While Smith admits they're "pretty stiff," athletes can customize their mattresses to fit their personal sleeping preferences. "There's a space here in the Paris 2024 Village where they give you ...

The infamous cardboard beds have returned to the Olympic Village, but director Daniel Smith tells PEOPE that the mattresses can be customized to fit each athlete's personal sleep preferences.

And that included shipping his own mattress to the Olympic Village. "Everyone's complaining about beds and stuff," Richard said Wednesday. "I ordered my bed already, shipped it here.

The mattress blocks are entirely washable and hypoallergenic, meaning there won’t be any worry about bedbugs infesting the Olympic Village. Airweave Seriously good sleep ...

A general view of a bed and mattress inside the Athletes' Village ahead of the Paris Olympic Games on July 23, 2024 in Paris, France. Getty Images ...

Paris 2024 has partnered with high-tech mattress company Airweave to kit out the Olympic village. These innovative mattresses use Airfiber technology; polyethylene strands woven together to create ...

Each mattress is comprised of three separate blocks that come in varying grades of firmness ... ordering 300,000 condoms to be delivered to the Olympic Village alongside the Airweave beds.

The Olympic Village is seven kilometres (4.3 miles) north of central Paris — spread between the suburbs of Saint-Denis, L’Ile-Saint-Denis, and Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine.

The cardboard beds at Olympic Village are intended to be used for just a few short weeks before being recycled. Photo: VCG/Getty Images. Back when the beds were unveiled at the previous Olympic ...

In an interview with PEOPLE, Team USA's Olympic Village Director Daniel Smith explains that athletes and teams can opt out of staying in the shared community space during a Games.

The village, built in a Paris suburb that formerly housed old industrial buildings, can accommodate more than 14,000 athletes, coaches and staff during the Olympic Games and another 8,000 athletes ...