Editor’s Note: In an earlier version of this article, The Post reported that the Olympic beds were specifically made to be sex resistant to hinder the spread of COVID-19, an assertion that was later determined to be inaccurate. This story has since been updated to reflect the changes.
The world’s best sports competitors are set to spend their nights on cardboard beds — which, according to one athlete, were allegedly designed to collapse under the weight of fornicators to discourage sex.
Olympic officials have set up 18,000 of the cardboard beds in the notoriously sex-crazed athletes’ village, according to Dezeen magazine.
“Beds to be installed in Tokyo Olympic Village will be made of cardboard, this is aimed at avoiding intimacy among athletes,” American distance runner Paul Chelimo tweeted.
“Beds will be able to withstand the weight of a single person to avoid situations beyond sports,” Chelimo cracked. “I see no problem for distance runners, even 4 of us can do.”
But another Olympian, Irish gymnast Rhys McClenaghan, said in a video posted to his Twitter account that although the beds are made out cardboard, they’re perfectly sturdy.
In the video, McClenaghan jumps up and down on his bed to illustrate how the furniture doesn’t crumble under his weight.
The 100 percent recyclable cardboard beds were designed by the Japanese company Airweave.
But officials are apparently aware it’s going to take a lot to keep players out of the pole position.
They are distributing a cache of condoms to the athletes, as they have at every Olympic Games since 1988. This year, the condom tally is 160,000. Still, that’s a far cry from the 450,000 doled out for the last Summer Olympics, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2016.
This year, Olympic officials insist the condoms are so athletes bring them home to spread the message of safe sex.
“Our intent and goal is not for athletes to use the condoms at the Olympic Village, but to help with awareness by taking them back to their own countries,” the Tokyo Olympics Organizing Committee said in a statement to Japan Today.
