The member of the American Rowing team, Emily Dellemanhas shared his disappointing experience with Tinder During his stay in the Olympic Village of Paris. He did it through a video of TikTok in which he recounted how his hopes of finding a athlete in the dating app search engine faded away quickly.
“The other day, I was lying on my cardboard bed, recovering like it was my job, because it is, and I was sliding down TikTok when I saw some girls saying ‘Hey, change your location to the Olympic Village’“, he begins by explaining in reference to the location that applications such as Tinder use to search for potential dates around the user.
A question of expectations
Delleman wanted to take advantage of his position, as he did not need to change his setup as he was already at the athletes’ headquarters in the French capital during these Olympic Games 2024“I hadn’t downloaded it for years, so I went to the App Store.” With the app already on her phone, the 26-year-old rower’s dreams began to take hold. “I was getting excited and expectations were rising”.
Nothing could be further from the truth. “I started sliding and I didn’t see anyone [atleta] Olympic“. The first thing the athlete thought was that her settings search were not configured correctly, but the parameters were correct: a radius of one mile was the extent of their potential appointments, so it included the entire Villa.
Search without a happy ending
“Until now I think I’ve seen a total of two other Olympics“She explained to the camera, disappointed. “Don’t get me wrong, the men of Paris are beautiful. I’m just wondering what my expectations will be.” expectations to find some of my future plots,” he added before reaching the conclusion of the video with another brief reflection: “I guess we’re looking for different forms of entertainmentand that’s why you find me on TikTok.”
