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No qualifying round for frantic Olympics sex scene
`Hard to hold back': As a thousand free condoms per day fly from
machines at the athletes' village, competitors of both sexes say the scene is
set for after-hours action
August 26, 2004
Four years ago the winning medal went to Cuba, thanks to a remark from
Australian basketball player Michelle Trims: "The Cubans are using up condoms
as if they're about to go out of fashion."
This time around the talk of sex is slightly more discreet, but matters are
still exciting when it comes to the unofficial "sport" going on in the
suffocating summer heat at the Athens Games.
The debate about whether athletes should have sex or refrain on the night
before a big competition was yet again broached by the Greek newspaper Ta Nea.
The newspaper found some surprising opinions: German physicians and Russian
psychologists are in favor of sexual relations prior to a big sports event, but
Israeli experts only approve of sex in the case of women athletes.
"If the athlete is conditioned by social or religious factors, the influence of
sex is negative. But it has not been proved scientifically that sex before
competing has a negative effect," said Tassos Stalikas, a Greek sports
psychologist.
Durex gave 130,000 condoms and 30,000 portions of lubricating creams to Olympic
village administrators for use by athletes. That was 40,000 more than the
90,000 distributed in Sydney, but considerably lower than the 250,000 condoms
given away at the Salt Lake City 2002 winter games.
"It's hard to hold back and be modest when faced with so many good-looking
people here," Canadian rower Marni McBin was quoted as saying by German
newspaper Bild, which gave a detailed account of the sex lives of athletes.
"There are no preliminaries," said German hockey player Christian Blunck, who
earned a gold medal in Barcelona. "Everyone gets straight to the point. After
all, these are athletes in perfect physical shape. And there's no time to
spare."
"It's heaven for men," exclaimed Christian Keller, spokesman for German
athletes.
The topic of sex seems to make village administrators uncomfortable. "One
thousand condoms were distributed, but I think they were taken as souvenirs,"
an administrator said.
The figure is right, it is 1,000 condoms, but every day. That's the number of
condoms athletes take every 24 hours from machines near the village clinic.
Those are in addition to the ones given to athletes as gifts when they arrive.
The Athens Olympic Games Organizing Committee was scandalized by the Greek
edition of Playboy which ran a feature about "2004 seconds of ecstasy" and
another about "seeking the gold in the sexathlon" next to five condoms
displayed as the famous Olympic rings.
The Greek edition of Men's Health also analyzed the subject of sex and sports.
According to the magazine, male swimmers have the best staying power and French
athletes most frequently have sex.
Perhaps the Cuban gold medal won at Sydney is at risk this summer.
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