One of the least expected images to emerge from the Winter Olympics in Sochi has been the double loos – yes, side by side like thrones – spreading across social media in the weeks before Friday's opening ceremony. It surely gives a whole new meaning to going for a number two.

It all began when Steve Rosenberg, the BBC Moscow correspondent, tweeted this:

To which responses included "competitive pooping" and "I know several sports now do synchro … BUTT …"

Officials played down the interest and said management had wanted the toilets to be a storeroom. Rosenberg had popped in just as the partition had been removed, they said. The Sochi organising committee, however, was not able to say whether the cubicle was built by design or in error.

Reuters photographer Alexander Demianchuk then took a photo of the same toilet, which in its new life as a store cupboard included chests of drawers rather than the now-infamous loos. Looks like they forgot to take the toilet paper out.

(theguardian.com)

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