“The organization in Tokyo was much better”

The Paris 2024 Olympic Games are just one day away from closing. And during these 17 days of competition It seems to have become clear what the two negative points were in the French organizing committee. The first, which already existed before the Olympic event, was the contamination of the water in the Seine River. The second, the bad conditions that some athletes have found in the Olympic Villagelocated in the neighborhood of Saint-Denis.

It was already seen a few days ago when the image of the Italian swimmer, gold in 100 meters backstroke, went viral, Thomas Ceccon, sleeping in a garden around the VillaThe Olympic champion had previously criticised the rooms for being very small and ventilation was poorAnd after this criticism many more have arrived, but the last one comes from the tennis player Alexander Zverevwho won the gold medal in Tokio 2020.

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The German did not have the same luck in this Olympic event. Despite being played in Roland Garrosa place where two months earlier he beat Rafael Nadal in three sets [6-3, 7-6(5) y 6-3] and lost in the final against Carlos Alcaraz (6-3, 2-6, 5-7, 6-1 and 6-2), Zverev fell in the quarterfinals of the Games against the Italian Lorenzo Musetti (7-5 and 7-5). So any possibility of a win disappeared. to revalidate the Olympic gold.

And once his participation in Paris 2024 was over, Zverev continued with his schedule and is already in Canada to kick off the American hard court tour, which will end with the US Open in New York. But, even so, the German wanted to tell his experience in the Olympic Villagein an interview with Tennis Channel.

“Unfortunately, I have to admit that the Olympic Village was not the best. I stayed there, just like the whole German team, our federation forced us to do so. We suffered with food and sleeping conditions“, confessed Zverev, who also added another problem.

“There was no air conditioning in the rooms either.which was a bit difficult for me, but it was the same for everyone, so I’m not complaining. In that sense, The organization in Tokyo was much better“, said the world number 5 after his time at the Olympic Games, which he will not remember fondly.

The Paris 2024 Olympic Games are just one day away from closing. And during these 17 days of competition It seems to have become clear what the two negative points were in the French organizing committee. The first, which already existed before the Olympic event, was the contamination of the water in the Seine River. The second, the bad conditions that some athletes have found in the Olympic Villagelocated in the neighborhood of Saint-Denis.