Police shot and killed a man wanted for domestic violence Friday night after a standoff that lasted for several hours.
The beds are made out of cardboard for sustainability purposes and will be recycled in France after the 2024 summer Olympics.In this Jan. 9, 2020, file photo, two sets of bedroom furniture, including cardboard beds, for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Villages are shown in a display room in Tokyo.are a little over a month away, which means athletes will soon get accustomed to their new living situations at the Olympic Village.
Ahead of the Tokyo Games, Irish gymnast Rhys McClenaghan tweeted a video in an attempt to debunk the claims about “anti-sex” beds. In the video, McClenaghan is jumping on one of the beds. The bed does not collapse as McClenaghan hops several times.The Olympic Village has a longstanding reputation for being an intimate place for athletes. To encourage safe sex, organizers typically make condoms available to athletes.
At the 2016 Rio De Janeiro Olympics, a reported 450,000 condoms were available to athletes. For the Tokyo Games, that number was much lower as the COVID-19 pandemic loomed over the event. Still, a reported 150,000 condoms were given to the more than 11,000 Olympic athletes.The Olympics runs video game competitions, but it’s not an official sport at the Summer Gamesteam works to separate fact from fiction so that you can understand what is true and false.
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