Olympian forced to delete Tinder during stay in raunchy Olympic village explains 'next-level' things she was seeing

An athlete who stayed in the Olympic Village revealed that she saw 'next-level things' on Tinder during the Games - before deciding to delete the app.

The Olympics sees the most elite male and female athletes, in peak condition, competing for some of the biggest prizes in sport.

Over 20,000 athletes were housed at the village across the Olympics and Paralympics in Paris last summer.

Away from training and the events themselves, there is plenty of downtime.

And with high levels of adrenaline and endorphins in their bodies, it won't be a massive shock to hear that many of the athletes find ways to entertain themselves.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) tried to discourage sex at Tokyo 2020 by introducing beds made out of cardboard - which, again unsurprisingly, didn't make much difference.

Since 1988, Olympic committees have handed out free condoms to athletes once they arrive at the village.

Team USA alpine skiier Carrie Sheinberg once revealed that she met a pair of German bobsledders, who then offered to 'trade me their gold for all kinds of other favours'. Needless to say, she refused.

Use of the Tinder dating app by athletes during the Games has gone through the roof in recent years, with a TikToker revealing he changed his app location to that of the Olympic village before matching with several athletes.

Back in 2014, US snowboarder Jamie Anderson revealed that she downloaded Tinder at the beginning of the Winter Olympics in Sochi.

She subsequently won a gold medal in slopestyle - but only after having to delete the app because she was too addicted.

"Tinder in the Olympic Village is next level," she told Fox Sports Australia. "It's all athletes! In the mountain village, it's all athletes. It's hilarious. There are some cuties here.

"There was a point where I had to be like, 'OK, this is way too distracting'. I deleted my account to focus on the Olympics."