Grindr is tightening privacy controls for the Olympic Village in Beijing. Bloomberg has learned the gay dating app is blocking people outside the Village from using the location-based Explore feature to find athletes in or near the area. The move is meant to protect athletes from harassment or persecution so they can "feel confident" connecting with each other during the Winter Olympic Games, Grindr for Equality director Jack Harrison-Quintana said. Anyone who uses Grindr inside the Village will see a pop-up telling them people outside the area can't browse the locale using Explore. "Your privacy is important to us," Grindr says in the alert.

'The show must go on,' an often heard sentence that makes absolute sense in the pandemic hit the world. Yes, it all became at the end of 2019 when Covid-19 was first reported in Wuhan. Later, the virus spread across the globe and pushed governments to impose strict lockdowns. An international sports event that was supposed to take place in 2020 got delayed and finally, when people started living with the virus in 2021, the IOC and Japan, the host country, came forward to go on with it. One of the most welcomed guests in the summer Tokyo Olympics is artificial intelligence.

Consider, if you will, the Olympic Village. It's no wonder that dating apps like Tinder light up the moment the Olympics begin… and that the Village has a reputation as a sort of sex Shangri-La. But despite the condoms that reportedly litter the Olympic Village by the end of the Winter Games--a record 110,000, or 38 per athlete, were provided this year--many will go unused because of pre-game superstitions. Plenty of elite athletes abstain from sex before competing--even though there's no scientific evidence to support their decision from either a physical or psychological perspective. Supposedly, athletes who swipe left on sex before competitions have an advantage on the field. Theories vary as to the exact reason why.

The 2018 Winter Olympics games, taking place in PyeongChang, South Korea, kicks off in February. A record amount of condoms -- nearly 40 per person -- were distributed to athletes participating in the 2018 Winter Olympics this month, a handout officials say will allow tense competitors to let out steam during the high-pressure games in South Korea. But the move is raising questions about allowing the Olympic Village to turn into a freewheeling sex romp at a time when the #MeToo movement has taken the world by storm and sensitivity about sexual misconduct is at an all-time high. "The Olympics is a very sexually charged time," Julie Spira, an online and mobile dating expert, told CBS News. "Young athletes and attendees have been using dating apps heavily in prior Olympics, but now the popularity of an app like Tinder continues to grow and grow." Some 1.2 million people, including athletes, were expected to gather in PyeongChang, South Korea for the 2018 Winter Olympics.