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The Paris Olympic Village has welcomed small cardboard beds ahead of this summer’s games, despite organizers previously lifting Tokyo’s privacy ban.
The games are famous for the sexual activity that takes place between athletes, as legendary American swimmer Ryan Lochte previously said. ESPN that “between 70 and 75 percent” of Olympic athletes are intimate during the games.
And although Paris organizers will provide athletes with 300,000 condoms, Olympic and Paralympic village director Laurent Michaud previously said News from heavenAthletes will be forced to sleep in the same small beds as in Tokyo.
The beds, made by manufacturer Airwave, are double-sized and made from cardboard frames, and Olympic organizers are focusing on sustainability.
However, Michaud expressed his hope that the athletes “feel very enthusiastic and comfortable” in the town.
Olympic athletes will have to sleep on these small cardboard beds during this summer’s games
The beds are the same ones used during the Tokyo games, which banned sex
“…It’s going to be a great place for them to share their moment,” he added.
However, some athletes like the distance runner. Pablo Chelimo They have previously claimed that the beds were designed to curb intimacy between athletes.
“The beds will be able to support the weight of a single person to avoid situations beyond sports,” Chelimo wrote ahead of the 2021 Tokyo games.
“I don’t see any problem for distance runners, even 4 of us can do it.”
Irish gymnast Rhys McClenaghan later shared a video of himself jumping on one of the beds, proving that they weren’t so flimsy after all.
Olympic athlete Rhys McClenagahn proved Olympic beds were tough in 2021 by jumping on a
However, while Tokyo organizers distributed condoms, it’s fair to say they weren’t exactly interested in athletes having sex in the Olympic village.
“Our intention and goal is not for athletes to use condoms in the Olympic Village, but to help raise awareness by taking them back to their own countries,” the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee told Japan Today.
Regarding the Olympic Games, the figure of 300,000 condoms distributed is more than in other years, but not the largest.
A whopping 450,000 were distributed ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympics.