“10 girls, two bathrooms,” Coco Gauff reveals she’s the only female player from America’s tennis team staying at $1.6 billion Olympic Village
The 20-year-old also revealed that the rooms were meant for just eight athletes but 10 athletes were living in them.
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Coco Gauff shared a TikTok clip to show how players are living at the Olympic Village (Images via New York Post, Imago)
Athletes playing at the Paris Olympics are not happy about the conditions at the Olympic Village, and which is why several high-profile players have moved to other hotels. American tennis youngster Coco Gauff, however, revealed that every female tennis player from Team USA, except her, has moved out of the Village.
Gauff, who was USA’s flagbearer along with LeBron James at the opening ceremony on Friday, showed a chaotic scene at the $1.6 billion Olympic Village the next day in her seven-second TikTok clip where female athletes could be seen doing their hair and makeup. She captioned the post with this: “10 girls, two bathrooms. #olympicvillage.” And when in the comment section a fan wrote that the players should just stay inside another hotel, Gauff replied that everyone from her team had already left it.
All the tennis girls moved to a hotel except me. So now just five girls, two bathrooms.Coco Gauff wrote
The 20-year-old also revealed that the rooms were meant for just eight athletes but 10 athletes were living in them. At the same time, due to the thin polyethylene mattresses, she had to borrow a mattress topper from the USA’s archery team. Like the female tennis players, LeBron James and other basketball players from the US are also not staying at the Olympic Village.
This video from Gauff also comes after fans expressed their discontent with the opening ceremony held along the River Seine. From rain ruining the four-hour show to a few performances the fans criticized, the most controversial being the drag queens’ parody of the Last Supper.
Coco Gauff set to play her first singles game today
Coco Gauff made her Olympics debut when she played doubles with Jessica Pegula on Saturday (July 27). The American pair locked horns with Australia’s Daria Saville and Ellen Perez, securing an easy win in straight sets 6-3, 6-1.
In the first round in singles, Gauff is set to face Australia’s 123rd-ranked Ajla Tomljanovic today (July 28). It will be their first encounter in their career. Before coming to Paris, Gauff participated at the Berlin Open which she lost after Pegula secured a straight-set win over her in the semifinals before winning the final by beating Russia’s Anna Kalinskaya in three sets.
Tomljanovic, on the other hand, played in the Palermo Ladies Open before the Olympics. She reached the Round of 16 where her compatriot Astra Sharma eliminated her in three sets.
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