The narrative from the french is they want it to be the most eco-friendly olympics of all time, hence the cardboard beds, vegan diets etc. What a happy coincidence that that also means they can cut the budget.
As soon as the olympics started teams were complaining about the lack of protein because athletes chose the chicken and eggs, so they ran out of those immediately. Quelle fucking surprise serious athletes choose protein.
I saw some hilarious comments from salty frenchmen when the british team brought in their own chef, how dare the bongs bring their own chef to the 'country of gastronomy'.