scorpion_runner wrote:
A lot of athletes are coming down with food poisoning. I wonder if Dibaba was experiencing that before her race, because she looked beyond terrible.
This is why I never eat hotel food, never. It's just too easy for a hotel to tamper with your food, whether it is due to your race, political reasons, athletic reasons, etc.
When you start to get a cluster like that without a common food element, it's time to speculate about norovirus and whether they need to do a deep decontamination of athlete common areas. I remember a few years back when the NCAA had to postpone the men's D1 swimming championship for a day and chlorinate and bleach the heck out of everything because a cluster of athletes had apparently picked up the bug on the flight in and then were making heavy, heavy use of the locker room toilet area.
There are some decent food options at the mall a block or two from the arena, (Westfield Stratford where the train and tube station is) including a number of them, IIRC, where you can watch them prepare your meal. If you want to cook for yourself, there's also a Staybridge Suites there where all the rooms have kitchens and two grocery store in the complex- Waitrose and Marks & Spencer- that have decent food selection.