectacle instead of as human beings performing exhausting and difficult sports that need privacy, quiet, appropriate heating and cooling and a comfortable bed for restorative sleep. It's kind of shocking how badly they treat the athletes without whom there would be no Olympics.
Huge Agree. Instead of trying to treat their guests the best they can. The French basically focused on trying to push their ideology and political messaging. I am all for green technology and minimizing pollutions etc. But not like these. And with most rich countries deciding to either move some of their athletes to hotels or buying dozens of portable ACs for their rooms, the olympic village designs basically failed in its supposed intended purpose and message. Countries with lesser budgets are now at a disadvantage because they will have to suffer the uncomfortable accommodations unlike the rich countries' athletes.
Bed are on purpose designed to be extended...what you can not do on normal bed...they are playing diva...not real sportmanship. But coming from US no body is surprised
Olympics are restricted to amateurs only aside from the 1% that are pros so it would make sense why they would cheap out on accommodation.
@@Jaykmane loooot more than 1%pro xD. Just diva pro...
Maybe the liberals have ruined the Olympics also!
They fail to understand how important sleeping for athletes
They failed to understand many things about athletes
Same for food and proteins
To fit a 6 or 7 ft . plus basketball player onto a cardboard bed might be a 'little bit' challenging. I kinda understand their choice of staying at the hotel.
You talk as if the US is the only country that has a basketball contingent.
@@araara4746 but they have the money to explore the best accommodation available
@@OAT86 I don't refute that stay at hotel is more convinient, but not because the cardboard bed too small.
Im surprised that the beds aren adeciate for everybody...definitely not for basketball players. Ive seen a powerlifter using that bed as a chair, it was so tiny for his bodyframe.
@@car9885
I agree with you.
If I wouldn't use that cardboard bed in my bedroom, then I wouldn't say it's good enough for someone else to use.
Wow. When we here in Montreal hosted the Olympics in '76, we built our Olympic Village, which to this day remains as highly desirable rental units in an impressive set of modern (even by today's standards) stadium-adjacent buildings . Paris' 'accommodations' with hour+ long bus rides in un-air-conditioned buses to go swimming in the French Ganges is a bloody (smelly) joke.
Curious to see the Montreal olympic Village. Where can i see it online?
indeed and you guys in Canada use AC as well do you not?
My friend lives in a condo in Calgary that was part of the former Olympic village. It’s only about 500 square feet, leaks constantly when it rains because it was built so fast that nothing was done right and the wind blows right through it in winter!
Buses is Paris are air conditioned so you got that wrong.
@@ComtedeMonteC
"Buses is Paris are air conditioned"
Not the one that's moving the Olympians around. The living quarters for the Olympians are not sufficiently air conditioned, either.
San Francisco has roughly the same climate as Paris did in past (Paris is warming), but all public spaces, including the EXTENSIVE, WORLD CLASS network of public transit buses and trains, are still air conditioned to 20 C.
Down here in San Jose, it gets much hotter than San Francisco or Paris: we have several weeks each summer where the temperature is 40 C the entire week. You bet that most down here in Silicon Valley have an AC unit, and of course all public spaces have AC.
Seattle, Washington, is on the same latitude as Paris. In the past only 30% of people had an AC unit in Seattle. Now it's 55%, because the world is getting hotter and people in Seattle are mammals, not lizards, so they need the temperature outside their bodies to be lower than that inside their bodies.
The French and the Europeans in general are stupid about AC.
California agrees with the EU on pretty much everything.
We agree that pollution is an issue. That's why we built out a massive network of solar power, hydroelectric dams, and we still have one nuclear reactor.
At this very moment, California is about 80% solar power.
We also have the largest energy storage system in the world, 10.3 GWh. So we can output the same power as a nuclear reactor, for about five hours (the system is charged by renewable energy).
So we have no hesitation in running AC. Our grid is clean.
