Olympic Athletes to Sleep On 'Anti-Sex' Cardboard Beds Amid COVID Pandemic
Olympic athletes are set to sleep on cardboard beds reportedly designed to collapse under the weight of two people to discourage sex amid the COVID pandemic.
Tokyo Olympic officials said they have set up 18,000 cardboard beds in the athletes' village to avoid sex amid the pandemic, Fox News reported. The officials earlier warned Olympic athletes to avoid two-person push-ups because of the COVID.
American distance runner Paul Chelimo tweeted that those beds installed will be made of cardboard in hopes of avoiding intimacy among Olympic athletes. Chelimo noted that he sees no problem for distance runners, adding that "even four of us can do."
Olympian and Irish gymnast Rhys Mcclenaghan said that they are perfectly sturdy despite the beds being made out of cardboard. Mcclenaghan could be seen jumping up and down on his bed in a video he posted on his Twitter, New York Post reported.
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Olympic Athletes Receiving Condoms
Olympic athletes have never flinched from hanky panky. However, Tokyo Olympic officials have warned it could result in trouble this year due to the ongoing global health crisis.
Olympic officials have been distributing condoms to the athletes as they have at every Olympic Games since 1988. This year, the officials have already handed out 160,000 condoms. But this was still far from the 450,000 condoms distributed in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
In a statement to Japan Today, the Tokyo Olympics Organizing Committee said the intent and goals in distributing the condom is for Olympic athletes to bring home to spread the message of safe sex. The Olympic officials noted that they wanted to promote and help raise awareness on safer sex.
Tokyo Olympics Amid the Pandemic
On Sunday, July 18, Tokyo Olympics organizers reported three new COVID cases among athletes and 10 new cases linked to Olympics' media, contractors, and other personnel.
On Saturday, July 17, officials reported 15 new COVID cases, including personnel, the first case of infection at the athletes' village, Reuters reported.
Meanwhile, two-thirds of people in Japan do not believe the country can host a safe and secure Olympics amid the pandemic based on a survey published by the Asahi newspaper. The survey was published four days before the opening ceremony in Tokyo, according to another Reuters report.
Sixty-eight percent of respondents expressed doubt on the ability of the Tokyo Olympics organizers to curb the spread of infections, while 55 percent said they opposed the Games to go ahead.
An International Olympic Committee member from South Korea had tested positive for the coronavirus after landing in Tokyo. Infection rates are going up among the general population of the capital, with 1,000 new cases for four consecutive days.
The British Olympic Association (BOA) confirmed that six athletes and two staff members from the athletics team had tested positive for COVID on their inbound flight, Yahoo! News reported. BOA noted that they were not from the Team GB delegation.
At present, Japan has a total of around 839,000 COVID cases, with 795,000 recoveries and 14,990 reported deaths.
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Written by: Mary Webber
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