Eco-friendly lodging in the Olympic Village has been the talk of the Paris Games, but Team USA won't be losing any sleep over them thanks to a quick solution.
Check out Sports Illustrated’s Daily Rings, our daily Olympics podcast from Mitch Goldich and Dan Gartland. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts arrived at the Olympic Village north of Paris on Monday. It took about 15 seconds for them to notice a problem: The mattresses felt like rocks.Help was already on the way.
The U.S. gymnastics team is just the latest squad to identify concerns about the accommodation at the Olympics, although many athletes admit it’s been better than what they feared when they first learned of France’s attempt to keep the enterprise as eco-friendly as possible by building beds from recycled cardboard and eschewing air conditioning.
Many athletes have taken to social media to give tours of the furniture, with British diver Tom Daley bouncing on one bed and Irish rugby players Jordan Conroy and Harry McNulty flinging themselves onto another. So far, the cardboard seems to have held up.
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