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Grindr is 'blocked' in Paris Olympic Village after the gay dating app was limited during previous Games to prevent users from finding athletes' profiles
Grindr has been 'blocked' in the Paris Olympic Village after the gay dating app was limited during previous Games to prevent users from finding athletes' profiles.
The 'explore' function on the hook-up app has been limited meaning people won't be able to find any profiles where more than 14,000 athletes will be based.
A post on X, formerly Twitter, showed 'no profiles were available' with one person saying Grindr had been 'blocked' when he tried to find other users in the village.
Some have suggested it has been done to stop previous instances where athletes had been outed, such as at the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016.
The Paris 2024 organising committee told MailOnline dating apps are accessible within the Olympic Village, 'but for some, geolocation has been deactivated by the app publisher'.
Grindr imposed the same restriction during the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022 with the app's equality head Jack Harrison-Quintan saying at the time: 'We want Grindr to be a space where all queer athletes, regardless of where they're from, feel confident connecting with one another while they're in the Olympic Village.'
Grindr has been 'blocked' in the Paris Olympic Village after the gay dating app was limited during previous Games to prevent users from finding athletes' profiles.
A post on X, formerly Twitter , showed 'no profiles were available' with one person saying Grindr had been 'blocked' when he tried to find other users in the village
Some have suggested it has been done to stop previous instances where athletes had been outed, such as at the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016
MailOnline has contacted Grindr for comment.
One of the big talking points among athletes before this summer's Games has been the beds that they will sleep on at the official Olympic headquarters.
For the second Games running, the beds have been made using cardboard.
It has been widely and wildly rumoured that this was a move to discourage sexual activity between athletes.
However, Olympic organisers have stressed that they were not designed as 'anti-sex beds', but instead to symbolise the competition's commitment to sustainability.
In 2016, US news outlet The Daily Beast apologised for publishing an article that may have outed a number of gay athletes at the Rio Games.
In a piece titled 'I got three Grindr dates in one hour in the Olympic village', Nico Hines - a straight, male reporter - acknowledged many of the athletes he wrote about lived in 'notoriously homophobic' countries.
While he did not release their names, he shared what they wrote on their profiles and revealed identifying characteristics such as their height, weight and nationality.
The news website first revised the article before taking it down and issuing an apology.
Readers were outraged that the article potentially compromised the safety of closeted athletes from countries with strict anti-gay laws.
The Daily Beast said it had 'screwed up' saying in a statement: 'We were wrong. We're sorry. And we apologise to those athletes who may have been inadvertently compromised by our story.
'The article was not intended to do harm or degrade members of the LGBT community, but intent doesn't matter, impact does.'
Olympic organisers have denied rumours that beds have been made of cardboard to discourage sexual activity between athletes, instead saying it was for sustainability
More than 14,000 athletes will be based at the Olympic Village during the Games in Paris
'Our hope is that removing an article that is in conflict with both our values and what we aspire to as journalists will demonstrate how seriously we take our error. We screwed up. We will do better.'
The Grindr app crashed within minutes of athletes arriving at the London 2012 Olympics.
One Londoner told The Mirror: 'It happened almost as soon as the teams got here. Either loads of athletes were logging on to meet fellow Olympians or were looking to bag a local.
'The Grindr system obviously couldn't cope. It took 24 hours for the app to get back up and running, much to the relief of all concerned.'
Grindr was launched in 2009 and said it now has more than 13 million active users 'in virtually every country in the world.