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THE NAKED ATHLETES aren’t even the best thing about ESPN The Magazine’s “Body Issue.”
Instead, Sam Alipour’s amazing feature on the ungodly amounts of sex and partying that goes on in the Olympic Village is the highlight.
Alipour spoke with a bunch of former Olympians, who revealed that the Village is one one crazy place.
Many of the athletes opened up and told Alipour crazy stories to illustrate how insane the Village gets. These stories include everything from Hope Solo doing the Today Show drunk the morning after cozying up to a celebrity, to a javelin competitor having sex with three women per day in order to stay relaxed.
At the 2000 Olympics, javelin competitor Breaux Greer had sex with three women every day
Hope Solo snuck a celebrity into her room after winning gold in 2008, but won't say who
Solo and the women's team then did the Today Show drunk the next morning
The organisers of the 2000 Olympics ordered 70,000 condoms. It was not enough
I've seen people having sex right out in the open. On the grass, between buildings, people are getting down and dirty
Swimmer Amanda Beard said Olympians 'walk around for miles trying to sneak somewhere' if they are given curfews
Skier Carrie Sheinberg said two German bobsledders tried to trade her their gold medals for 'some group fun' at the 1994 Games
At the end of the 2000 Games, the Australian team threw a bonfire and burned a bunch of furniture from the Village
The teens are involved too! Shawn Johnson and cyclist Taylor Phinney struck up a relationship in Beijing
By the tail-end of the Games, athletes who are done competing stay out to 7 a.m., greeting still-competing athletes as they head to their events
At the 1976 Olympics, 16-year-old Greg Louganis cozied up to the Soviet diving team, and saw one married male Soviet diver hooking up with his teammate
As it turns out, all the athletes are insanely wasted during the Closing Ceremony
The party continues on the plane ride home
The feature isn’t online until tomorrow, go find it then…
- Tony Manfred
