Tinder wins gold at Sochi Olympics as athletes score dates
It’s Valentine’s Day and love is in the air and online. Perhaps no more so than among the athletes at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The mainstream media has covered how the men and women of the Olympics are seeking love connections at the games. The press has noted the Olympic villages were stocked with 100,000 free condoms for the athletes to use. Olympic snowboarder Jamie Anderson made headlines when she said the athletes were using the matchmaking app Tinder to hook up at the games. “Tinder in the Olympic Village is next level,” she told Us Weekly . Someone even made a Tumblr blog called Sochi On Tinder , which posts pictures of athletes using the smartphone app. Tinder is owned by InterActiveCorp (IACI), which also runs online dating services Match.com and OkCupid. Tinder has generated a lot of controversy for focusing on users’ looks and being more …