{"id":1423,"date":"2024-08-18T04:24:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T04:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parispresse.com\/i-hated-my-time-at-the-paris-olympics-no-ac-rats-hard-water-rash\/"},"modified":"2024-08-18T04:24:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T04:24:07","slug":"i-hated-my-time-at-the-paris-olympics-no-ac-rats-hard-water-rash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parispresse.com\/en\/i-hated-my-time-at-the-paris-olympics-no-ac-rats-hard-water-rash\/","title":{"rendered":"I Hated My Time at the Paris Olympics \u2014 No AC, Rats, Hard Water Rash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>I worked as an event organizer and writer at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics for a nonprofit sports media organization (separate from my journalism day job)<strong> <\/strong>and returned in that same capacity for <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/category\/olympics\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" rel=\"noopener\">the Paris Olympics<\/a> this summer. Working at the Olympics is always a unique experience.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Tokyo Olympics were <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/cost-olympics-tokyo-2020-summer-2021-2\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" rel=\"noopener\">pushed to 2021<\/a>, with tight restrictions in place.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"premium\">No spectators were allowed and only a limited number of media professionals and necessary personnel were present. Surprisingly, it was an amazing experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"premium\">I <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/tokyo-2020-olympians-covid-rules-protocols-2021-4\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" rel=\"noopener\">spent days quarantining<\/a> before I could leave my hotel&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/paris-olympics-awful-surprises-reporter-2024-8\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I worked as an event organizer and writer at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics for a nonprofit sports media organization (separate from my journalism day job) and returned in that same capacity for the Paris Olympics this summer. Working at the Olympics is always a unique experience. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Tokyo Olympics were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parispresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parispresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parispresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parispresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parispresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/parispresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parispresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parispresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parispresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}