We’re just days away from the start of the 2024 Olympic Games. That means seeing all our favorite queer athletes showing off their skills — and for five-time Olympian diver Tom Daley, that includes his skills in the bedroom.

In a new video posted to Instagram and TikTok, Daley showed off the Olympic Village’s infamous cardboard beds, which were first introduced at the 2020 Games in Tokyo, where their unorthodox construction led folks to believe they were meant to keep the Olympians from doing anything too … strenuous with one another during the games.

Not to worry, though, says Daley: the beds are more than equipped to deal with him and his fellow athletes.

“For those wondering about the cardboard beds in the Village, I’m gonna show you what they look like,” Daley said, before giving his viewers a tour of the bed’s headboard, supports, mattress, and Paris Games-themed comforter. The video then cuts to him jumping on the bed from foot to foot: “And as you can see, they’re pretty sturdy!” he shouted.

Jumping on the bed is one thing, but it was Daley’s landing that caught his fans’ attention. When he finished jumping, Daley hit the bed on all-fours with an arched back, a position that had the gays’ minds running wild across the internet.

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CARBOARD BEDS IN THE OLYMPIC VILLAGE! #paris2024 #olympics

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“IM SORRY THE DISMOUNT POSITION THOMAS,” wrote one commenter on TikTok.

“The muscle memory kicked in, huh?” asked another.

“9.8 for the dismount. Could do with more back arch,” joked a third. 

For the record, the beds’ level of support isn’t a design flaw: According to the Games themselves, the choice to use cardboard wasn’t meant to be anti-sex in the first place. “We know the media has had a lot of fun with this story since Tokyo 2020, but for Paris 2024 the choice of these beds for the Olympic and Paralympic Village is primarily linked to a wider ambition to ensure minimal environmental impact and a second life for all equipment,” a spokesperson for the Paris Games told AFP.

We’re glad to hear all the Olympians (Daley included) will find the beds more than capable of whatever bedroom antics they hope to get up to — resting up for their events chief among them, of course.

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