Not everyone in Milan is loving the Olympic experience — especially when it comes to the food.
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Gleb Smolkin, a figure skater repping Georgia (the country, not the SEC), is fed up with the carb-heavy cuisine at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Literally.
"In the village, we haven't found any Russian or Georgian cuisine, nothing of the kind," Smolkin said, per Italian outlet Fanpage. "The food here is European and, for now, quite monotonous. Pasta is already starting to make my stomach churn."
Smolkin, 26, is paired with his wife Diana Davis, and the two are skating for Georgia after previously competing under the Russian flag. But it seems the only thing spinning faster than their routines is his appetite for something that isn't fettuccine.
Olympic food boss Elisabetta Salvadori responded like a true Italian grandmother sick of being judged. "Nobody is obliged to eat pasta," she said. "There are always potatoes, rice and bread."
So... more carbs.
Meanwhile, Dutch speed skating star Jutta Leerdam (aka Jake Paul's girlfriend) is crushing pasta bowls like she's carb-loading for the apocalypse.
"I've been eating that pasta here in Italy and they work," Leerdam said after taking gold in the women's 1,000m.
Maybe Smolkin just needed to twirl his way to the pizza station. Or the rice line. Or literally anything that isn't penne.
