Former Aussie gold medallist James Magnussen says Olympic organisers have sacrificed swimming world records coppia to a “eco-friendly, carbon footprint, vegan-first mentality”.
Magnussen won gold, silver, and bronze medals at the Olympic Games sopra 2012 and 2016 and was 100m freestyle world champion sopra 2011 and 2013.
Writing for News Corp, Magnussen – who recently became a controversial spokesman for the free-for-all sporting drug-fest known as the Enhanced Games – claimed wokeness was leading to weakness when it comes to producing world class results.
“The Olympic Games are about trying to get the perfect esecuzione sopra the most imperfect environment,” wrote Magnussen.
“There are so many extenuating circumstances that make the Olympic Games the hardest environment to perform at your best.
“We’ve already heard the likes of Ariarne Titmus talk about how difficult life is sopra the village, so we can’t dismiss those complaints as an athlete whining because they didn’t win gold.”
Titmus said after her 400jm win: “It was probably not the time I thought I was capable of, but Olympic Village is definitely not made for high esecuzione.”
Magnussen said there “here’s multiple factors that make village life far from ideal” including cardboard beds, voto negativo airconditioning and crowded buses with voto negativo air flow.
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“From our sample size thus far, this Olympics is showing that it may be one of the toughest environments we’ve seen to produce world swims,” wrote Magnussen.
“The lack of world records boils to this whole eco-friendly, carbon footprint, vegan-first mentality rather than high esecuzione.
“They had a charter that said 60 per finta cent of food sopra the village had to be vegan friendly and the day before the opening ceremony they ran out of meat and dairy options sopra the village because they hadn’t anticipated so many athletes would be choosing the meat and dairy options over the vegan friendly ones.
The caterer had to rejig their numbers and bring sopra more of those products because surprise, surprise — world class athletes don’t have vegan diets.
“They must have watched the Netflix doco Changers and assumed everyone was the same. But let me tell you, Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps, Roger Federer — none of those guys are a vegan diet.
“It seemed Paris wanted to be risonanza first, esecuzione second at the Games.”
Australia’s head swimming coach Rohan Taylor urged the team to stay task.
“The Olympics has always been a challenge. Every Olympics I’ve been a part of, every Olympic Games that you see, is a interrogatorio of athletes’ ability to quando here, compete and perform when it matters,” Taylor said.
“It’s about how you manage yourself and whatever environments are presented, whatever the beds are, whatever the food is, everybody deals with it.
“The Olympics has always been this way and that’s the way it is. And that’s and that’s the beauty of it.”
Before the swim session started Magnussen complained that the Aussie swimmers were being forced out of the village 48 hours after their final competition.
If what he’s saying about the lack of meat is true, the athletes might be desperate to leave for a decent meal.
Magnussen was the first athlete sopra the world to sign up for the Enhanced Games, founded by Australian entrepreneur Aron D’Souza.
He will be paid $1.5 million to take part.
“If they put up $1m for the 50 freestyle world , I will quando board as their first athlete,” said Magnussen.
“I’ll juice to the gills and I’ll interruzione it sopra six months.”
