During this year’s Paris 2024 Olympics, singles are pole vaulting into the Olympic Village — on dating apps, anyway.
This isn’t exactly a new strategy to find an athletic and attractive partner. Mashable’s Rachel Thompson wrote about Tinder users doing this for the 2018 Winter Olympics, and you’ll find other years-old videos about this on TikTok too. But, here we go again: It’s another Olympic year, and another chance to score literal or figurative gold.
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Influencer Sofia Elizabeth shared a TikTok video about changing her dating app location to the Olympic Village — it’s located north of Paris across Saint-Denis, Saint Ouen, and L’Île-Saint-Denis. She later clarified that she did so on Hinge because changing your location on that app is free (unlike on Tinder and Bumble).
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