{"id":10071,"date":"2024-07-24T15:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=10071"},"modified":"2024-07-24T15:24:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T15:24:49","slug":"what-do-olympians-eat-for-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=10071","title":{"rendered":"What Do Olympians Eat for Breakfast?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The road to the Olympics is paved with carbs.<\/p>\n

An estimated 15,000 athletes are prepared to compete in Paris this summer. Most will arrive with detailed plans for what to eat<\/a> before, during and after their events.<\/p>\n

\u201cPart of their training is their nutrition,\u201d said Sarah Wick, a sports dietitian and the director of sports nutrition for the Ohio State Sports Medicine Institute. \u201cIt\u2019s just like strength and conditioning. They need to know just what nutrition they need, and when they need it.\u201d<\/p>\n

High-performance athletes require plenty of carbohydrates for energy and enough protein to repair their muscles and recover between workouts. Every event and athlete has different needs, but they all require fuel, and lots of it. Still, that doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re eating only health foods.<\/p>\n

Usain Bolt<\/a>, for one, estimated that he ate 100 McDonalds chicken nuggets each day at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, because they were a familiar food he knew his stomach could handle. He went on to win three gold medals.<\/p>\n

We asked a handful of Paris-bound Olympians to share their food diaries and photos from a typical training week in the lead-up to the Games.<\/p>\n

Here are their breakfast routines, along with a few other snack highlights.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The road to the Olympics is paved with carbs.An estimated 15,000 athletes are prepared to compete in Paris this summer. Most will arrive with detailed plans for what to eat before, during and after their events.\u201cPart of their training is their nutrition,\u201d said Sarah Wick, a sports dietitian and the director of sports nutrition for the Ohio State Sports Medicine Institute. \u201cIt\u2019s just like strength and conditioning. They need to know just what nutrition they need, and when they need it.\u201dHigh-performance athletes require plenty of carbohydrates for energy and enough protein to repair their muscles and recover between workouts. Every event and athlete has different needs, but they all require fuel, and lots of it. Still, that doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re eating only health foods.Usain Bolt, for one, estimated that he ate 100 McDonalds chicken nuggets each day at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, because they were a familiar food he knew his stomach could handle. He went on to win three gold medals.We asked a handful of Paris-bound Olympians to share their food diaries and photos from a typical training week in the lead-up to the Games.Here are their breakfast routines, along with a few other snack highlights.Getty ImagesWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10073,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10074,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10071\/revisions\/10074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}