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Tinder releases list of sports receiving most right swipes in Rio de Janeiro

Women's table tennis players won more than medals in Rio. (Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)
Women’s table tennis players won more than medals in Rio. (Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)

The 2014 Sochi Games earned a reputation as the “Tinder Olympics, but usage of the mobile dating application in the athletes village increased 129 percent during opening weekend in Rio de Janeiro, and that upswing was expected to continue, according to Tinder spokeswoman Rosette Pambakian.

“A lot of the athletes here are using this app,” Swedish judoka Marcus Nyman told Canadian press.

Considering the International Olympic Committee outfitted the athletes village with roughly 42 condoms per athlete in Rio, perhaps we shouldn’t be surprise by the popularity of apps like Tinder.

What may come as a shock, though, is the list of sports that produced the most coveted Olympians.

On Tinder, one swipes right on photos of would-be objects of affection for a potential connection and left for an immediate rejection, so with the closing ceremony in the books, the makers of the app released data about which sport’s athletes received the most right swipes during the fortnight in Rio.

And the winning sports were … drum roll, please … tennis for men and table tennis for women.

Table tennis, you say? Yes, as in Ping Pong. Perhaps you were expected beach volleyball or some other sport in which athletes are scantily clad, but no — nothing is hotter in Rio than a paddle, apparently.

Here is Tinder’s complete list of sports that received the most right swipes among athletes in Rio:

Men

1. Tennis
2. Weightlifting
3. Gymnastics
4. Sport shooting
5. Judo
6. Boxing

Women

1. Table tennis
2. Field hockey
3. Rowing
4. Weightlifting
5. Rugby
6. Swimming

Nobody got the juices flowing in Rio quite like the weightlifters, it seems. In unrelated news, 15 Olympic weightlifters were just suspended for the use of performance-enhancing substances. Apparently, medals aren’t the only things getting stripped from weightlifters in the athletes village.