Olympian Ilona Maher jokes about finding her match at the Olympic Village: 'I'm here to find love'

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Olympian Ilona Maher jokes about finding her match at the Olympic Village: 'I'm here to find love'
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Olympian IIona Maher jokes about finding her match at the Olympic Village

A gold medal isn’t the only prized possession on Ilona Maher’s mind as she heads to Paris for the 2024 Olympics .

The US Women’s Rugby star joked she’s ready to find her love match as she resides with fellow athletes at the Olympic headquarters for the next few weeks.Olympian IIona Maher claimed in a TikTok video shared on Wednesday that she’s looking for love at the 2024 Olympics in Paris.In the video, which this still was taken from, the US Women’s Rugby star joked she’s hoping to cross paths with a potential match while staying with fellow athletes at the Olympic Village.

“It’s called the Olympic Village, this isn’t ‘Love Island,'” a woman interrupted from behind the camera, referring to the Netflix reality show about finding love. “Yeah, I guess if we wanna say that,” Maher added. “But I still wanna try to couple up early on. It is the early days but at the end of the day, I’m there to find love.”“I cannot wait to get into the Olympic Villa, it’s gonna be a crazy summer,” she said in a TikTok video.The athlete appeared to have swiftly found a contender as she wrote in the caption, “I got a text!!took to TikTok

“When a hot new bombshell enters the Olympic Villa,” the US springboard diver wrote. “Everyone here is gorgeous.”Maher’s pal in the background of the video interrupted her, saying, “No, you’re not, not love, you’re there to play rugby.”However, athletes’ beds in the village were built out of cardboard to allegedly avoid “intimacy among athletes” as USA runner Paul Chelimo previously claimed they couldn’t withhold sexual activity.

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