'Just wanna match with the Jamaican bobsleigh team!' The New Zealand snowboard star who is desperate to find an Olympian lover in Sochi

Rebecca Torr disappointed to fire up Tinder and find few athletes using it

The smart phone app allows users to find dates based on their location

Olympic athletes are notorious for promiscuous post-competition activities



In keeping with the best traditions of the Olympic village, a competitor has already revealed she is desperate to find an Olympian lover at Sochi's Games.

When N ew Zealand snowboarder Rebecca Torr fired up Tinder on her phone she found that few of her fellow athletes had caught on to the 21st century dating tool.

Tinder is a location-based dating app that lets users browse for prospective partners nearby. Users choose yes or no, and if there's a mutual match the app lets them know.

Yes or no? Tinder is a location-based dating app that lets users browse for prospective partners nearby through profiles on the service. Users choose yes or no, and if there's a mutual match the app lets them know

Fun-loving: Torr in action on the slopes, left, and joyously waving to the crowds at Sochi



Tinder wasn't launched in time for London 2012, but its gay equivalent Grindr made headlines after crashing almost immediately when athletes began arriving at the Olympic Village en masse.

So it's no surprise that Miss Torr was looking forward to some off-piste action with her fellow athletes in the days leading up to Sochi 2014.

'Can't wait to tinder in the Olympic village in Sochi,' she tweeted last month.

Miss Torr's tweet of January 31

Love interests: Torr is hoping to bump into Wayne Blackwood (left) and Marvin Dixon (centre) from the Jamaican Bobsleigh team

Hanging out: Torr, right,with fellow NZ team members (from left) Shelley Gotlieb, Stefi Luxton and Christy Prior

But despite her initial disappointment, Miss Torr's chances of meeting a match online have got a boost after her tweet was picked up by the Olympic Village Daily newspaper which runs for the course of the Games and is handed out to athletes.

'My tinder tweet made the Olympic village daily. Hopefully it brings me more matches and closer to the Jamaicans!' she joked.

And the story, first reported in Business Insider, has a happy ending, for it seems that Miss Torr eventually found what she was looking for.

