The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris is now fully upon us following Friday’s Opening Ceremony. Tens of thousands of athletes are in France competing in one of the biggest events on the sports calendar.
As Bounding Into Sports previous reported, officials in France were prepared to hand out a ridiculous amount of condoms to make sure that safe sex was the name of the game.
We’ve seen this pop up in previous iterations of the Summer Olympics, with athletes housed together in the Olympic Village. Most recently, that played out with the 2020 version in Tokyo being dubbed a “hotbed for hookups.”
It seems as if officials in Paris are attempting to squash this as the 2024 games play out. That includes fitting residences with small beds made out of cardboard.
“Anti-sex beds have arrived in Paris ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games, with their materials and small size allegedly aimed at deterring athletes from getting kinky during the competition,” the NY Post noted this past spring. “The beds’ twin size means there’s no room for the competitors to sidle up together.”
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To be clear, officials have lifted the sex ban they had put in place during the 2020 games. They were held a year later due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Even at that point, there was concern over the Olympics in Japan being a super spreader.
We do have more information on this from Team USA rower Emily Delleman, who indicates that Tinder activity has been pretty much non-existent in Paris.
Good on Delleman for taking some of her free time to do the research for us.
This doesn’t mean athletes are not hooking up. They could very well be finding other ways to do their thing.
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