Athletes have started ariving in Paris for the 2024 Summer Games and as they reach the Olympic village, the first order of business for them was to check out the anti-sex cardboard beds!
Australia’s Daria Saville and Ellen Perez ‘exercised’ a bit on the beds to test out its strength.
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Ireland’s Rhys McClenaghan jumed, ran and even did handstands on the bed.
“When I tested them last time, they withstood my testing. Maybe I wasn’t rigorous enough…” he said.
“Paris Olympics ‘Anti-sex beds’ debunked (again)” he wrote while sharing his video on Instagram.
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Great Britain’s Tom Daley called the beds “pretty sturdy” and shared a video on Instagram.
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Australia’s Tilly Kearns though complained that the beds were too stiff.
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Organisers have clairified that the beds made of cardboard in the athletes’ village have been chosen for their environmental credentials, not to prevent competitors having sex. The clarification came after fresh reports that the beds, manufactured by Japanese company Airweave and already used during the Tokyo 2020 Games, were to deter athletes from jumping under the covers together in the City of Love.
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The bed bases are made from recycled cardboard, but during a demonstration in July last year Airweave founder Motokuni Takaoka jumped on one of them and stressed that they “can support several people on top”.
The fully modular Airweave beds can be customised to accommodate long and large body sizes, with the mattresses — made out of resin fibre — available with different firmness levels.
After the Games, the bed frames will be recycled while the mattresses and pillows will be donated to schools or associations.
Athletes will sleep in single beds, two or three to a room, in the village, a newly built complex close to the main athletics stadium in a northern suburb of the capital.
(With inputs from Agencies)
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