Fake news is already spreading through the Olympics.
... [+]The 2021 Tokyo Olympics doesn’t just have to contend with the coronavirus - the event has already been hit with a wave of fake news.that this year’s Olympic competitors are being asked to sleep on absurdly flimsy cardboard beds, supposedly designed to prevent casual sex .
The cardboard beds, it has been claimed, will break apart at the slightest provocation, designed to take the weight of only a solitary individual, or risk collapsing into pieces. As amusing as it is to imagine some grim-faced Olympic official ordering a fleet of flimsy beds, unable to conceive of a sexual activity that doesn’t require a sturdy mattress, the entire story is a complete fabrication., inspired by the concerns of coronavirus spread among athletes.
The cardboard beds, however, are very real - but are not designed to collapse at the weight of intimacy. The beds were planned for the Tokyo Olympics as a recycling initiative, long before the spread of COVID-19.
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