Beds made of cardboard for the athletes in the Tokyo Olympics .. and an Irish hero exposes the myth الخر

Tokyo Olympics beds have been criticized by athletes.

AFP

It may be a very marginal thing in an Olympics that is haunted by the specter of the Corona virus, but the athletes' beds in the Olympic Village have taken a lot of attention in the past few hours, after questioning their toughness, because they are made of cardboard. But the organizers reassured that these beds are "strong" enough, strengthening their position with a video published by Irish gymnast Reese McClinaghan, in which the latter appears repeatedly jumping on the bed, to prove this, in response to allegations in a report by the American newspaper "New York Post", That the beds are deliberately weak, to promote social distancing. McClinaghan wrote on Twitter: 'Beds are corrugated board, yes. They say it's made to be broken...it's fake news - fake!" In January, the manufacturer, Arrowwave, said it could carry a weight of 200 kilograms, and underwent rigorous testing, after Australian basketball giant Andrew Bogut questioned its durability.

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