Viv Forbes: Green Foods Fail Olympics

The first occupants of the Olympics village in Paris quickly taught the caterers that athletes did not favour their “climate-friendly” diet of things like avocados on toast plus almond-milk coffee. The athletes demanded more meat and eggs.

Paris Olympics CEO, Etienne Thobois, told reporters they suddenly needed more animal protein, causing them to order “700 kilos of eggs and a ton of meat, to meet the demands of the athletes.”

Peter Williams: Knocked Out

Boxing's Olympic transgender problem

Forget the drag queens mocking the Last Supper, or the dirty river which threatens to make the triathlon a duathlon, or the convicted rapist still living in the athletes’ village.

The Games of the 33rd Olympiad are but hours away from their biggest controversy yet.