Why Sex Is So Common At The Olympics As Athletes Run Out of Condoms
The IOC have responded after all condoms ran out at the Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina.
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Topics: Olympics
Josh Lawless
Topics: Olympics
Condoms have ran out at the Olympics, an event known for being rife with sex whether in the Summer or the Winter.
The latest edition of the Games is taking place in Milan-Cortina and one of the most bizarre talking points has been Norweigian biathlete Sturla Holm Laegreid admitting that he cheated on his girlfriend in a live TV interview.
But another big headline of late has been that the village of which Olympians are staying in has ran out of condoms in very quick fashion.
“The supplies ran out in just three days,” an anonymous athlete told Italian newspaper La Stampa.
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“They promised us more will arrive, but who knows when.”
The outlet said that less than 10,000 were handed out to the athletes present, but IOC spokesperson Mark Adams said that that amount was used.
He stated: "Clearly, this shows Valentine's Day is in full swing at the village. Ten thousand have been used - 2,800 athletes - you can go figure, as they say.
"It is rule 62 of the Olympic Charter that we have to have a condoms story. Faster, higher, stronger, together."
Since the 1988 Seoul Olympics, condoms have been handed out to promote safe sex and at the Paris Olympics in 2024, organisers handed out 300,000 free condoms.
At the same time, athletes were forced to stay in 'anti-sex' cardboard beds. This time around the beds are more normal, with mattresses and a headboard.
Every time the Olympics is on, there is always chatter about the amount of sex - which sounds akin to something you'd expect from lads or girls on holiday in their late teens or early twenties.
But just why does so much sex go on? Susen Tiedtke, a long jumper who competed at two events for Germany, said that athletes simply want to "live out their energy" once done competing.
Speaking to BILD, she said: “The athletes are at their physical peak at the Olympics. When the competition is over, they want to release their energy.
"When the competition is over, they want to live out their energy, there is one party after the other, then alcohol comes into play.
"It happens that you have sex and there are enough people who also strive for that."
Former United States water polo captain and five-time Olympian Tony Azevedo is enough person to weigh in and he simply said that athletes have difficulty dating because of the dedication to their training and the schedule.
When there is the opportunity for athletes to meet people in a similar field, they jump at it.
"Think about how hard it is to meet someone," Azevedo said, speaking to ESPN in 2012.
"Now take an Olympian who trains from 6.00am. until 5.00pm every day. When the hell are you supposed to meet someone? Now the pressure is done, you're meeting like-minded people ... and boom."
In the same article, former US goalkeeper Hope Solo said that the sexual exploits were not restricted to bedrooms as she saw people having sex "right out in the open" - including "on the grass" and "between buildings".
Solo also claimed that there is a five-word phrase Olympians use to get lucky.
There are also stories of a whirpool orgy involving six athletes from three different countries.
Micah Richards, former England defender-turned-pundit, said he was "on fire" in the village when he represented Team GB in 2012 at the London Olympics.