A former Olympic athlete has revealed why there's so much sex at the sporting event.
With the Olympic Games kicking off in Paris tonight (26 July), you might be surprised to hear that once the competing draws to a close, athletes have their very own sporting events over in the Olympic Village.
In fact, athletes are having so much sex that organisers have to stock up on tens of thousands of condoms.
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This year, the village has been stocked with 300,000, which is the highest number of condoms ever to be ordered.
Back at the Tokyo games in 2020, organisers had to order a further 20,000 condoms when they ran out of the 70,000 they already had.
Paris is the city of love, after all.
But why are the athletes having so much sex?
Former Olympian Susen Tiedtke spoke to Bild back in July 2021, saying that sex at the Olympics is 'inevitable no matter what'.
The German former long jumper competed in the games in 1992 and 2000 - and even met her ex-husband, Ben Greene, during the Barcelona games.
To compete at the Olympics, athletes must dedicate their lives to training, so it makes sense that after months of busy schedules, they'd want to release some energy once the competition has finished.
While sex beforehand isn't a good idea, Tiedtke says that afterwards is a different story.
“The athletes are at their physical peak at the Olympics. When the competition is over, they want to release their energy,” she explained.
“After the competition, however, roommates were considerate if you needed the room for yourself. You always heard the ‘party’ of the others, sometimes you could hardly sleep.
“There is one party after another, then alcohol comes into play. It happens that people have sex and there are enough people who strive for that.”
Other athletes have also spoken about what really goes on in the Olympic Village.
Matthew Syed represented Great Britain in table tennis at the 1992 Barcelona Games, and Sydney in 2000.
"Barcelona was, for many of us Olympic virgins, as much about sex as it was about sport," he wrote in The Times, in 2008.
Syed said he 'spent so much time in a state of lust that he could have passed out', adding: "I am often asked if the Olympic Village - the vast restaurant and housing conglomeration that hosts the world’s top athletes for the duration of the Games - is the sex-fest it is cracked up to be.
"My answer is always the same: too right it is.
"I played my first Games in Barcelona in 1992 and got laid more often in those two and a half weeks than in the rest of my life up to that point."
Topics: Olympics, Sex and Relationships
Lucy Devine