Italy’s Olympic Food Wins Gold: Pasta, Pizza & Cake Steal the Show | First Sports With Rupha Ramani
From complaints in Paris to praise in Italy, the Olympic dining story has taken a dramatic turn. At the 2026 Winter Games, athletes are loving the food, with long queues for pizza, pasta and one viral chocolate lava cake. Instead of protein debates, the focus has shifted to carbohydrates. Comfort food, local cuisine and energy-packed meals are now the highlights inside the Olympic Village. Has Italy found the perfect Olympic menu formula? Rupha Ramani brings you the full story.
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…luckily in Italy there is more than pasta and pizza. By the way that's not even food from the regions where the Olympics take place.
I'd say eating so much carbs every four years regardless of their nutrition plans is okay 🤣
The French Olympics was a dusgrace, from food to the anti Christ ceremony.
That's what athletes chose not what Olympic stuff offer. Also they don't know what they are missing just eating pasta and pizza and not tasting other great Italian dishes full of proteins.
What on earth is strange about athlets wanting carbs, they are the ultimate muscle fuel.
Italians are inheritors of Ancient Roman civilization.
Sadly Anglo saxons in USA claim to be inheritors of Roman and greek heritage, while they lived in mud huts when Romans where a advanced civilization.
They like to make movies about spartans of greece and Caesar , with anglo saxons as main characters. They high jacked they identity of Romans and greeks becuase they had non , putting all in a blanket Idea of White people , amongst whom germanic tribes including anglo saxons would be the superior whites. They actively discriminated against Italians and greeks in 80s , when they were in absolute power. Now that they see their power diwindeling they are including people as far as dagistan and kazakistan as whites .
They have taken over so much land USA ,CANADA, AUSTRALIA, NEWZEALAND.. and tell us see how different we are , we have different accents . While locking up mexicans with native American blood and who are Christians in cages.
It boils my blood to see these anglo saxons make movies about Rome and greece while playing those characters.
And somehow it is a trend amongst anglo saxons men of USA to say " ohh we think about roman empire all the time " even Italians don't pretend that much about it , or greeks .
Identity theft to the max .
Pasta has the same amount of protein as fishes like cod or salmon, and slightly less than chicken breasts.
16 grams of protein per 100g of pasta. At least if you buy good pasta.
You Americans can only teach how to wage wars and how to dominate other nations, for the rest, step aside, with food, step aside, you don't know how to eat anything. In Italy we don't only eat pasta and pizza, pasta is only a first course like rice can be for the Chinese or for other nations like in South America, moreover pasta contains other things. When you eat a plate of carbonara you are also eating the proteins of 200g of bacon, the 3 eggs and the cheese that go into the carbonara. Ditto when you eat a lasagna you are eating the proteins of the meat that goes into the ragù for the lasagna, pasta and pizza are a dish for you tourists, we Italians eat pizza once a week on Friday or Saturday with friends at a pizzeria or with family. It is you who are sick, pasta, I repeat, has carbohydrates but also proteins, food is varied and the body needs to eat varied. I was a cook for years in an international tennis tournament, this tournament was always won by a tennis player who 1 hour before the matches for lunch or dinner asked me for a plate of spaghetti with garlic and oil, while everyone else ate meat or other things with sauces made with cream or rice and other things of that nature.
Hahaha it's just pasta and pizza you can eat it everywhere 😂😂😂
Nobody has "discovered" risotto alla milanese yet? That's a pity because it's delicious.
Italy won so many medals by serving good food and slowing down the rest of the athlets
Italians never disappoint at the dining table 👏🏽
in Italy we say:”e sticazzi!” normal we have the best cuisine in the world!
Thank you God for making me Italian ♥️♥️♥️♥️
There have been a shortage for 2 days in Paris they corrected it quickly.
I'm an aged male Italian who has lived 8 years in France. I met a few women online and invited them to have dinner together to some restaurant, but every time they told me: "Wait, you're Italian, right? So, let's have dinner at your place, and you cook!".
I'm not at all an expert cook, and they didn't know me at all, and yet they where ready to risk a se*ual ass*ult and mu*der just to taste some authentic home made Italian food: isn't it crazy? 😬
Rupha Ramani is so HOT !! I like this channel. Kudos to Italy – I keep hearing they are great hosts and doing awesome.
Siamo felici che gli atleti siano contenti, questo li aiuterà a dare il loro meglio nelle competizioni 😀😀👍👍
Pizza & pasta makes you FASTA (faster.. ) 😉
Its what real food taste, the same food that Europe with they fight to Farmers is trying to destroy .