As athletes arrive in China for the Winter Olympics, one burning query has crossed various minds: What will the beds be like this time? Short reply: no cardboard in sight.

U.S. luger Summer Britcher gave the web a primary have a look at the beds in Beijing in a recent TikTok video. Beds on the Games turned an unlikely spectacle final summer time throughout the Tokyo Olympics, which supplied athletes with modest beds manufactured from recycled cardboard frames to advertise a message of sustainability. The beds went viral after some joked that they have been anti-sex beds—an assumption that was later debunked—setting the stage for future scrutiny of Olympic lodging.

In true China trend, the beds in Beijing bear no resemblance to these in Tokyo. Far from modest, these beds are larger and sleeker.

“Not only do we not have cardboard beds here, but it’s as if the Beijing Organizing Committee said, ‘How can we just absolutely just one up Tokyo?’” Britcher said in her video, which as of Monday has acquired greater than 342,000 views. “And this is what they went with.”

The athlete demonstrated that the beds may be adjusted by distant management and have a zero g mode, a time period I had by no means heard to explain a mattress. According to the feedback on the video, it stands for “zero gravity mode,” a setting on adjustable beds that reduces strain on muscular tissues and joints and helps the physique absolutely calm down.

“I’m in zero g mode now. It’s phenomenal,” Britcher stated.

Wow. My again is legitimately jealous.

Olympic athletes aren’t the one ones getting handled to particular beds, although. Reuters reported on Sunday that journalists have been additionally given entry to Sleep Rest Cabins, that are precisely what their identify says they’re, to take energy naps of as much as an hour. The beds within the cabins are the identical ones utilized by the athletes within the Athletes’ Village and may be adjusted utilizing a distant management or a telephone.

The Beijing Games will characteristic roughly 2,900 athletes who will compete in 109 occasions. Tensions are excessive, influenced by each the pandemic and the diplomatic boycott of the occasion led by the U.S., which has since been joined by different international locations. The boycott is a protest of China’s horrific therapy of Uyghur Muslims within the Xinjiang area and different human rights abuses within the nation.

The Games open on Friday.