You may be wondering why we’re out here writing about beds at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, which are set to begin later this week with the Opening Ceremony.
Let’s go back to the previous Games in Tokyo in 2021 to explain: It was then that we found out that the frames for the beds the athletes would sleep on were made of very sturdy cardboard — the myth was that they were to prevent, er, athlete intimacy, but that was debunked.
So would that be true in Beijing (the cardboard part, not the debunked myth)?
We have an answer, courtesy of Team USA luge athlete Summer Britcher: