Olympic Athlete Responds to Plant-Based Menu

The media: “Athletes NEED animal protein at the Olympics to be healthy and perform at their best!”

The Athletes: “I’m stoked at my Macca’s”

[purplemonsoon]

They’re complaining that 60% of the menu in the Olympic Village is vegan. So, they still have 40% that isn’t.
Us vegans are used to most menus only being 1% vegan and we’re grateful to even have that.

[anointed]

People would rather eat trash because of their egos.

[robsengahay]

Athletes being that ignorant about nutrition. What hope is there for ordinary people?

[ericgeorge]

I don't understand any of those words. Can someone translate for me?

[markus]

Seriously? Out of all food she eats fast food as an athlete??? Not very convincing at all!

[terryjackson]

Oh I didn't realize... Is jumping through HOOPS to cause animal torture a new Olympic sport?

[kovy]

She’s sponsored… so yeah, that’s expected.

[cloudten]

I wonder how much that endorsement cost MacDonald's 😂?

[pbworld]

The fencing gold medallist from Hong Kong, Vivian Kong, has been vegan before she won gold at Paris and before she won gold at Tokyo.

[ceeemm]

Geez, even olympic athletes can be bogans....didn't know that.

[purplemonsoon]

People don’t recognise quality real food.

The animals aren’t stoked.

[DoctorRevers]

A lot of pro athletes still get total misinformation when it comes to nutrition. It’s lazy traditional stuff.

[shadowdwellerconwis]

Eating that food won you a bronze medal FFS 😂

[jamesbyrne]

It’ll surprise no one that athletes aren’t always good people.

[nasiatsekouras]

Better think twice about the crap you eat, because every sentient being deserves to live a life in peace!
VeganForLife 🌱💕🐄

[susiedaisy]

Cos she's not the animal that's suffering ..so she don't care selfish person 😡😡

[sonnypattison]

Imagine being an Olympic athlete and eating McDonald’s XD

[cosmiccreator]

..and that folks, is the difference between 🥉&🥇.
Plant based world!
For the Animals!
For the planet!
And for your health! 💚🌍💚

[sentinel]

I’m a Brit but I couldn’t understand what she said 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[ABCDEF-zlnj]

Expecting athletes to change their nutrition for two weeks during their most important athletic event which they've spent years training for is unrealistic. The comments bashing this Aussie athlete for how she eats are very narrow minded and ignorant. We don't expect people to change over night when switching to PBWH, why force it on athletes who are competing for two weeks? This is the same thinking when Paris organizers said there wouldn't be air conditioning in the athletes village. Countries ended up bringing their own....

Athletes didn't train to get to the Olympics to save the world.