Volleyball, tennis, and basketball aren't the only games that will be played at the 2012 Summer Olympics. The athletes who stay in the Olympic village also engage in sex, and lots of it. The 2012 Summer Olympics in London is expected to see even more promiscuous behavior this year.
Olympic swimmer and gold medalist Summer Sanders once said the Games' second motto is, "What happens in the village stays in the village," however some Olympians are opening up about what really goes down at the Olympic village, according to The Associated Press.
Some sexy shenanigans have occurred among the 10,000 hot-bodied Olympians in their living quarters during the Games and it seems like things won't be too different this time around in London, according to The Associated Press.
U.S. women's soccer star Hope Solo spoke about the partying that went on at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Solo, 30, spoke openly about the orgy type atmosphere of the Olympic Village. She described it as a "frat party with a very nice gene pool," according to the New York Daily News.
"Athletes are extremists," Solo says. "When they're training, it's laser focus. When they go out for a drink, it's 20 drinks. With a once-in-a-lifetime experience, you want to build memories, whether it's sexual, partying or on the field."
Solo witnessed public sex while staying in the Olympic Village in 2008. "On the grass, between buildings, people are getting down and dirty," she said.
"Unlike at a bar, it's not awkward to strike up a conversation because you have something in common," Solo says. "It starts with, 'What sport do you play?' All of a sudden, you're fist-bumping."
Solo isn't the only one who noticed the sex going on in the village. Other Olympians straight out admitted to doing it.
Javelin thrower Breaux Greer admitted to having sex with three women every day during the 2000 Olympics. Carrie Sheinberg, a skier said that athletes tried to bribe her for sexual favors. She said a group of German bobsledders offered her their gold medals in exchange for sex.
This year, Olympians are getting ready to party it up and let loose in the village once again. Young athletes are ready to get into the action.
Kouassi Brou, a swimmer for the Ivory Coast was only 16 when he went to his first Olympics in Beijing, but as a 20-year-old, he's ready for a bit of loving. "In 2008 I was so young and so shy, so I didn't interact with the women," Brou told The Associated Press. "But now I'm a big man. So I can try. I will try." He's looking for someone nice-looking to try with. "If they are beautiful, it's OK," he said.
"The Olympics is the height of your career, so you might do some things you don't usually do," British beach volleyball player Shauna Mullin said with a giggle Wednesday. However Mullin says she'll stick to being a good girl as the Olympians will be in the international spotlight as the Summer Games go on. Fencer Kanae Ikehata agrees with staying tame. "I am Japanese," she said, "I'll only look."
Some fully approve the sexual shenanigans among the strong athletes with high stamina.
"[Sex] is common at the Olympics. It's necessary. It's natural," Dr. Joao Olyntho Machado Neto, doctor to the Brazilian team told The Associated Press. "If you are going to be healthy people, why not make sex? ... Brazil is very tolerant with sex as a country. We don't have Victorian minds and we're not religious."
In order to keep the Olympians healthy, thousands of free condoms will be provided as contraception will be in high demand by the athletes.
Some athletes are surprised by these revelations. "It's not something I've seen at all. ... Maybe I wasn't up on the right nights," Australian canoeist Warwick Draper said. "It's not something I think you'd expect to see in the village."
Others find the lack of privacy and space in rooms to be an issue that might keep Olympians from getting down and dirty at the village.
"It's pretty tight for us. I'm sharing one room with my coach and there are four rooms in one apartment, with one toilet, so we have to figure out how to use the toilet," said Sierra Leone sprinter Ibrahim Turay. He personally hopes his neighbors won't get too rowdy so he can get some rest.
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