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Tinder activity in the Olympic Village suggests measures put in place to prevent bed sharing at the 2024 Paris Olympics are working. A Team USA rower has taken to TikTok due to disappointment when searching the previously mentioned dating app.
A storyline of the Olympics being a ‘hotbed for hookups’ played out at the 2020 event in Tokyo as athletes dealt with life during a pandemic. An intimacy ban was implemented during those summer games, putting the narrative under a bit of a microscope.
That ban has since been lifted in Paris, though the goal of keeping athletes separated remains.
Under the guise of environmental friendliness, tiny cardboard beds have become the norm in the Village, offering both a lonely and uncomfortable sleeping arrangement for Olympians.
While the beds are sturdy enough to withstand the weight of multiple people, they are just so small.
These tiny beds… They’re so small. And they’re similar to the ones given to athletes at the rescheduled 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo but with some new threads on them. The New York Post is calling them ‘anti-sex beds’ and say they are aimed at deterring athletes from sharing beds with each other because (1) they are very small and (2) they beds are made out of cardboard.
Two days into the Games, the plan seems to be working.
Olympic Village Tinder is a ghost town.
Emily Delleman, a rower for Team USA, took to TikTok out of boredom following a failed attempt to recreate the “nostalgia” of the past dating app experience.
@happydelly Olympic Village Tinder #olympics #olympicvillage #Paris2024 #tinder ♬ original sound – Delly
After fine-tuning settings and location, Delleman could hardly find another Olympic soul on the app. It seems everyone is turning to “different forms of entertainment.”
The tiny beds are working!
That said, a number of athletes still aren’t getting sleep due to conditions in the village. Fishing net mattresses and a lack of A/C are at the root of the cause this year, though.
Those looking to for a good time will need to join the surfers out in Tahiti, where they’re living it up in the first-ever floating Olympic Village.
Athletes back in Paris will have to find another source of fun.