Kenyan volleyball girls boycott Puerto Rican food
The national women volleyball team has rejected the food offered by the hosts at the ongoing Rio Olympics qualifiers in Puerto Rico.
Players in the team have raised complaints to the hotel where they are residing in about food that is “too spicy, too salty and in very small portions.”
“The food was too spicy, too salty and was also served in very small portions. The only food we were comfortable with in the menu was bread, so we had no option but to look for a familiar meal at MacDonalds,” team captain Mercy Moim said.
“We just don’t eat anything when on travel. We would prefer food we are all familiar with especially when we have crucial matches ahead of us,” she added.
TEAM’S CHANCES
The team’s media officer Dennis Machio confirmed that the ladies “had to crisscross the City of San Juan in the middle of the night in search of MacDonald’s fast food joints after they rejected food offered by the host hotel.”
Team manager, Martin Kimondo, is understood to have raised concerns and the caters reportedly agreed to change the diet before the team plays Puerto Rico in their third and final match of the qualifiers on Sunday night.
Other than Kenya and Puerto Rico, the other teams in the four-nation competition are Colombia and Algeria.
Kenya has already played two matches, losing to Colombia before winning comfortably against the North Africans.
The 3-0 (25-14,25-15,25-13) loss to Colombia has complicated the team’s chances of making it to Rio since only one ticket is up for grabs for the competing teams.
