Strong complaints were voiced here today by various competitors in the European Maccabi games that the food and accommodations offered them were inadequate. All the teams are housed in a general youth hostel outside Copenhagen and live in large dormitories consisting of 30 to 40 beds each.
For technical reasons they cannot be served kosher meat in the hostels and this has upset many of them who need a full diet in order to sustain their strength. The main sufferers are the Israel athletes who have spent some three weeks on their journey here and many of them have lost considerable weight and appear to be tired and dejected.
However, the press was reassured today by Mr. Levitan, vice president of the Bar Kochba Club of Copenhagen that, during the past 24 hours the food diet has been increased. He has had no complaints on this from team leaders but the general impression is that the performances in general will be much lower than the expected standard because of this discontent.
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