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"I've seen people having sex right out in the open. On the grass, between buildings, people are getting down and dirty."
For most people, the 2024 Paris Olympics is all about competition and sports. But TBH, for me, I'm just excited for the TEA. Because in case you weren't aware, the athletes are more entertaining off-screen than on — and to prove it, here are some verrrrry NSFW hookup stories and facts from past Olympics that you definitely didn't know about:
1. Starting at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, athletes had to sleep on cardboard beds. The flimsy nature was designed on purpose to be "anti-sex".
2. This year at the Paris Olympics, organizers have already stocked up on over 300 THOUSAND condoms, which they're expecting to blow through pretty quickly (no pun intended).
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The director of the Olympic Village said, "It’s a quantity to make sure everybody would have what they are expecting and what they need." They know their audience!
3. At the Vancouver Olympics in 2010, a group of Canadian, German, and Austrian athletes had an orgy at a house outside the Olympic Village. Yes, an ORGY.
4. The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia saw a massive rise in Tinder usage in the Olympic Village — athletes were pretty much running the app.
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American Snowboarder Jamie Anderson called it "next level." And this wasn’t even in Tinder’s heyday yet!
5. And speaking of dating apps: at the London 2012 Olympics, Grindr literally CRASHED. Within MINUTES of athletes arriving.
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"It took 24 hours for the app to get back up and running, much to the relief of all concerned," a London local said. The founder then had to apologize, saying he, too, was "frustrated."
6. Julie Foudy, who competed in three Olympics from 1996-2004, said she saw people having sex "right out in the open. On the grass, between buildings, people are getting down and dirty."
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She also called the Olympic Village a "frat party with a very nice gene pool."
7. The Beijing 2008 Olympics was referred to as a "sex fest," according to an Olympic table tennis player. This led to a catchphrase for that Olympics: "More sex than Woodstock."
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The Olympian who said this, Matthew Syed, also recalled having had sex more often during the two weeks of the Barcelona 1992 games than in all the years of his life combined before then.
8. The sex problem (or maybe it's not a problem, depending on how you see it) might've first started at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, where athletes were having so much outdoor sex, they had to ban it.
9. At the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics, German bobsledders tried to trade their gold medals for some "group fun" with skier Carrie Sheinberg.
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Sheinberg told ESPN, "They made it clear that they'd trade me their gold for all kinds of other favors. I said jokingly, 'Thanks, but Tommy Moe has a medal. I'll play with his.'" (Tommy Moe is another Olympian, BTW.)
10. On the plane ride home from Sydney to LA after the 2000 Summer Olympics, it was essentially a sex-fest as well. Not just in the bathroom, but like, in the rows.
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"Everybody partnered up fairly rapidly," American Olympian Breaux Greer said. He also confessed to having sex with a famous Olympian in the bathroom, but didn’t say who.
11. That same athlete also was apparently "visited" by at least three women every single day during the 2000 Sydney Olympics, sometimes without more than a couple hours in between.
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ESPN describes the women as: "An accomplished pole vaulter and former flame; a mighty hurdler who 'tried to dominate me,' Greer says; and a 'very talented' vacationer from Scandinavia."
12. At the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, officials had to send out an "emergency" shipment of almost 10,000 additional condoms after the initial supply of 100,000 was used up. (Which works out to 14 condoms per person, BTW.)
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They received so many calls from athletes, saying "'Help, I need condoms'" that they had to contact the Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research to get more. Canada, to the rescue.
13. And what do the actual condoms look like? At the Beijing 2008 Olympics, the Olympic motto "Faster, higher, stronger" was written on the packaging.
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There were 100,000 in total. Adam Rippon, figure skater, also said there were actual Olympic rings on them, too.
14. The most amount of condoms at an Olympics (that I've heard, at least) was 450,000 at the 2016 Rio Olympics. This included — for the first time! — 100,000 female condoms.
15. At the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics, traffic on both Tinder and PornHub "skyrocketed" specifically within the Olympic Village.
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In response to this statistic, one athlete said, "You want to talk about porn? Okay, well yeah, we're human and we have needs too, just like anyone else.” Although, uh, I'm pretty sure it's just them who have "needs" this demanding and intense. But OK, whatever you say.
16. Ryan Lochte, a swimmer who competed in three Olympics, said that around 70 to 75% of Olympians are having sex at the Olympics. Which, wow, is A LOT.
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Like, aren't they… busy? I’m puzzled. How do they even have time to train with all the sex that's supposedly going on?
17. Of course, many coaches enforce rules on athletes — like curfews or banning mixed-gender visits in rooms. There's also security, like, everywhere in the dorms. But this only leads athletes to (super deviously) sneak out and walk around for hours on end to try and find a spot to hook up.
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Amanda Beard said that, during the 2000 Olympics, "People would walk around for miles to try to sneak somewhere." And honestly, I believe it.
18. Gus Kenworthy, who skied in three Olympic Games starting in 2014, said people actually lost their virginity in the Olympic Village.
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Lots of people going for gold... in more ways than one.
19. At the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, one Soviet diver — who was married! — was caught hooking up with another diver on his team. SCANDAL.
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It’s unclear based on the wording of this story whether the diver was married to someone else or this guy he was hooking up with — but like, I’m 99% sure it was cheating.
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