Three million bananas; 600-800 baguettes a day; 47,000 plates...as the world’s elite sportsmen and women arrive in Paris, a huge catering operation awaits them. Ruth Alexander finds out what it takes to keep the athletes happy and fuel a medal-winning performance. Team GB pole vaulter Holly Bradshaw talks about her relationship with food during her years as an athlete, and why she’s looking forward to retirement after Paris 2024. Alicia Glass, senior dietician for Team USA, gives an insight in to how a peanut butter and jelly sandwich at the right time can make a big difference. Reporter Michael Kaloki in Nairobi drops in on Kenya’s sprinters while they’re having lunch to find out what’s on their plates. And the head of catering for the London 2012 Games Jan Matthews offers advice for the team in Paris this year on how to keep athletes who need a lot of fuel happy. This programme includes conversations about losing and gaining weight, goal weights and difficult relationships with food that some listeners might find upsetting. If you would like to get in touch with the show, please email: thefoodchain@bbc.co.uk Presenter: Ruth Alexander Producers: Hannah Bewley, Elisabeth Mahy and Michael Kaloki (Image: Holly Bradshaw, Team GB pole vaulter, wins bronze at Tokyo 2020. Credit: Reuters)
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25,000 loaves of bread, 232 tonnes of potatoes, 82 tons of seafood, 31 tonnes of poultry, another 100 tons of other meat.
This is a shopping list.
75,000 liters of milk, 19 tons of eggs, 21 tons of cheese, 330 tons of fruit.
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Welcome to the food chain on the BBC World Service, I'm Ruth Alexander and this week we're looking at what Olympians eat.
Going into a food hall in an Olympics is really stressful because it feels like you're just going into, like, the lion's den.
It's like every man for themselves.
His plate was absolutely stacked.
I just eaten maybe four or five steaks or something like that.
We'll hear about the carefully curated diets.
The pressures I had people saying on social media.