France's grid is also clean -- 80% nuclear and 15% hydroelectric -- so why not run AC?
An Australian tourist was raped in Paris a few days ago amidst tight security. Athletes are served half cooked meat and at times meals are scarce. The accommodation is not as needed. The list goes on.
And yet not a single major French news channel has this covered. Not even one.
However, if the Olympics were happening in India or in some "third world" country, they'd have it printed in kindergarten textbooks by now.
Such hypocrisy! I understand that managing such a huge event is not a child's play and therefore things are bound to go wrong. And they did go wrong. So at least now stop labelling other countries as crap when such things happen there as well! If it can happen in "well developed France", it can happen anywhere else as well. If your news channels & newspapers carefully ignore them, you have no right to make a mountain of a molehill when they occur in other countries.
Welcome to the 21th century 🎉
Well they’re never holding the Olympics in a third world country..
That was the most American response ever 😅 Get over it Team USA are one of the rudest sporting teams in the world.
@@downundabrothaTeam USA not sleeping on cardboard boxes and I doubt if basketball teams from other coubtries are either.
@@downundabrothayou're judge clouded with some racist comment, well grow up 😅 stop being a immature child
I remember during my professional athlete days 30 years ago, only poor delegations used to sleep at the village during panam games o smaller games, most of the them would stay in hotels including us, after all a little comfort won't hurt anybody. I've been in both and there's a huge difference and you don't pay much attention when you're tired after a full day of competition, specially when you're 17, 18 years old and nothing hurts.
You still mention yourself. You are humble
That's a hostel. 😂
Best comment award goes to you 🏆 😂🤣😂
Lol
Hey no, don’t insult hostels
@@C4TC4Tit is a compliment
nah, my hostel in paris looked way better than this 😂
All I know is no AirCondition
Only give u a fan
Because they have in-floor cooling technology
And they can rent ac units
@@danalex2991 economical fan made from wood and winds straight from nature
Cardboard boxes to sleep? Food being rationed? What a mess!
This is the true utopia, isn't it
Stfu @@delete9090. U have definitely never worked out or played any sports in ur life
@@delete9090that’s stupid af. Punishing people who worked for their success just because poor people exist. What’s next punishing all skinny people and force feeding food down their throat so they can understand how obesity feels??
@@delete9090seems a bit naive to believe the reason for the lack of accommodations are actually for sustainability reasons. It sounds good, but ultimately its not for the environment. So yea I could maybe get behind it if it was genuine effort towards that but its not. 🤷🏾♀️
@@kaciehawkins4210 "no genuine effort"? u have no idea, cooling system used chilled water, reduced energy consumption, minimized carbon footprint of the Games. improved from 20billion to 10billion. Used SAME sustainable beds in Tokyo Japan 2021, why only in France it's a problem? why are u still on this. They restocked meat, shipped different AC units, "complaints" were resolved almost immediately. Its like at a grocery store, no sauce on shelves so u ask employee and give u one immediately from the back. Ppl didn't like the resourceful efforts so they changed. Why still yapping about it?
It shows why rich get richer and poor get poorer. "Superiors" calling normal things "slave-like" cuz they're out of touch. This isn't a luxury private hotel embellished in gold, this is a place to rest for the Olympics
I don't think the NBA players would even fit on those beds
How are Big Guys suppose to fit in those Bunks? Are they mad?
Yeah ikr!
Paris hosting the Olympics was an absolute failure
@@delete9090 who say's people need to feel how it's like to be less fortunate? If people have the means to not feel that then they won't, that simple. Paris should offer these athletes a proper comfortable place to not let the others who are fortunate get an advantage by not staying in the village because of its poor conditions leaving the less fortunate to suffer even more because they simply can't fund a better living space during the event.
@@delete9090I disagree with that considering a lot of nba players came from less fortunate families themselves. Namely Lebron and Kevin Durant. They worked hard to be treated like kings so they should be treated as such. Whether you think it’s fair or not, or whether they contribute to society or not, the fact of the matter is that their jobs bring a lot of economic value and not everyone can do it.
