Food meant for Olympic 2020 athletes donated to Colorado food banks

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Colorado residents don’t have to train like premier athletes to eat like them.

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The Olympics in Tokyo have been postponed until July, 2021 due to the coronavirus health crisis, causing a mass surplus of food that was meant to feed the athletes at Colorado’s Olympic Training Center, KKTV reported.

A massive donation of food was made to Colorado food banks after the Olympic games were postponed until 2021. (iStock)

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The nearly $125,000 worth of food, weighing around one ton, will instead be donated to food banks in all 31 counties of southern Colorado, the outlet reported. Food will be allocated depending on county population size.

The shipment was dropped off at Care and Share Food Bank, which is dispersing the donation to other food banks in need in the state.

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“They, thankfully, made a delightful phone call for us to receive and said, ‘Hey, we have some food. Would you like it?’ And we said of course,” said Shannon Brice, the Chief Operating Officer of Care and Share, to KKTV.

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As of Tuesday, Colorado had 150 death from the novel coronavirus. In the U.S., all 50 states plus the District of Columbia have reported confirmed cases of COVID-19, tallying over 368,449 illnesses and at least 10,993 deaths.