Norway team's chefs ordered 15,000 eggs instead of the 1,500 they wanted at this month's Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
You can't make an omelette without cracking eggs- but what if you had too many eggs on your hands.
Chefs with the Norwegian Winter Olympic team found themselves with thousands of unwanted eggs after what they describe as an error while ordering for their hungry athletes from their South Korean base.
After taking receipt of 15,000 eggs instead of the 1,500 they wanted at this month's Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Norwegian chef de mission Tore Ovrebo struggled to suggest what they will do with the delivery. However, he did not rule out consuming them.
If they decide to do that, their registered 121-strong delegation of athletes and officials would get plenty of protein, eating 124 eggs each.
The chefs, who are catering for their country’s 109 competitors at the Pyeongchang games, ordered 15,000 eggs to be delivered to their kitchen instead of 1,500 needed.
"The eggs were more like a misunderstanding than something that we needed, so it was an extra zero on the order, so 1,500 to 15,000," Ovrebo said with a rueful laugh. "They will probably use them I guess and I don't know, maybe the people that supplied us with them will take them back I don't know. It's not a big issue."
Norway are hoping for at least 30 medals in these games. The tally will surpass the country's current record of 26 medals, set in 1994 at Lillehammer, Norway, and equaled at the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia. Despite a population of just 5.2 million people, the Nordic country has often featured in the top three nations at the Winter Olympics, last ranking first at the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City in the United States with 13 gold medals. In Sochi, only Russia won more medals than Norway with 33 medals in total.
(With Reuters Input)
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