Plush Beijing Olympics beds put Tokyo’s cardboard mattresses to shame

She revealed the “comfy” reality.

US luge athlete Summer season Britcher undoubtedly made summer time 2020 Olympians — who infamously slept on cardboard in Tokyo — jealous after revealing that the beds on the 2022 Winter Olympics are apparently match for a queen. The 27-year-old competitor detailed the luxuriant sleeping lodging in a TikTok video with over 181,200 likes.

Addressing a fan question on the boudoirs in Beijing’s Olympic village, Britcher exclaimed: “I'm so excited you requested this query as a result of I've one thing unimaginable to share.

“As a result of not solely can we not have cardboard beds right here, nevertheless it’s as if the Beijing organizing committee stated, ‘How can we simply completely only one up Tokyo?'” the Baltimore native gushed.

Then, to exhibit the slumber pad’s lavishness, Britcher panned to a shot of the mattress’s distant, which confirmed that its angle may very well be adjusted for max consolation a la an airplane seat.

If that wasn’t sufficient to rub salt in the summertime Olympians’ wounds, the lounging luger filmed herself snuggled underneath the covers of her plush sleep sack.

“I’m in Zero-G mode [neutral sleep position] now. It’s phenomenal,” she purred.

Britcher demonstrates the mattress remote.
Britcher demonstrates the mattress distant.
Courtesy of @summerbritcher

For sure, Britcher’s demo despatched waves of envy throughout “OlympicTok.”

“Me watching this as a Tokyo athlete remembering how uncomfy the cardboard beds have been,” lamented Paralympian Emma Schieck, who gained a gold medal in sitting volleyball on the 2020 video games.

“I’m crying,” seconded group USA weightlifter Mattie Rogers, who additionally competed in Tokyo over the summer time.

Staff USA’s official TikTok deal with additionally chimed in, commenting, “Ooh that is good.”

Envious US ladies’s rugby participant Ilona Maher even shared a hilarious response vid to Britcher’s braggadocious demonstration.

“Your … Your mattress has a complete distant to it? It has modes?” the incredulous gal sputtered on digital camera, whereas getting exponentially extra jealous with every phrase. “How huge is it? It appears to be like fairly huge.”

One of the lavish slumber pads at the Beijing Olympic village.
One of many lavish slumber pads on the Beijing Olympic village.
Zoya Rusinova/TASS

The Olympian additionally joked how her meager mattresses have been minuscule, “excessive flammable” and so strong that “my again damage like, per week after I began laying on them.”

“However have enjoyable! That appears superior,” added Maher whereas choking again mock tears.

She was referring to the minimalist cardboard lodging in Tokyo in 2020, which have been reportedly applied to curb the unfold of COVID-19 by stopping famously frisky Olympic athletes from making whoopie.

Organizers reportedly believed that flimsy frames may solely face up to the burden of 1 particular person and have been due to this fact unimaginable to have intercourse on.

Summer olympian Ilona Maher expressed her envy in a hilarious reaction video.
Summer season Olympian Ilona Maher expressed her envy in a hilarious response video.
Courtesy of @ilonamaher

Nonetheless, this argument was put to mattress by Irish gymnast Rhys McClenaghan, who filmed himself leaping up and down on these “abstinence-inducing” sleep sacks sans any mattress malfunctions.

In an identical video demonstration, members of Israel’s Olympic baseball group proved that the Spartan lodging may face up to the burden of as much as 9 bouncing baseballers with out collapsing.

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