@@philip7833 if 15,000+ athletes go through it, then basketball players shouldn't be excluded. Its up to them, but this is a visual- a world that tries to be better and make everything fair doesn't work because the rich wanna be treated like "Kings". Rich get richer and poor only get poorer because the fortunate refuse to comply
@@kapeecoffee over 600 tonnes fresh produce by Carrefour, catering firm Sodexo providing 45,000 meals/day to 15,000 Olympic Village athletes.🛌And it's JUST THE FRAME that's strong cardboard. Mattress and pillows are SAME hotel ones. Won't even feel the cardboard
This is the problem, rich get richer and poor get poorer because when people try to make a sustainable change, the "superiors" refuse.
@@delete9090 The poor get poorer because the rich force their "eco-friendly solutions" onto them whilst living a life of absolute indulgence and decadents completely removed from their own actions and consequences. Enough with your neo-Marxist nonsense, nobody wants it!
I worked for years with Olympics hospitality and this has been normal for years for many athletes especially the basketball players.
The beds are made of Amazon delivery boxes from other items that were needed.
So the Olympic athletics are literally sleeping on cardboard boxes, eating vegan meals, and no AC on the buses and in the Olympic village? You guys are nuts!
If you would have listened to the full video or did some research by yourself, you would know that cardboard beds were already used in previous Olympic game editions.
@@Pti_chapowhat about the food and the AC? Especially AC in buses, not even just rooms. I looked up the weather in Paris at 9pm (their time) and it was 82F with 72% humidity.. not having AC in that kind of weather is wild.. it would be like trying to sleep in hot rain
@@At76812 AC is not a big thing in France compared to other countries.
I'm not here to give answers to everything, I'm just saying that not everything is bad and ppl complain about stuff that was similar in previous editions of the Olympics and not causing so much dramas on social media.
@@Pti_chapo I understand.. but think of it as you hosting a dinner party.. generally, you try to make it as accommodating as possible to your guests.. you don’t say “well I never do ____ or have _____ so why would I provide for my guests”
They are hosting the Olympics… not having three ladies over for an afternoon book club meeting.
@@At76812 Yes but it feels like people just love bullying now. Nobody complained about the cardboard beds in other countries and AC is not in many places in France, it's a well known fact, while the majority of American private houses have it installed for example.
I'm not saying everything is perfect, but plenty of these things can easily be understandable.
Thank you for helping french hotels 😂😂😂
They should spend a little more money on the accommodations and less on the opening ceremony😬
They spent nothing on the opening ceremony. When have you seen an opening ceremony without fireworks?
@@jgp7414Team USA 🇺🇸 should NOT be sleeping in those conditions. Our athletes deserve the best for all their hard work to get to the Olympics! Their sponsors should cover hotel and food accommodations!!
Thats what they got a bad side of russia is about. Colapse economy. No cheap gas
@@jgp7414 Celine cost them $2 million, but she was worth it. The rest, not so much.
@@101stairborne6what about the other teams
Thank you for sharing your video about the Olympic village.
NBA athletes already get used to 5 stars hotel comfortable level.
Where can I buy one of these cardboard beds?
From the bum down the street.
@@TheBooban😂😂
I have some Amazon boxes I haven't thrown out, yet. You can have em for free.
Are they 3d printed?
Japan 😅
What an absolute failure. I truly hope Paris never hosts the Olympics ever again.
Yeah. Should be hosted in brampton, canada
The bed is a mattress, the bed frame is cardboard. That's different than a cardboard bed. While the video doesn't show the mattress, several athletes have shared this on Insta. Additionally, cardboard bed frame is have been used in previous Olympics.
I’ll be damned if my glorious King sleeps on a cardboard bed 😂foh. I’m comin BronBron
Kind of sus but funny as hell 😂😂😂
No one gives a shit about your rich athlete in europe. They dont treat them like gods.
