It wasn’t a great week for Australian badminton player Sawan Serasinghe. After he and his teammate lost to a Chinese Taipei team in the final showdown in Rio, he said goodbye to the 2016 Olympics (and his heretofore impressive abs) in a very American way: by choking out his emotions with junk food. The losing Olympian pounds down 8,000 calories…basically, 4 days of food for regular people. His place of choice? McDonalds.
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Serasinghe’s caloric revenge consisted of six burgers, six large fries, 40 chicken nuggets and six brownies. The Telegraph pegs the dainty meal at more than 8,000 calories.
Fortunately for Serasinghe, he didn’t have to exert too much of his digestive energy finding this mess; McDonald’s is an Olympic sponsor with an outlet in the Olympic Village, where athletes eat for free.
“Now it’s time to eat some junk food after months of eating clean!” his, as of this writing, most recent Instagram post reads.
That update was two days ago. Should someone send help to the losing Olympian pounds down 8,000 calories.
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Sawan Serasinghe is a former badminton player from Australia. He won seven Oceania Championships titles, five in the men’s doubles and two in the mixed doubles. Serasinghe competed in the men’s doubles event at the 2016 Summer Olympics alongside Matthew Chau.
Serasinghe started playing badminton since the age of five, he was born in Galle, Sri Lanka, and moved to Australia when he was 11-years-old. He trains at the National Training Centre in Melbourne, and took out back-to-back Oceania Championships titles with Chau in 2015 and 2016. The 22-year-old also won the 2014 Sydney International Challenge mixed doubles with Setyana Mapasa, against some of the best players in the world. The Melburnian’s first international experience was at the 2013 Australian Youth Olympic Festival where he competed in the men’s doubles with Chau and also took the court in the men’s singles competition.
Off the court, Serasinghe holds a Bachelor of Business Information Systems degree from Monash University.
