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The beds at the Tokyo Olympic village will be made of cardboard that organizers say is stronger than wood and can be recycled later
The mattresses will not be made of cardboard. The cardboard frames will be recycled into paper prod…
Scott Davis
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The first case of COVID-19 was reported at Tokyo's Olympic village, raising concerns for upcoming games
1 in 3 people in Japan - of whom only around 20% are fully vaccinated - believes the games should b…
Bethany Dawson
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There will be Indian food on the Rio Olympics menu, says the Sports Ministry
The Sports Ministry today said that some athletes had requested for Indian food in the Games villag…
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The Olympic Village will be stocked with 110,000 condoms, or 37 per athlete - and it could be because of Tinder
Condoms were first publicly distributed at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Since then, the stockpiling ha…
Alan Dawson
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Olympic athletes are roasting the Olympic Village accommodations on TikTok: 'The bed sucks'
Tennis star Coco Gauff said that 10 girls have to share 2 bathrooms at the Olympic Village in Paris…
Lloyd Lee
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McDonald's will once again give away free fast food to athletes at the Winter Olympics
The more stunning of the two is what the company described as a "hamburger meal"-shaped restaurant,…
Kate Taylor
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When they aren't competing, Olympians are all over Tinder in Rio
"Many of the athletes prefer to meet other athletes on Tinder and other dating apps because that's …
Emmett Knowlton
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Olympics 2021: Three athletes test positive for COVID-19, two of them were staying at Olympic village
The organisers did not specify whether the two infected athletes staying at the village w…
PTI
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What The Abandoned Venues From The Athens Olympics Look Like 10 Years Later
Greece spent an estimated $11 billion on the games, Reuters reports. They built all the expensive, …
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The Beds In The Olympic Village Are Extremely Small
Bobsledder Elana Meyers took some pictures yesterday. The first room is in village in the "coastal …
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Athletes say being at the Olympics is 'like summer camp' and 'going to Disneyland' all at once
"I was overwhelmed," Stewart told INSIDER. "It was like going to Disneyland, and I got exhausted ph…
Caroline Praderio
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A non-athlete resident tests positive for COVID-19 at Tokyo Olympic Village, say organisers
Officials said it was not an athlete with the the Games opening in just under a week on July 23.…
PTI
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People are claiming that Coca-Cola banned coffee at the Olympics
"There are several coffee machines provided by ROCOG (the Rio 2016 Organizing Committee for the Oly…
Hayley Peterson
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The International Olympic Committee is banning athletes from making political gestures at the 2020 Games in Tokyo, and one US hammer thrower says it's a 'form of control'
"We believe that the example we set by competing with the world's best while living in harmony in t…
Kelly McLaughlin
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The Tokyo Olympics are the most shambolic in decades, and there's now a chance they'll get cancelled after they've started
A COVID outbreak in the Olympic Village is just one of the many problems facing a games which has e…
Sam Cooper
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450,000 condoms will be handed out in Olympic Village - 3 times more than the last games
Part of the reason for the increase is that - for the first time - 100,000 female condoms will be d…
Caroline Praderio
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Olympic Snowboarder Is Bummed Her Competitors Aren't Using Tinder In Sochi
Tinder was launched after the last cycle of Olympic Games, but Grindr (a dating app for gay men) ma…
Caroline Moss
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Olympic athletes are upset that there's no Pokemon Go in Rio
The hit smartphone game is now available in 30 countries, but not in Brazil, where the Olympics beg…
Caroline Praderio
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China turns Winter Olympics villages into quarantine camps to stamp out new COVID-19 outbreaks, report says
China has forced hundreds who came in contact with the virus to quarantine in accommodation built f…