"The Team USA housing in Teahupo’o is within a private home and all furniture is provided within the home."
(Apologies for yesterday’s outage. What a stupid, stupid mess. And now, back to your regularly scheduled programming.)
The 2024 Olympiad is officially underway after Paris staged a grand opening ceremony. Boats on the Seine, the Tour Eiffel awash in laser beams, French-Canadian Celine Dion leaving the rain glittered audience ultra moved. Three weeks ago, now, I heard Bernard Arnault’s son Antoine declare that the family’s LVMH had designed the show and hell would come if it was not a success. Well, he, like Lachlan Murdoch, can rest easy.
Halfway across the world, and twelve hours earlier, Olympic surfers showcased their own piece of France, this one with crystalline waters and impossibly green hills. Much of the world getting its first glimpse of Tahiti and its gorgeous “End of the Road.”
As those who have been to Teahupo’o know, the town is very small with no hotels or McMansions. As such, Olympic committee organizers opted to commandeer a repurposed cargo ship as a floating athlete village. Tales of lusty encounters between medal hopefuls are all-to-common at most Olympic Games and it must be thought that adding warm tropical air, poisson cru and the gentle sway of the ocean currents would only heighten amorous feelings.
Smart, then, for Team USA to avoid.
Julie Dussliere, Senior VP, Chief of Paralympics & Internally Managed Sports, told People Magazine, “Athletes are free to stay wherever they choose. Many nations and athletes have elected to rent homes in the Teahupo’o area in lieu of staying on the cruise ship. Team USA’s property is located within the town of Teahupo’o near the ‘End of the Road’ and the Point.”
Providing more context, Dussliere explained, “All houses are typical of homes in French Polynesia with a heavy emphasis on outdoor living and functional outdoor spaces. The Team USA housing in Teahupo’o is within a private home and all furniture is provided within the home. The beds are not cardboard.”
Florida’s Caroline Marks gave a peek of the house to her many fans on Instagram and the deck does look like a very nice place to take in the sunset whilst nursing a bowl of poisson cru and snuggling….
…uh oh.
More as the story develops.
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Preparation is always the key.
They better not be using my tax dollars on AC. A fan is just fine as far as I’m concerned.
Probably no room on the boat, given the 600 different coaches in the entourage.
Those eyebrows are really whacky.
More likely being a cargo ship the surfers were afraid of having to do some real work
Welcome back! Who’d have guessed that cocaine + sharks would be your undoing…
USA gets claim on Hawaii and doubles size of its Olympic team
kind of bullshit really
French team has only 1 person from France..