Inside the Paris Olympic Village: Track and field star Chari Hawkins reveals how athletes can get their nails done and take bakery classes between events - and shares the chocolate muffins that have become a viral hit

American way and section prima Chari Hawkins has revealed nan amenities afforded to Olympians competing successful this year's games successful Paris.

Hawkins, 33, told MailOnline that elite athletes surviving successful nan Olympic Village get to unrecorded nan precocious life successful betwixt events. 

Showing disconnected her nails, made up of a operation of nan American flag, nan Olympic rings, a golden medal, she said: 'The Olympians tin get their nails done, and they tin get their hairsbreadth cut.

'They person bakery classes, truthful you tin cook bread. You tin besides get a cappuccino and you tin people immoderate photograph you want connected it. 

'There's a meditation room, they person saunas. It's really nice.'

Hawkins, who studied astatine nan University of Bath successful 2018, besides shared her thoughts connected nan Village's cocoa muffins that went viral acknowledgment to a Norwegian swimmer's TikToks. 

'I spot them each day, and I'm like... nan muffins', she said pinch a longing sigh. 

The world first came to cognize astir nan legendary muffins aft Norwegian swimmer Henrik Christiansen, who is competing successful nan men’s 800m and 1500m freestyle, raved astir them connected TikTok. 

In 1 clip, a teammate was seen saying 'I consciousness for illustration you're conscionable present for nan cocoa muffins', earlier nan camera turns to show nan three-time Olympian going to municipality connected 1 of nan muffins.

In another, he was seen pulling muffins from a concealed drawer while his chemoreceptor is covered successful chocolate, while a 3rd video shows him saying: 'I HEREBY DECLARE MYSELF AS THE OLYMPIC MUFFIN MAN.'

But it's not each nosy and games astatine nan Paris Olympics. 

Parisians are still hesitant to return a dip successful nan Seine contempt nan monolithic €1billion clean-up cognition organised for nan Olympics, MailOnline has learned.

Locals said they still believed nan stream to beryllium 'dirty' and dismissed nan thought of a aquatics arsenic 'crazy s**t' erstwhile asked, amid concerns astir nan h2o value successful nan capital.

It came arsenic nan men's triathlon arena was postponed owed to mediocre h2o quality, aft tests successful nan stream 'did not supply capable guarantees' for nan arena to spell ahead.

While nan World Triathlon said nan h2o value had improved, it was forced to group nan arena backmost to Wednesday successful nan latest rustle to organisers aft an uneasy commencement to nan Games marred by mediocre upwind and disapproval complete nan opening ceremony.

France spent much than €1billion (£840,000,000) connected cleaning up nan stream successful mentation for nan Games, but locals stay unconvinced nan h2o is safe to swim.

MailOnline said pinch Shaka Ponk vocalist Frah successful nan French superior arsenic nan arena was group backmost complete concerns astir h2o quality.

Asked whether he would aquatics successful nan river, he said: 'No, it's crazy s**t.'

'I deliberation it's dirty.'

Asked what mightiness beryllium surviving successful nan river, a 2nd personification said: 'Everything which is soiled - rats surviving inside.'

He added that he would see swimming successful nan stream for a cardinal dollars.

Others were much convinced, showing religion successful nan efforts of nan section management to make nan stream safe to swim.

''I deliberation it's rather clean,' a 3rd personification told MailOnline.

'Pollution was not a immense attraction for Paris. Now it is.

'We person to beryllium happy for this. What nan metropolis did for its people.'

Paris has spent a mini luck trying to cleanable up nan stream moving done nan superior up of nan Olympics.

This included building an tremendous reservoir to seizure excess rainwater and support discarded from flowing into nan river.

Before nan renewal efforts, swimming successful nan Seine had been banned for a afloat period because of really soiled it was.

Pierre Rabadan, Deputy Mayor of Paris successful complaint of nan Olympics, heralded nan clean-up cognition astatine nan clip arsenic 'our publication to nan future'.

'When group spot athletes swimming successful nan Seine pinch nary wellness problems, they'll beryllium assured themselves to commencement going backmost successful nan Seine,' he said.