Massive water leak in Finland’s Winter Olympics athlete quarters adds to organisers’ woes

They’ve put up with questionable food options and demoralising COVID-19 protocols.

Now some Winter Olympians in Beijing have had to deal with another challenge in the athletes villages - an unwanted indoor water feature.

You can watch vision of the athlete’s village flooding in the video above

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The Finnish quarters were flooded this week when water came gushing through ceiling light fixtures and sprinklers, according to Instagram videos posted by cross-country skier Katri Lylynpera.

She wrote in the posts, “help”, also describing the the leak as a “waterfall”.

Lylynpera also pictured several PPE-clad workers attempting to fix the issue and there were some unverified suggestions on social media that officials had urged her to remove the damaging photos from her profiles.

It’s one of the most recent embarrassments for Beijing 2022 organisers.

At a press conference on Saturday, officials were questioned about reports that Korean officials have been supplying food to their athletes because of dissatisfaction with what’s being provided in the athletes villages.

That has followed a series of complaints including from German and Russian team members about the food situation.

Shen Qianfan, the organising committee’s Olympic Village boss, admitted it’s had been a learning experience but pointed to athletes’ specific dietary needs.

“Before we started our work for the villages, we didn’t have full understanding of the complexity of this work, because athletes’ dieting habits may be different from the public,” he said at the press conference, according to a translation.

“Sometimes we joke among ourselves that they eat with calculators in their