A female athlete has revealed the Paris Olympic Village isn’t really the hotspot for gold medal hook-ups that it’s made out to be in pop culture.
Emily Delleman, an Olympic rower for Team USA, posted a video on TikTok about her experience as a single athlete at the games, and how the dating apps are a ghost town despite a village full of the best competitors in the world.
‘So far, most things have exceeded my expectations – the food, the vibes, the raw ambiance, the fits… everything but this one thing,’ said Delleman.
Delleman said after recovering from one of her practices, she was relaxing in the infamous ‘anti-sex’ cardboard beds, when she saw a single woman on TikTok encouraging others to change their location on Tinder to the Olympic village to match with hunky athletes.
Having not been on Tinder in years, Delleman said the dating app was already ‘hyping up’ the potential to match with potential gold medalist hotties.
Emily Delleman, an an Olympic rower for Team USA, posted a video on TikTok about her experience as a single athlete at the games
Delleman said after recovering from one of her practices, she was relaxing in the infamous ‘anti-sex’ cardboard beds, when she saw a single woman on TikTok encouraging others to change their location on Tinder to the Olympic village to match with hunky athletes
‘I was getting excited, the expectations were rising,’ she said, as she detailed how she decked out her profile to show off her athletic prowess as a competitor in this year’s game.
But when she started to scroll, she said there were barely other athletes on the app.
‘I started scrolling and scrolling and I’m not seeing any Olympians, I was like, “OK, my settings my (location) setting must be weird,”‘ she said, even though she narrowed down her location to a one mile radius of the Olympic village.
‘So far, I think I’ve seen a total of two other Olympians,’ she continued. ‘Don’t get me wrong. You Parisian men are beautiful… but I went in with the expectations of finding some of my future plotlines.’
The Olympics get underway on Friday night in the City of Lights but organizers have reportedly attempted to discourage sexual activity between athletes during the Games.
It is common knowledge that in past Olympics that some athletes engaged in sexual relations, with reports claiming that 200,000 condoms will be made available to them by Durex over the next three weeks.
Despite Olympic organizers emphasizing the cardboard beds as a symbol of sustainability, the focus has shifted towards the athletes’ experiences and the vibrant social scene in the Olympic village.
Having not been on Tinder in years, Delleman said the dating app was already ‘hyping up’ the potential to match with potential gold medalist hotties, but she said she’s barely seen any athletes on the app
Outspoken athletes sharing their stories have only amplified the buzz surrounding the games’ sex culture.
For example, Irish gymnast Rhys McClenaghan demonstrated that the bed frames were a lot sturdier than advertised.
In an Instagram video, the pummel horse star said: ‘I ’m at the Paris Olympic games and they once again have these cardboard ‘anti-sex beds’.
‘When I tested them the last time, they withstood my testing. Maybe I wasn’t rigorous enough, though.’
The 25-year-old then put the bed through a test by jumping around on it, performing handstands and front flips.
Despite the extra weight he was putting on the bed by doing this, the frame didn’t budge.
McClenaghan concluded: ‘No, they pass the test. It’s fake, it’s fake news!’
Irish gymnast Rhys McClenaghan has tested out the sturdiness of the Olympic ‘anti-sex beds’
Team GB diving icon Tom Daley previously tested out the beds, in a video uploaded on TikTok.
After sharing some close-up shots of the bed’s frame, Daley, 30, then began to jump up and down on top of his mattress, while saying: ‘As you can see, they are pretty sturdy.’
Israeli baseball player Ben Wanger also posted a video to TikTok of himself jumping on the bed without breaking it.
Wanger later deleted his video but in it he had said: ‘We actually enjoy sleeping on these beds, and think they are a great and sustainable option for future Olympics.’
However, the cardboard beds have not been proven to be popular among all athletes.
Australian water polo player Tilly Kearns and team-mate Gabi Palm are seemingly less impressed.
‘Already had a massage to undo the damage,’ Kearns moaned via social media.
Kearns also uploaded a video, which began with her saying: ‘Night one on the cardboard beds.’
Palm was heard in the background saying: ‘My back is about to fall off.’
Trying to adjust the bed, Kearns then added: ‘It’s actually rock solid. You can kind of move it, apparently there is a softer side.’
After flipping the mattress, a disappointed Kearns grumbled: ‘That was the soft side.’
McClenaghan will hope to leave Paris with a first Olympic medal and stands a good chance after winning two world championships, three European championships and a Commonwealth Games champion on the pommel horse.
