Winter Olympics athlete reveals what accommodation is like following 'anti-sex' beds controversy
Topics: News, World News, Olympics, Sport, Sex and Relationships
Kit Roberts
Featured Image Credit: TikTok/@phebebekker
Topics: News, World News, Olympics, Sport, Sex and Relationships
An athlete at the Winter Olympics has updated social media about the state of accommodation at the winter Olympics following that 'anti-sex bed' saga.
It's safe to say we all probably remember how the 2024 Olympics in Paris used cardboard beds for the athletes staying in the Olympic Village.
This was supposedly in an attempt to deter them from having sex, as the Olympic-sized condom handouts revealed if you pack a load of single people at the very peak of human physical capability into an enclosed village for several weeks, then some of them might want to pass some of their downtime together.
The Olympic committee refuted this, claiming the cardboard beds were purely for sustainability, which makes sense as it seems unlikely that the most physically and athletically gifted people in the world wouldn't be able to figure out a way to do the deed without a bed.
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But with the Winter Olympics now underway in Italy, what about the state of the accommodation this year?
Well, Team GB ice dancer Phebe Bekker took to her page @phebebekker to give her 28k TikTok followers the lowdown on her accommodation for this year's games in Milan.
And it seems that athletes have seen an upgrade in the material their beds have been made from.
Introducing her video, Phebe said she'd be investigating the question everyone was asking - whether the beds were made out of cardboard again.
"Are the beds cardboard?" she asked as she approached the bed, before giving it a resonant-sounding knock.
Confirming that they were in fact proper, sturdy, bed frames, she said: "We're looking good. That's a mattress."
She added: "You heard it here first, there are no cardboard beds, well as far as I know."
However, speaking to UNILAD, she explained that this is not actually removing the supposed anti-sex beds.
Honestly, minds out of the gutter, please.
Phebe said that it's actually because the Olympic Committee has already considered a further use for the accommodation after the Olympics are over.
Once the games are finished and the athletes depart, the accommodation will become the largest student accommodation in Italy, she explained.
Bearing that in mind, it makes more sense to have furniture that can be reused after the games are done, rather than having to recycle cardboard beds afterwards.
Phebe will be taking to the ice to represent Team GB in the ice dancing alongside her partner, James Hernandez.
Ice dancing is a subset of figure skating that includes elements of ballroom dancing, with competitors taking to the ice as a couple.