Going back to Clarisse Agbégnénou, I'd like to know if she is a single mum? Does the child have a loving father (or other family member) who could bottle feed her Clarisse's expressed milk?
Also, forgive my ignorance, but is breastfeeding essential at two? (Or two and a half/three as she will be by the end of July.) I ask because the little girl is only breastfed at night anyway, it would seem, and the way Clarisse talks about this she emphasises the benefit to herself, rather than the child.
If there are single rooms, overnight stays could be managed, but from what I've heard, the athletes usually share rooms or even small dorms. It's not fair to inflict a cranky or a super-inquisitive toddler on another athlete who may have sleep problems or be in a very emotional state herself. Or she might secretly hate kids!
I'm reminded of a case with an Icelandic footballer who claimed unfair discrimination against her French club after she got pregnant and had a baby. I was right with her until she said she had had to insist that the child travelled to and from away games with her. This means a baby on a coach or aeroplane with the other players who are supposed to be recuperating from the match - the trip home is counted as recovery time. It's not fair. She has a husband, she is the main earner in their relationship and she could have left the little boy at home with her DH for away games. That's on average once or twice a week max for a top club. It's one thing for a mother or father to centre their own child but this Icelandic footballer was introducing her baby into a situation that it did not belong - work - to the possible detriment of her teammates. Emma Hayes (Chelsea manager) took her twins in a push chair to training, but I hope we can all see that that was different - most of it in the open air, relatively stress free.
Anyway, I think creches are the answer:
..officials have come under pressure to open a daytime facility for babies and toddler children within the village — enabling athletes who sleep there to spend time with their young children, according to supporters of the plan.
Costs to be borne by the IOC who have shedloads of cash so as not to disadvantage mothers from poorer countries.
I think having day passes for kids which are taken out of the national allocation could lead to some very nasty situations.
In practice, children will be allowed into the Olympic Village for daytime visits if they are issued with guest passes delivered by national delegations. But given that each delegation has a fixed number of passes ― France, for instance, will have about 60 a day ― there is likely to be tension if they are handed to children instead of, say, personal coaches, according to observers in Paris.