Some Olympians are staying in hotels, skipping the Olympic Village | USA TODAY 

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

Neva that

Not unless you're Delonte West.

​@@sgg17003wtf 😂

@@sgg17003 LMAO

@@sgg17003😂

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

It's great that france doesnt gv a shit. No one cares about an overpaid athlete. Play your game and get out

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😂

The olympic village rooms dont even have AC in them. They have to bring their own apparently 💀.

'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.

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

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

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!

Welcome to the 21th century 🎉

In india only one women wouldnt have been raped. Men would have entered the stadiums to harass women. It's okay to admit that some countries are worse for women. Which it is. Women like me who dont live in a western country can tell you how shittier it is here

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.

They failed to understand many things about athletes

Same for food and proteins

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?

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.

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 😂

@@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!

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

You still mention yourself. You are humble

Because they have in-floor cooling technology

And they can rent ac units

@@danalex2991 economical fan made from wood and winds straight from nature

Yeah. Should be hosted in brampton, canada

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 😅

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

Yeah ikr!

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.

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 :,

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

@@user-xk9dl8xw8l 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

@@user-xk9dl8xw8lthat dude keeps spamming that same comment in every thread, obviously a bot or paid to propaganda post

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.

No wonder why the U.S. basketball can’t sleep there and I feel sorry for them.

They used the same in Japan olympics

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.

Yes a.c is more important!

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.

​@@user-co9wi2lj2jdoesn'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

They go green

​@@aprilbitar8496they picked the worst time to go green.

It is because you have not seen average french campus. That is another story.

With the exception that China ain't woke unlike France

Youre also not competing for world champion in front of your entire nation. Please…!! Imagine the stress and anxiety they go through knowing they can fail and they really need to do once in a lifetime performance to make it out with some sponsors and become rich. More athletes don’t have the luxury.

USA team are used to having air conditioning. It not just USA that are bringing air conditioning Great Britain, Canada,Denmark, Japan, Greece and Australia are as well. Why are you complaining about the US bringing them?

I thought you were 1st world

If you are not able to provide basic things to the players why hoste the olympics

@@Whitneypyant Even supposed 3rd world athletes have AC back home. These people can't sell their líes anymore.

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

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😅

Who was mocking the last supper?

What happened?

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.

@@user-nm4wk7tt9wwtf are you saying

@@user-nm4wk7tt9wlay of the meat

Liberalism is a mental disorder

Cardboard base as they are recycled after

They can if They want to

Simone can but she chose not to. It's all about preference and comfort. I guess she is comfortable and happy being in the village.

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.

Tokyo olympics had the exact same beds. Did you draw the same conclusion for them?...

It’s the new trend. You need to get one of those card boards.

@samanthawhang7498 Aaaaahhh….. 😂