@@HumptyMcFly 😹fr I’m in the mattress store rn, bed fit for a King :,
Finally someone saying that this is not only happening in Paris, cardboard beds and athletes staying outside of their village is not a new thing, but looking at some comments, people seem to think France is just doing it wrong, it's almost a trend on social media to critize it now.
While the reality is, the atmosphere in Paris atm is super chill and joyful, you can feel people's excitement about the city and the game! Happy to got the chance to be there and experience it outside of internet ♥️
Spent over a billion on that disgusting spectacle, yet there was a shortage of food for the athletes and also they are sleeping on cardboard beds apparently to "save the environment"..nice to know where the priorities are.
They try to be eco-friendly and sustainable for the good but people complain. Now these guys know what it's like to be the less fortunate who sleep in makeshift cardboard beds and no AC. Sustainability comes at a price, that's the reality. I at least commend them for trying a different down to earth approach
@@delete9090 Down to earth my arse. They do not even have quality food for top athletes with their vegan low protein food. Top performance means top quality food, quality rest, etc. If you cannot afford to be an Olympic host just don't.
@@SuperMerlotevery athlete eats chicken, veggies and protein. Simple ingredients that give u all the nutritients. WATCH every athlete routine and u'll be surprised how basic the nutritionist requirements are. they don't need to be serving 5 star michelin star food seasoned Gordon Ramsey style.
@@delete9090 Down to earth is not making people sleep on cardboard boxes because nobody wants that. Unless your ideal is having everyone be poor and downtrodden which wouldn't surprise me with how removed from reality you are.
@@delete9090 it isn't very down to earth, considering they still used boats, fireworks, tons of lights, and other things that were not environmentally friendly, so it was just hypocritical.
11 000 athletes... Why not just use hotels and support local business and create a local olympic community with the hotels in the area
It's not just the bed, the atmosphere inside the room was overall quite depressing
They try to be eco-friendly and sustainable for the good but people complain. Now these guys know what it's like to be the less fortunate who sleep in makeshift cardboard beds and no AC. Sustainability comes at a price, that's the reality. I at least commend them for trying a different down to earth approach
@@delete9090 You're definitely joking. There are athletes who prepare for this event for 4 years and then make them sleep on cardboard beds.
Furthermore, I'm not sure that in the end, this choice is the most eco-sustainable.
In some cases this "trying a different down to earth approach" is just fluff
@@FabrizioPati-i6f only the frame is cardboard, genius. The mattress and pillow are normal hotel ones. U don't feel the frame at all with the mattress. Tell me, do u feel the wood frame when u sleep on ur bed? Pls have some common sense. Ur the type to hate on little sustainable efforts, turning a simple positive effort into a negative. This is why the rich get richer and poor get poorer cuz "superiors" expect "luxurious private suites" and refuse to humble down
@@delete9090 I know that only the frame is cardboard, genius, but if you think that the response to body movements is the same as a normal bed, then you are a genius squared. And as I wrote before, these operations are more of an advertising operation than anything else; I wouldn't be surprised if at the end of the competition the recycling was less than 5%, with all due respect to "good intentions". These are things we have already seen in previous Olympics
@@FabrizioPati-i6fthat dude keeps spamming that same comment in every thread, obviously a bot or paid to propaganda post
Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse...Paris is outdoing itself every day in becoming the worst idea for an Olympic Games host.
The news channels are blowing this ish up. These olympians are completely fine with olympic village. For f*(ks sakes
Why would you expect a cardboard bed to be adequate for throwers, power lifters, heavyweights??? So crazy
Cardboard beds at the Olympic village, huh? That is the worst cheapest furniture I’ve ever seen.
No wonder why the U.S. basketball can’t sleep there and I feel sorry for them.
