Picture the scene, it is Friday night and you are swiping left and right on your phone trying to find someone to meet up with.
There’s slim pickings so you give up hope.
But what if you swapped your usual scenery and transported yourself to a location where there are a whole village of ridiculously fit athletes?
Well, clued up Londoners are cottoning onto a dating hack that will allow fast access to scores of eligible matches.
In case you haven’t guessed, they are doing this by changing their location on dating apps to Paris in the hope of bagging themselves an athlete.
Tinder users popularised this trick at the 2018 Winter Olympics and singletons are this are having another go this time around.
Influencer Sofia Elizabeth shared a TikTok video about changing her dating app location to the Olympic Village to the north of Paris and now others are following suit, with thanks.
@live_with_ally Thank you for the idea 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇 @Sofia Elizabeth @Hinge 🖤 #olympics #olympicspirit #lookingforlove #hinge #love #medal #medals #olympics2024 #usa #usa_tiktok #usa🇺🇸 #virall #viral_video #viralvideos #virat #viralli #viral? #viralchallenge #fypage #fyp #fyppp #foryou #foryoupage #foryour #toryoupage #foryou #foryoupage #fypp #yppppppppppppppp #fyppp #typppppppppppppp #typppp #yppppp #ypppppp #fyppppppp #ypppppp #fyppppppppp #lookingforyou #hingedating #single #singlelife #singleladies #dating #datingtips #datinglife #date #dates #datingadviceforwomen #datingadviceformen #datingapps #datingtipsforwomen #tips #tipsforgirls
♬ original sound - Sofia Elizabeth
Speaking in her video, a user said: “Whoever said to change your location to the 'Olympic Village' currently in Paris to match with an Olympian, I just wanna thank you from the bottom of my heart.”
@samibrielle my thumbs hurt 😫 #olympics #paris2024
♬ original sound - Payjoeyy
And Sofia again took to TikTok, to say she could not believe how things have taken off after she posted her tip. See here:
@sofiaelizabethsbackup so many articles came out about this so today has just been insane! Thank you !! #olympics
♬ original sound - Sofia Elizabeth
Tinder reportedly said in July, there was been an almost 20 percent increase in swipes in France, and a 103 percent increase in Passport Mode (a paid feature to change your location) to sites like Paris.
The US, Brazil, and Turkey are the top origin countries where daters are using Passport Mode to change their location to France in the hope of finding love.
And why not?
Olympians are strong, they're fit, and they're at the peak of their game… which even led us to post our most crush-worthy Olympians of Paris 2024.
Just some of the athletes we can’t get enough of include 22-year-old French springboard diver Jules Bouyer, US gymnast Sunisa Lee and Italian backstroke champion Thomas Ceccon.
