The ever-worsening disaster that is the Paris Olympic Village

The Olympic Village at the Paris Games has already made several headlines for its unpopular amenities.

Uncomfortable mattresses and lack of air conditioning prompted some athletes to bring their own, and food shortages resulted in emergency chefs being flown in by delegations to avoid having to ration meals.

Despite Paris organizers' hope of achieving a fully sustainable Games, something that would've been an admirable feat of environmental engineering, the problems just keep stacking up at the athletes' lodgings.

Australian pundits are blaming the Olympic Village's "whole eco-friendly, carbon footprint, vegan-first mentality rather than [prioritizing] high performance" on the lack of world record swims by their athletes.

And now a potential COVID-19 outbreak may be working its way through the pieds-a-terre with five Australian water polo players and one British swimmer testing positive within the last few days, according to officials.

The Paris Games are considered the first post-pandemic Olympics but with COVID still being present worldwide, there are no strict protocols to mitigate the spread.

With the list of issues ever-growing, athletes are leaving the Olympic Village due to the suboptimal conditions — choosing instead to find more homely quarters at nearby hotels.

Whether the situation at the Olympic Village is actually affecting athletes' performances will be difficult to definitively prove but still, it threatens to overshadow the legacy of the Paris Games.