The 2025 World Athletics Championships kicks off this weekend as part of a nine-day stretch at the National Stadium in Tokyo, Japan.
Tokyo has not hosted a major sporting event since the delayed 2020 Olympics in 2021 and will welcome more than 2200 athletes who will represent nearly 200 federations.
There are 147 available medals across 49 different events and the likes of Noah Lyles, Keely Hodgkinson and Armand Duplantis will all look to replicate their heroics from the Olympics in Paris last summer.
Tokyo will prove to be a melting point of some of the most gifted athletes in the world but the off-track antics will likely be tame in comparison to previous Olympic tales.
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Former US goalkeeper Hope Solo said she saw people having sex "right out in the open" - including "on the grass" and "between buildings" during her experience.
US javelin thrower Breaux Greer slept with three athletes every day at the showpiece in Sydney in 2000, where former American target shooter Josh Lakatos was quoted as saying that he felt he was "running a friggin' brothel in the Olympic Village" and had "never witnessed so much debauchery in my entire life".
But in the same ESPN piece from 2012, an even raunchier story from the Winter Games emerged,
An unnamed skier told the outlet that in Vancouver 2010, "some Germans, Canadians and Austrians" got together and had a "late-night whirlpool party" which quickly turned into "a whirlpool orgy."
Since 1988 with the Seoul Olympics, condoms have been handed out beforehand to ensure all sex is safe and to raise awareness for sexually transmitted diseases.
Six years later, Carrie Sheinberg, an alpine skier, competed at the 1994 Winter Games and described the Olympic village as "a magical, fairy-tale place, where everything is possible".
She proceeded to explain why hook ups between each other at the Olympics is so common.
"You could win a gold medal and you can sleep with a really hot guy," she stated.
"Maybe because they feel they never have to see each other again. It's also about finding something new. Olympians are adventurers.
"They look for a challenge, like having sex with someone who doesn't speak their language."
The World Athletics Championships do appear to be a little more well-behaved and civilised as there is not typically a centralised base for all competitors.
However, there is still huge incentive for the showpiece as there is total of £6.2 million in prize money up for grabs.
Anyone who wins a gold medal will bag £52,000, while anyone who sets a new world record will be entitled to a whopping £74,000.
Josh Lawless