What happens when you put 10,000 excited, young, attractive, healthy athletes together in one place without parents or journalists? You're exactly right.
ESPN magazine talks to several athletes who don't mind spilling the beans about the real games that go on in the Olympic Village every two years. Link -via Breakfast Links
(Image credit: Noma Bar)
Home to more than 10,000 athletes at the Summer Games and 2,700 at the Winter, the Olympic Village is one of the world's most exclusive clubs. To join, prospective members need only have spectacular talent and -- we long assumed -- a chaste devotion to the most intense competition of their lives. But the image of a celibate Games began to flicker in '92 when it was reported that the Games' organizers had ordered in prophylactics like pizza. Then, at the 2000 Sydney Games, 70,000 condoms wasn't enough, prompting a second order of 20,000 and a new standing order of 100,000 condoms per Olympics.
Many Olympians, past and present, abide by what Summer Sanders, a swimmer who won two gold medals, a silver and a bronze in Barcelona, calls the second Olympic motto: "What happens in the village stays in the village." Yet if you ask enough active and retired athletes often enough to spill their secrets, the village gates will fly open. It quickly becomes clear that, summer or winter, the games go on long after the medal ceremony. "There's a lot of sex going on," says women's soccer goalkeeper Hope Solo, a gold medalist in 2008. How much sex? "I'd say it's 70 percent to 75 percent of Olympians," offers world-record-holding swimmer Ryan Lochte, who will be in London for his third Games. "Hey, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do."
ESPN magazine talks to several athletes who don't mind spilling the beans about the real games that go on in the Olympic Village every two years. Link -via Breakfast Links
(Image credit: Noma Bar)
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Ooh, this gives me an idea that could help improve the NBC Olympics coverage ratings...
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Pizza is a prophylactic?
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I may be totally off base on this.... but that Olympic Ring / condom image may be a little this side of racist. Why is the yellow one so small, and the black one so long?
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Gives new meaning to the term "Olympic swimmers".
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