They used the same in Japan olympics
Once, we were all of us asked for money to cover extra expenses to travel to some mayor games, our country federation paid for airplane tickets only and we all athletes from my country had to sleep at the villas like sardines and share one large bathroom and our coaches would sleep in 4 start hotels with our money. Food was really bad too and we prefer to buy our breakfast and dinner. We would only eat lunch at the villa. That was 35 years ago.
Why would they when they can get something wayy nicer? They are rich
Sustainability. This Olympics cost 10 billion...it's too much when there's more problems and poor people in the world
@@delete9090 No way youre defending the corrupt olympics. you think any money is going to poor people?
@@delete9090that is not the fault of the athletes. they cannot save us all from poverty. our own countries must support us.
@@nochaoticgoodI don't think u understand, I was talking about the rich who complain about simple things, meanwhile those from more humble countries are grateful for the given amenities. U can tell the ones that complain are lavish individuals who aren't used to normal things.
For the catering of the Olympic Village, there was an overdemand for meat and eggs on the first day, there was a readjustment the next day to meet the demand of the athletes. The same goes for transport, drivers have been added, etc. There is the testimony of athletes who said that the problems were solved and that everything was fine for the food and that the quantities were sufficient. For the beds and the maitresses in the Olympic Village, they are the same as in Tokyo.
NBA Players are multi millionaire they can afford expensive hotels they want
wasn't Japan used the same cardboard bed during the last Olympic? why it's only an issue this time?
This is not news the carboard beds have been used before😂
These are professional sports stars with loads of disposable income to spend, I would stay in a fancy hotel too if money is no object.
I don't get why Summer Olympic cities insist on even building Olympic Villages at all when they almost always have university dorms available. LA, Salt Lake, and Atlanta all did this, and it worked out very well for them. Especially since those universities already have training facilities available right there on the campuses. Paris just wasted billions that they didn't need to spend.
It is because you have not seen average french campus. That is another story.
Don't know why people complain about the cardboard beds. Cardboard could be really sturdy and you won't even know its cardboard with the mattress. In fact, harder beds are healthier for your spine
to me part of being an Athlete at the Olympics is to fully IMMERSE oneself in the Atmosphere of being with your Fellow Athletes from around the World living in the Village, eating there. I would LOVE that!
as far as the weather it looks like the Highs wont go above 85F and the Evenings will be in the mid 60Fs for the next 2 weeks in Paris and mostly cloudy
Shill
Every Olympic Games it is the same thing. Hate the beds. Hate the village. Hate the food. Moving to a hotel, I am wondering if some of these more professional athletes who earn millions are just not used to roughing it. Can they just not get another mattress topper from the store.
It's not that...their bodies are in need of consistency....you can't switch up a routine like how and what you sleep on days before a physical competition...what are the France athletes sleeping on?
French athletes are in the village like everybody else and Tokyo 2020 used cardboard beds too (to recycle i guess). What made me laugh is the English bringing their own chef because the food at the cantine wasn't good enough or something like that.
@@OlivierLebo-n3hdoesn't mean the chef can only whip up english food.
I would say its easier for them to just book a hotel room rather than buying a mattress topper from the store 😅
@@sydhsydh1084 Apparently two female swedish athletes went to the local IKEA and bought mattresses lol quite stereotypical but funny
My cat would love to scratch on those cardboard beds. 😂
the Olympics want to make money not spend money remember that.
those beds look like they would wreck my back
Who let the Paris hold the olympics?
Yeah, you never know if those people who put on the opening ceremony might have cameras in your room. They are that type.
this story is tired. We basically have high-level, high-pay athletes that never stay in the villages cause they are stars and somehow it is turned into a story of athletes walking out.
Some athletes said the beds were uncomfortable, while others said they were okay.
some delegations bought mattress toppers.
There were food supply issues as well.
But no people aren't walking out of the village, some athletes just happen to be travelling stars who are used to hotels and don't want to be in dorms
In Rio Olympics. They Chartered a Cruise Ship just for the USA mens and women's basketball team..
