Athletes are checking in at the Paris Olympics and finding their accommodation leaves almost nothing to be desired
s hundreds of athletes gather in Paris from around the world for more than two weeks of unrivalled sporting prowess there is one question that may be bothering them: why do Olympians have to sleep on anti-sex cardboard beds?
Thanks to athletes’ social media profiles, it is possible to see behind the scenes at the Olympic Village and debunk some of the myths about cardboard beds, food and condoms.Take Tom Daley, Team GB’s diving star who is embarking on his fifth Olympics and must have witnessed it all before, but even he is excited to show everyone how Paris 2024 organisers have implemented their take on the cardboard bed following on from their introduction at Tokyo 2020.
The Irish gymnast Rhys McClenaghan was the first to debunk claims at the last Olympics that the cardboard beds were brought in to “avoid intimacy among athletes”. In Paris, the pommel horse specialist performedThe Australian tennis players Daria Saville and Ellen Perez alsoto show eight different ways of testing the durability of the beds.
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