With the 2016 Olympic games done and dusted, online dating app Tinder, has revealed that usage in the athlete village went up by 129%.
Can you blame them? After spending 4+ years training on the daily AND having the pressure of their WHOLE country behind them, every athlete deserves to have a post game cool down, with a match of their own. Being surround by the world’s fittest athletes and being pumped with adrenaline must not have sucked either.
Tinder also revealed which sports were most popular amongst the athletes as listed below:
Males swiped on females who played:
- Tennis
2. Weightlifting
3. Gymnastics
4. Sport shooting
5. Judo
Bring on the eggs and protein powder, I’m off to go lift some weights…
While females swiped on males who played:
- Table Tennis
2. Field Hockey
3. Rowing
4. Weightlifting
5. Rugby
No surprises there, there is something just so attractive about a man who knows how to work his racquet if you know what I mean.
Instagram account @sportswipe, collates the Tinder profiles and bios, posted by athletes.
This increase in matchmaking doesn’t come unexpectedly however, with news coming that the village had provided the athletes with 450,000 free condoms to use throughout their time at the games.
