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Olympian Ilona Maher jokes about finding her match at the Olympic Village: ‘I’m here to find love’
By Vanessa Serna,
5 hours ago
A gold medal isn’t the only prized possession on Ilona Maher’s mind as she heads to Paris for the 2024 Olympics.
The US Women’s Rugby star joked she’s ready to find her love match as she resides with fellow athletes at the Olympic headquarters for the next few weeks.
“I cannot wait to get into the Olympic Villa, it’s gonna be a crazy summer,” she said on TikTok Wednesday. “Honestly, I’ll probably be the fittest bird in there.”
Olympian IIona Maher claimed in a TikTok video shared on Wednesday that she’s looking for love at the 2024 Olympics in Paris. ILona Maher/TikTok In the video, which this still was taken from, the US Women’s Rugby star joked she’s hoping to cross paths with a potential match while staying with fellow athletes at the Olympic Village. ILona Maher/TikTok
“It’s called the Olympic Village, this isn’t ‘Love Island,'” a woman interrupted from behind the camera, referring to the Netflix reality show about finding love.
“Yeah, I guess if we wanna say that,” Maher added. “But I still wanna try to couple up early on. It is the early days but at the end of the day, I’m there to find love.”
“No, you’re not, not love, you’re there to play rugby,” the unidentified female clapped back.
“I cannot wait to get into the Olympic Villa, it’s gonna be a crazy summer,” she said in a TikTok video. TikTok/ilonamaher
Maher explained that she wanted to “couple up” with someone early on in the games. TikTok/ilonamaher “It is the early days but at the end of the day, I’m there to find love,” she added. REUTERS
The athlete appeared to have swiftly found a contender as she wrote in the caption, “I got a text!!
“You can find Love AND play rugby,” the official account for the 2024 Paris games commented.
Two-time Olympian Tyler Downs also alluded to finding a summer fling as he took to TikTok to show a video of himself staring down a bombshell.
“When a hot new bombshell enters the Olympic Villa,” the US springboard diver wrote. “Everyone here is gorgeous.”
Maher’s pal in the background of the video interrupted her, saying, “No, you’re not, not love, you’re there to play rugby.” TikTok/ilonamaher Olympian Tyler Downs also joked about seeing “hot new” bombshells in the village. Tyler Downs/TikTok
Event organizers anticipated that athletes would be sexually active while staying in the Olympic Village so they ordered 300,000 condoms to be included in participants’ welcome kits.
However, athletes’ beds in the village were built out of cardboard to allegedly avoid “intimacy among athletes” as USA runner Paul Chelimo previously claimed they couldn’t withhold sexual activity.
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