It’s not new, but it still causes surprise. As happened in Tokyo three years ago, cardboard beds of the Olympic Village generated a sensation and diverse opinions among the athletes who began to arrive to participate in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Located in the Saint-Denis district, in the so-called Cité du Cinema – a megaproject that failed and which has now been reused to give life to the heart of the Games before being converted in the near future into 2,800 houses -, in some of the departments of the 82 buildings that make up the Olympic city there are beds made with recyclable materials in which athletes can choose the mattress on which to sleep.
The rooms have beds 90 centimeters wide and two meters longalthough they adapt to the needs of certain larger athletes, such as judokas or basketball players.
Organizers They denied that these cardboard beds are deterrents to having sex for their supposed fragility, a rumor that also spread in the last Tokyo Games, when they were called “anti-sex.”
As in those Games, in the Paris Games the beds have a bed base that uses pieces of cardboard, in addition to a mattress divided into three blocks of different levels of firmness (to be chosen by each user) and made from resin fibers used in some fishing nets.
To verify the solidity, a representative of the company that designed these beds, the Japanese Airweave, jumped on the mattress: “Look at the jumps I do and I weigh 80 kilos”.
Despite this, videos of athletes showing their beds multiply on social networks, where many users were surprised because they are made of cardboard.
Others, like Argentina Fernanda Russo, representative in shooting, used his Instagram account, but to reflect that there is a traditional bed in his room. “Spoiler: my bed is not cardboard,” she joked.