From complaints in Paris to praise in Italy, the Olympic dining story has taken a dramatic turn. At the 2026 Winter Games, athletes are loving the food, with long queues for pizza, pasta and one viral chocolate lava cake. Instead of protein debates, the focus has shifted to carbohydrates. Comfort food, local cuisine and energy-packed meals are now the highlights inside the Olympic Village. Has Italy found the perfect Olympic menu formula? Rupha Ramani brings you the full story.
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33 Comments
This is our strategy, we fill other athletes with pizza and dessert, so they get heavier and we win more medals.
C'è l' impiccagione per chi chiede una pizza con l' ananas e l'impalamento per gli spaghetti spezzati col ketchup
2:30 next he will eat the curtain 👀👀👀
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Non fermatevi a pasta , pizza e focacce e dolci … l' Italia è molto altro …assaggiate le specialità dei secondi piatti di carne o pesce con i vari contorni … altrimenti non potete dire di sapere cos' è il cibo italiano !!! NON OER NIENTE È OATRIMONIO MONDIALE UNESCO !!! ,👏👍🇮🇹❤️
Mangiate, mangiate…
🍕🍕🍕🍝🍝🍝🎂🎂🎂🧆🧆🧆
L’Italia non ha mai vinto tante medaglie 🤣🤣🤣
Per una volta nella vostra vita state mangiando bene…imparate e ricordate per i posteri 😅
cagato in testa ai francesi anche sta volta
it's like if olympics were in USA and you see tv shows on … "hot dog". it's bit funny. pasta and pizza here are like the bottom of cuisine.
I am sorry but I am really fed up with this foreign reports’ obsession with italian food seemingly identified only with pasta, pizza and cakes/treats ! (By the way in northern Italy , especially in alpine areas, polenta is more popular than pasta). Have you never been in an real Italian restaurant o al least seen all the food in the Olimpics “main dining” facility in Milan ? What about meat, fish, cheese or veg proteic dishes and the variety of vegetables ?
Why the focus is always on the carb dishes? I am italian and I eat pasta not more than twice a week. And pizza much less. Also, I don’t drink coffee nor wine 🤷🏻♀️. Please stop commonplaces. I agree that some italian dishes are very popular because they are tasteful and comforting. But it is not just about this. Italians care a lot about quality and healtiness both of ingredients and preparation and/or cooking.
Mangiamo anche pesce…di diverse qualità e cotto al forno,alla griglia,in frittura.
I came to visit Italy 20 years ago, and I decided to rest here 🙂
Italy is at second place of medal table at the moment with a very simple winning strategy: slow down the non-italian athletes with good food!
Gli atleti sono qua in Italia per competere, ma anche in vacanza e per divertirsi ed è giusto che mangino bene e gli italiani se li coccolano!
…now I’m curious. What were they serving, in Paris?
That was the strategy all along, sweeping as many medals as possible while all the other athletes are underperforming by getting fat. SERVES YOU RIGHT!
The importance is not winning, it is beating tge french.
The South Koreans and the Japanese made sure they had their own food purveyors available specifically for the athletes, at least in Milan, because they judged the food at the Olympic Village canteen inadequate.
Of course pasta over protein! Every day I eat pasta, at lunch and at dinner!
Put it as you like, but Italian cuisine, it's the best in the world. I am an Italian expat in the uk for over 30 years, and everyday I cook Italian food at home❤
carbohydrates are also necessary after sport!
Ma in Italia non si mangia solo pasta e pizza, mangiamo riso, pesce, verdure, polenta, carne,
Italian food & culture is absolutely the BEST!!!❤❤
US chemicals vs. food
Simply..we live for eating…others eat for living
Italian food is better than french food??? *Mild Shock meme
We are the 🔝 ! Sorry
those pizzas look a bit sad to be honest, we can do much better ones.
To think that people are going crazy for simple canteen food makes you wonder about the quality of the food people eat.
We have protein food, if you don't know
The italian job: make other athletes in the world eat well and in abundance so we can win
PASTA PANE AND ALL YOU SEE IS BORN IN SOUTH ITALY, NOT noRTH, NORTH INVADED ITALY AND STEAL EVERYTHING … ATTENTION, THEY ARE TELLING TO PEOPLE THAT THEY PROBLEM AT THEIR "RENI" SO CORRUPT DOCTORS SELL THIS
Well it's not a Fatima secret that you need Carbs for prolungated and fatiguing activities and Protein for short time, muscular explosive activities.
An Italian know that since it have 10 y/o.