Retired Australian swimmer James Magnussen roasted the Paris Olympics organizers for prioritizing vegan diets over the protein-heavy meals needed by high-performing athletes after the reigning champion of the women’s 200-meter and 400-meter freestyle, Ariarne Titmus, failed to accomplish her goal of setting a world record on Saturday. “The lack of world records boils down to this whole eco-friendly, carbon footprint, vegan-first mentality rather than high performance,” Magnussen said of his countrymate.

The majority of the food available in the village’s cafeteria is vegan, he reported. “They had a charter that said 60 percent of food in the village had to be vegan friendly and the day before the opening ceremony they ran out of meat and dairy options in the village because they hadn’t anticipated so many athletes would be choosing the meat and dairy options over the vegan friendly ones,” he explained.

"The caterer had to rejig their numbers and bring in more of those products because surprise, surprise — world class athletes don’t have vegan diets… let me tell you, Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps, Roger Federer — none of those guys are on a vegan diet.”