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          2024 Olympic Village features cardboard beds and cruise ships

          Cruise ship Aranui 5 will serve as the Olympic village for surfers at the 2024 Olympic games. Jerome Brouillet/AFP via Getty Images
          • J.J. Post, ESPNJul 23, 2024, 06:03 PM ET

          The summer Olympics are back -- and so are the Olympic Village athlete beds.

          Last time around at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the athletes' accommodations made headlines for their intriguing material: cardboard. Designed to be recycled into new products after the Games were finished, the beds did have to overcome allegations of being "anti-intimacy."

          Regardless of their purpose, the cardboard beds evidently proved a success, as they're back and strong as ever this year.

          For Olympic surfers, however, things are a bit different. This Games' edition of the event will be held in Tahiti -- the farthest a medal competition has ever been held from a host city.

          With the competitors over 9,000 miles away from Paris, a surfer-specific Olympic village was needed. The result? A floating village on board a cruise liner based out of the island.

          Each room includes a balcony with an ocean view. Notably, they do not also contain cardboard beds.