This is why "PRO" athletes should not be allowed in the games. Kudos for Biles for supporting the culture.
Until that bed starts wrecking their backs 💁🏽♀️
but the Olympics help us see who is best overall on a specific day. of course professional athletes would be included. it is just that these specific athletes have accumulated a lot of wealth over their careers.
everyone talking about the beds and making it a bigger thing than it really is, but no one is reporting about the fact that the rooms in the village have no AC, and everyone brining in their own fans in there just to be breathe. It's a sauna in there.
Yes a.c is more important!
Cardboard beds and no AC 😂😂😂 What the hell France!??
They go green
@@aprilbitar8496they picked the worst time to go green.
They had air conditioning for the horses........lol
No wonder France is called "China of Europe" 😂
With the exception that China ain't woke unlike France
Reminds me of the song “Down in the village” by Curtis knight with Jimi hendrix! Sweet tune.🎶
Rich ones sleep in hotels..the poor ones stick with cardboard beds😂
The big thing for me is that olimpics make billions of dollars but the athletes without whom it wouldn’t be possible get zero money zero. Some live in poverty to compete it’s the largest display of inequality on earth. And now biggest display of perversion on top of that. Olimpics is dead.
All olympians should refuse to participate in a program that promotes agendas that have nothing to do with sports.
That’s not a bad idea to give athletes the option to purchase their own stays, they have the basics provided and if they dont find it hospitable then there’s always the freedom to make yourself happy & comfy 🙌🏽
They didn't answer why
From what I've heard, these venues intentionally try to keep rooms semi comfortable but not too much to avoid the spreading of STI, hence the cardboard beds.
@@Dee-jd6ym nah the cardboard is just for the beds to be recyclable after the competition. That's not going to stop the athletes from doing their thing lol
they don't need to explain, but I think they are just used to staying in hotels because they already travel often for basketball. also, they are older.
@@St0rrrm It doesn't stop it slows down or it's supposed too
I like how they’re tryna be diplomatic by repeatedly avoiding to say “ain’t no way I’m sleeping on cardboard”
No A.C.😮🔥
Kudos to all the athletes who showed up and stayed in the village. But when South Korea complains of the transportation and British complains of the food you know France has totally sacrificed quality and cut corners to host this event. The IOC officials are living it up in 5 star hotels eating 3 Michelin stars food while the athletes have to bring their own toilet paper? Why bother to compete? There’s other events and venues that are more accommodating to elite athletes.
Same beds in Tokyo
No toilet paper either, nor house keeping service. If you want to take a dump like this Australian tennis star who suddenly had to rush to bathroom just to found out, there was no toilet paper and being told there was a store close by where she could get some. She bought 4 rolls and made a video out of it by ironically mentioning "happy pooping"
Also food and coffee is being rationed too and food is not high in protein to favor vegan type food.
Why cardboard beds? How dumb.
Liberalism is a mental disorder
Cardboard base as they are recycled after
You're a bit oversensitive if you have an issue with the athletes staying where they want
No AC thats why😅
With basketball players and soccer players are different. Lebron James is 6’9” do you honestly think a cardboard bed would fit him. I imagine gymnasts, swimmers and track and field are staying the village. Basketball players hell nah!
@@Whitneypyant Kevin Durant sleeping on a cardboard bed😅, lebron James 280 lbs😅,, NBA playwrs have a lot of money so five star hotel will do😅
Bro those giants ain't sleeping on a cardboard bead💀
Wow, the room shown in the thumbnail just looks absolutely pathetic for world-class athletes to stay in, I don't blame them at all for staying elsewhere
The organiser needs to make larger cardboard beds (8 feet long) for these basketball players.
Those things are worst than a college dorm. They cannot sleep with the noise, beds are horrible, food is just cafeteria food. So all these high profile athletes make millions per year and can afford a nice room somewhere, then so be it. I would do the exact same thing.
