Olympic athletes are all being given free £1,000 gift as they arrive at village

The Winter Olympics is set to begin later this week, with many athletes taking to social media to share content from the famous village.

For those who aren't aware, all athletes must stay in the Olympic Village while competing at the games, which are being hosted in Milan this year.

We've all heard about the sexcapades which have gone on among the elite competitors in the village in the past - as more have come out to speak about their own experiences.

Cardboard beds were used for athletes in the past, with many assuming they were to stop athletes getting hot and steamy with their peers, but the Olympics insisting they were to reduce the Games' carbon footprint.

There are rules about when to leave following events, while social media platforms have helped us ordinary people see what life is like for the most talented sportspeople in the world.

Luckily, Olympians this year have been treated to legitimate mattresses in their rooms, but what else have they been treated to?

Emilea Zingas, a US ice skater, has taken to TikTok to reveal that there's something unique which athletes in the Italian city are getting this Winter Games.

The athlete runs the page alongside her ice dance partner and boyfriend Vadym Kolesnik, where they share videos of their everyday lives, ice skating training, and now Olympic-related content.

She admitted to followers that she's 'super excited' to explore the Olympic Village, as Kolesnik said they were on their way to secure Zingas a phone.

"Every athlete at the Olympics gets a free Samsung phone and I've never used a Samsung, so this is gonna be interesting," the 23-year-old explained.

The five-time Challenger Series medalist and 2026 US National silver medalist can be seen sitting with the employees running the Samsung store, after they offered to give her partner another phone despite him already having one.

In activating it for her, they make sure that everything's ready for use from the get-go.

Zingas even collects a Samsung pin in the village, one of many which are on offer.

The phone they get is none other than a Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7, which sells from £1,049 on the British market for a 256 GB model.

If you pay an extra £100, you'll secure the 512 GB model.

The phone itself is a bit of a throwback, flipping up and down like a classic mobile from the early 2000s.

While it folds in on itself, the entire screen is touch-friendly, with the top half of the back even having a display.

This allows users to take selfies using the back camera, while still being able to see how they look, in what is a pretty handy addition.

Whether Olympians will go on to use these Samsungs as their regular everyday phones is yet to be seen, but it's yet another perk of dedicating your life to a sport and competing for your country, I guess.