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Photo Of The Day: The Foodie Games

The athletes' dining room in the Olympic village is a food court like no other, offering the world's elite athletes healthy, hearty food and fuel, 24 hours a day — and doing it the Slow Food way.

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(AP) — In this Tuesday July 31, 2012 photo, Olympic athletes queue up at the McDonalds inside the dining hall at the Olympic Village in London.

The athletes' dining room in the Olympic village is a food court like no other, offering the world's elite athletes healthy, hearty food and fuel, 24 hours a day — and doing it the Slow Food way. And yet, off in the back corner of the dining room, next to the coffee bar that's disproportionately populated by Italians queuing up for their morning espresso, lurks McDonald's and its Sausage & Egg McMuffins. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)