{"id":596980,"date":"2021-07-19T13:36:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T17:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=596980"},"modified":"2021-07-19T13:36:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T17:36:13","slug":"olympic-athletes-set-to-sleep-on-allegedly-anti-sex-cardboard-beds-at-tokyo-games-athlete-debunks-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/olympic-athletes-set-to-sleep-on-allegedly-anti-sex-cardboard-beds-at-tokyo-games-athlete-debunks-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Athletes Set To Sleep On Allegedly \u2018Anti-Sex\u2019 Cardboard Beds At Tokyo Games; Athlete Debunks Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Folympic-athletes-set-to-sleep-on-allegedly-anti-sex-cardboard-beds-at-tokyo-games-athlete-debunks-claim%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=596980&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/bed-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Although it\u2019s not an official event, sex looms large at every Olympics (perhaps all the way back to the Greek days). The Olympic Village is notorious for sexual escapades among the athletes, and every time the event is held, officials distribute hundreds of thousands of condoms.<\/p>\n<p>But maybe not this time around in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s best athletes will sleep on cardboard beds, \u201callegedly designed to collapse under the weight of fornicators to discourage sex amid COVID-19,\u201d The New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/07\/18\/athletes-to-sleep-on-anti-sex-cardboard-beds-at-olympic-games\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOlympic officials \u2014 who already warned 2021 Games participants to avoid two-person push-ups because of the coronavirus \u2014 have set up 18,000 of the cardboard beds in the notoriously sex-crazed athletes\u2019 village, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2021\/07\/11\/cardboard-beds-modular-mattresses-airweave-tokyo-2020-olympics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a> to Dezeen magazine,\u201d the Post wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The bed frames are constructed of cardboard and the mattresses are made from polyethylene fibers that are easy to recycle. \u201cThe sleeping equipment had to align with the&nbsp;Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games\u2019 sustainability plan, which aims to deliver a more sustainable event and showcase innovative concepts and solutions that will have a legacy after the Games,\u201d the magazine wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe concept was to make a lightweight, easy-to-assemble mattress and meet the Games\u2019 Sustainability Plan,\u201d Airweave, the Japanese manufacturer of the beds, told Dezeen.<\/p>\n<p>But one athlete said there\u2019s another reason. \u201cBeds to be installed in Tokyo Olympic Village will be made of cardboard, this is aimed at avoiding intimacy among athletes,\u201d American distance runner Paul Chelimo&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Paulchelimo\/status\/1416240846039523331\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweeted<\/a>. \u201cBeds will be able to withstand the weight of a single person to avoid situations beyond sports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chelimo, though, said it might not affect his fellow runners. \u201cI see no problem for distance runners, even 4 of us can do.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"13.401639344262\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Beds to be installed in Tokyo Olympic Village will be made of cardboard, this is aimed at avoiding intimacy among athletes<\/p>\n<p>Beds will be able to withstand the weight of a single person to avoid situations beyond sports.<\/p>\n<p>I see no problem for distance runners,even 4 of us can do\ud83d\ude02 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J45wlxgtSo\">pic.twitter.com\/J45wlxgtSo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paul Chelimo\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83e\udd48\ud83e\udd49 (@Paulchelimo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Paulchelimo\/status\/1416240846039523331?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yet another athlete, Irish gymnast Rhys McClenaghan, posted a video showing the beds are plenty sturdy, jumping up and down on one and declaring the reports they\u2019re anti-sex as \u201cfake news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn today\u2019s episode of fake news at the Olympic Games, the beds are meant to be anti-sex. They\u2019re made out of cardboard, yes, but apparently, they\u2019re meant to break at any sudden movements,\u201d McClenaghan says. \u201cIt\u2019s fake, fake news!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The official Olympics Twitter account thanked McClenaghan for \u201cdebunking the myth,\u201d noting \u201cthe sustainable cardboard beds are sturdy.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.9023255813953\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thanks for debunking the myth.\ud83d\ude02You heard it first from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamIreland?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TeamIreland<\/a> gymnast <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/McClenaghanRhys?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@McClenaghanRhys<\/a>  \u2013 the sustainable cardboard beds are sturdy! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tokyo2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tokyo2020<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lsXbQokGVE\">https:\/\/t.co\/lsXbQokGVE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Olympics (@Olympics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Olympics\/status\/1416938478701408256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Either way, Olympic officials are handing out some 160,000, far less than the 450,000 distributed for the last Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>But Japanese officials said they\u2019re not encouraging sex among the athletes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur intent and goal is not for athletes to use the condoms at the Olympic Village, but to help with awareness by taking them back to their own countries,\u201d the Tokyo Olympics Organizing Committee said in a statement to Japan Today.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a third athlete at the Olympic Village in Tokyo has tested positive for COVID-19, The Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/sports-2020-tokyo-olympics-tokyo-soccer-coronavirus-pandemic-1ae8177bef505404d4cc495fbc8b2c93\">reported<\/a>. The games open on Friday, but no fans will be allowed in most events, including at the opening ceremony. Tokyo remains in a state of emergency as Japanese authorities said just 21.6% of the nation\u2019s 126 million population is fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although it\u2019s not an official event, sex looms large at every Olympics (perhaps all the way back to the Greek days). 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