How a match making app is all the rage at the Olympic Village
It just isn't the Olympics without at least one story about athletes fornicating like rabbits in their dorms. You know how it goes: athletes are packed in close quarters, looking to relieve the stress created by competing against the world's best, and typically pretty attractive. It's a perfect storm of hormones.
This time around, athletes are turning to cutting-edge technology to make it easier than ever to find sexual partners.
"Tinder in the Olympic Village is next level," U.S. snowboarder Jamie Anderson, gold medalist in slopestyle, told Us Magazine. "It's all athletes! In the mountain village it's all athletes. It's hilarious. There are some cuties on there."
Tinder, for those unfamiliar, is sort of a dating app boiled down to its base elements. Users can view potential matches on their phones and indicate whether they like what they see. When two people give each other a thumbs-up, the app allows them to chat. And, presumably, to arrange where and when to meet up.
For those looking to skip the "dinner and a movie" part of dating and move straight to the main event, Tinder is a godsend. For that reason, it's soared in popularity on college campuses in the U.S., and now in Sochi.
Of course, the app can be a distraction, too.
"There was a point where I had to be like OK, this is way too distracting," Anderson said. "I deleted my account to focus on the Olympics."
No word on whether she downloaded it again now that she's done competing.