The food at the venues

Emails have been flying all around today from all the Getty shooters and editors about the lack of food at the venues for the media. Brekafast, lunch and dinner, the only options are little cookies (cakes as they call them here) and oranges and bananas. I like the option of fruit, but how many oranges a day can one person eat (I am on six right now). The cookies taste kinda 'ehh' but are edible.


The 'cake'





Orange and bananas



I thought that's ok, if there is no media food available might as well go up and try to buy something from the concession stands. Well, that's no help either as most of the venues don't see ANY food at all. So for events like the velodrome which runs for 12 hours or so tomorrow, fans won't be able to eat. The venues are so far outside the city that even finding a local restaurant is hard.

To think that the American concept of the $5 hot dog and the $9 beer was outrageous.