It's Olympics but the condition is way worse than in a prison. A few carboard pieces to save the environment, while millions people still use proper beds in France? What's that for? What problem does it solve? Instead of providing the best condition for the athletes to compete at their highest form, since this is once every 4 years event, France make them suffer to live in a primitive time
I have no plans of watching the Paris Olympics, after the mocking of the last supper. Mocking Christianity is disgusting.🎉🎉🎉🎉
Who was mocking the last supper?
What happened?
Thank you
What a poorly run event.
Too much concern about so called " environment friendly" or gender neutral thing which I do not think important. The Paris totally forgot about athletes who really compete in Olympics.
All the boning happens in the village though 😮
The food is not rationned ( They give the unused food to the poor every day), same beds than Tokyo 2020 eco friendly, the village has geothermal cooling . The whole village is designed to be re used for social flats or middle class . All is on purpose to be eco friendly and re used at 100 % . A lot of buildings already existed
But the Olympics let men fight women in boxing?
What is this funny quality of apartment and training facilities ?😂
Ugh why can't they just be down to earth normal. Saw the olympic village on an Irish athlete's channel, looks totally fine.
Let them spend money like a**holes.
It is noisy and can be chaotic in the village dorms. I've read stories of athletes not able to sleep the night before their event, which definitely could hurt their performance.
@@latebloomerabroad noisy due to lack of education.
Imsure Asian japanese are not noisy.
@@FERDI-f6nwtf are you saying
@@FERDI-f6nlay of the meat
...did France or the Olympics committee think this was a good idea? A bunch of cardboard beds? No wonder Embiid wanted to play with team USA. Sleeping on no damn cardboard...
First ban coco cola 😢 ... Even sports players don't drink it regularly like common people ... Blame for the one who promotes it : politicians , corporate and richers
There's no way someone as big as Anthony Davis would even be able to fit sleeping on that cardboard bed lol.
Yet Curry & Durant will lecture all of us on "climate change"
All a bunch of virtue signaling 👎
do they? wow..the limits of humankind..i mean the privileged
When has KD or Steph ever lectured anyone on claimant change, your making stuffy up😂
@@AmanuelTeshome-qo9vp If conservatives can´t make up stories how can they become victims?
Woke generation spotted.
Wait, why do they have cardboard beds? That sounds pretty odd to me.
NBA Players are a different level of Athelete they are worth $100M with a huge fan base + they are a franchise player with tons of endorsment that need to be take care ..theres no way you can ask them to sleep on a tiny room made of cardboard..
Since they are rich, they can pay from their own pocket . Rooms are same for all athletes from all countries.
@@hipotenuza5663they do pay for their accommodations. of course the host country must at least offer accommodations for incoming athletes.
I think nba players should not go to Olympics in the first place. Best use some college players or high schoolers who are not worth as much.
Service has been very poor in Paris!yet no one is saying anything about it ,but if this was China or in an African nations you would have herd it all over the world.
Well obviously famous athletes and stars of the sport are not going to stay there, like, almost all the tennis players who participate in the Olympics are top 100 in the world, so they're millionaires, you expect them to stay in the village? especially the top top ones like Nadal, Djokovic, Musetti etc who are likely to meet non famous athletes (like those lesser known sports ones, idk, gymnastics, shooting, divers etc) who ask for their autograph all the time? naaah
First round is played in Lille so there will be a problem if they stay in Paris or they'll need to take an hour train rude everyday
Hotels look better then that
The beds and the maitresses are the same as in Tokyo ! The US basketball players have not been to the Olympic Village for years (several Olympiads). They still prefer to go to hotels !
Cardboard beds?
To much co-Ed activity going on in the village, if you know what I mean. So 2 people in bed would break the bed. It’s a deterrent.
@@samanthawhang7498 Aaaaahhh….. 😂