The Beds at the Beijing Olympic Village Are Guaranteed to Make Tokyo Athletes Jealous

There was definitely one athlete from final 12 months’s video games who was envious of Britcher and her excessive tech mattress: U.S. rugby participant Ilona Maher, who shared her hilarious response on TikTok.

“Your… Your mattress has an entire distant to it? It has modes?” Maher mentioned, getting progressively extra emotional as she spoke. “How massive is it? It seems to be fairly massive.”

“Our beds in Tokyo have been like, solely like that massive,” she mentioned, making a small gesture together with her thumb and forefinger. “And so they have been extremely flammable. And really stable. They have been very stable beds. My again harm like, every week after I began laying on them.”

Preventing again faux tears, Maher added, “However have enjoyable! That appears superior. That appears so cool.”

Again on the 2020 Summer season Olympics, there was frequent dialogue surrounding the so-called “cardboard beds” on the Village, which started after U.S. runner Paul Chelimo tweeted an image of the light-weight bedframes and mentioned that they may solely “face up to the burden of a single individual” as a part of a plan to keep away from “intimacy amongst athletes.” 

That thought course of was later debunked by Irish gymnast Rhys McClenaghan, who put the self-described “anti-sex” beds to the check by posting a video of himself gleefully leaping up and down on one. 

“Apparently they’re meant to interrupt at any sudden actions,” McClenaghan mentioned. When the mattress didn’t break, he declared, “It’s faux! Pretend information!”