PYEONGCHANG, 9 Feb 2018:
Egg sandwiches. Bacon and eggs. Egg salad. Eggs on toast. Scrambled eggs, or fried.
After taking receipt of 15,000 eggs – instead of the 1,500 they wanted – Norway’s team at this month’s Pyeongchang Winter Olympics may have a pretty limited menu.
Norwegian chef de mission Tore Ovrebo struggled to suggest what they will do with the delivery, but did not rule out consuming them.
Their 121-strong delegation of athletes and officials would get plenty of protein, eating 124 eggs each.
“The eggs was more like a misunderstanding than something that we needed, so it was an extra zero on the orders, so 1,500 to 15,000,” he said with a rueful laugh.
“They will probably use them I guess and I don’t know, maybe the people that supplied us with them will take them back I don’t know. It’s not a big issue.”
Ovrebo said it was important to enjoy the Games as well as scramble for medals.
“The aim is to have fun and be as good friends when we go back as when we came here. In the meantime we are hoping for 30 medals.
“So that’s the aim and we want to be among the top three nations and that normally means that we need to have 10 gold or more so that’s the aim.”
– Reuters