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Were Olympic Village cardboard beds made to stop sex?

HOW IT WAS TOLD

The Olympics are here but not as you know them.

The spectatorless sporting spectacular is under way in Tokyo a year late thanks to Covid, and that means stringent measures are in place to halt the spread of the virus in a country where rising cases triggered a state of emergency two weeks before

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