{"id":6180,"date":"2024-08-03T15:02:44","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T15:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/03\/from-phones-to-porn-blocking-outfits-olympic-athletes-given-high-tech-swag-for-paris-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-08-03T15:02:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T15:02:44","slug":"from-phones-to-porn-blocking-outfits-olympic-athletes-given-high-tech-swag-for-paris-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/03\/from-phones-to-porn-blocking-outfits-olympic-athletes-given-high-tech-swag-for-paris-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"From phones to porn-blocking outfits: Olympic athletes given high-tech swag for Paris 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

Olympic athletes have been taking to social media to reveal the high-tech swag they have been given for the Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n

Every athlete received a new Olympic-themed<\/strong> Samsung flip phone, the normal version of which is retailing online for \u00a31,049.<\/p>\n

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One Team GB athlete, however, has taken full advantage of the freebie.<\/p>\n

At the Tokyo Olympics in 2020, athletes were also given a free phone, which rower Imogen Grant used “every day” until now, even as it started to break.<\/p>\n

In a video posted to her TikTok, she said: “I’ve been desperately, desperately, desperately trying to get [the Tokyo phone] to last, because I was crossing my fingers and\u2026”<\/p>\n

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Luckily for Grant, this year’s goodie bags did indeed come with a phone.<\/p>\n

The devices also play an unprecedented role in the Olympic medal ceremonies. After receiving their medals, athletes on the podium are handed one of the phones to take a victory selfie.<\/p>\n

The selfies are supposed to help athletes “create and share new, more personal memories of the celebration atop the podium”, according to Samsung.<\/p>\n

The goodie bags also contained toiletries, water bottles and gift cards but there’s plenty more high-tech swag being shown off online from Paris.<\/p>\n

Space swimsuits<\/strong><\/p>\n

For the swimming teams, more high-tech gear is on show.<\/p>\n

The Australian team are among those competing in swimsuits coated in a material used in space.<\/p>\n

The high-tech swimsuits made by Speedo are coated in a material that was originally developed to protect satellites in orbit. It makes the suits water repellent, which helps the athletes go faster.<\/p>\n

The suits, however, are made to be incredibly tight, as shown by Australia’s water polo team when they tried to stretch out their suits in an Instagram video.<\/p>\n

At one point, the athletes even hold onto the shoulders of their teammates’ swimsuits and bounce them up and down.<\/p>\n

Anti-infrared kit<\/strong><\/p>\n

The dark side of the internet has also led to some very high-tech gear for Japan’s athletes.<\/p>\n

In the 2020 games, the country’s female athletes complained that explicit images of them competing were circulating on the internet after voyeurs had taken photos of them using infrared cameras.<\/p>\n

Those cameras reveal the lines of a person’s body or their undergarments. Local press in Japan say explicit infrared photography is a growing problem for female athletes in the country.<\/p>\n

In response, athletes in Japan’s volleyball, table tennis, track and field and others are now competing in a new fabric that absorbs infrared light.<\/p>\n

The technology works in a similar way to stealth aircraft, which absorb and deflect radar signals.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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