{"id":5490,"date":"2012-08-01T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=5490"},"modified":"2012-12-29T01:53:35","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T06:53:35","slug":"sex-and-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/sex-and-the-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex And The Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/080112_0239_SexAndTheOl1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"411\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What happens when you put together thousands of the fittest athletes in the world, in the prime of their youth? Let&#8217;s just say that if the Olympics were held between Greek city-states today, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/mn\/search\/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;tag=centives-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;field-keywords=trojan&amp;url=search-alias%3Daps\">Trojans<\/a> would have a lot to boast about. Sam Alipour reports:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the 2000 Sydney games the 70,000 condoms available weren&#8217;t enough and an additional 20,000 had to be ordered. Now the standard is for 100,000 to be in place before the games begin.<\/li>\n<li>One Olympian estimates that up to 75% of the athletes have sex in the Olympics village, which is off-limits to all but the competitors. &#8220;It&#8217;s like Vegas.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Striking up conversations with people of the opposite sex is easy. You simply ask them what sport they play.<\/li>\n<li>The Italians are the most promiscuous.<\/li>\n<li>One athlete says she prefers swimmers, water polo players, and track-team runners.<\/li>\n<li>Some have blamed sex for underperformance during the actual games. It can become such a distraction that some coaches enforce a curfew and ban cross-gender dorm visitations.<\/li>\n<li>There are deeper issues involved. Training is intense and it&#8217;s difficult to meet new people. In the Olympic village athletes are suddenly put with a group of people who understand exactly what it&#8217;s like.<\/li>\n<li>Part of the appeal is that you&#8217;re unlikely to see the same group of athletes ever again.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To find out why this is natural for Olympians who are all extremists, the challenges they set themselves, many choice quotes (including: &#8220;This time, when I&#8217;m done leaving my legacy on the track, I&#8217;ll make sure London remembers me.&#8221;), why the swimmers are lucky, the panties, bras and underwear that people walk around in, where the sex takes place, what happens if you can&#8217;t pick which one you want to be with, the cultural differences among the different nations, why it&#8217;s like college, what happens to the adolescent athletes, what a gold medal can get you, and the experiences of various Olympians click <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/olympics\/summer\/2012\/story\/_\/id\/8133052\/athletes-spill-details-dirty-secrets-olympic-village-espn-magazine\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/olympics\/summer\/2012\/story\/_\/id\/8133052\/athletes-spill-details-dirty-secrets-olympic-village-espn-magazine\">ESPN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when you put together thousands of the fittest athletes in the world, in the prime of their youth? Let&#8217;s just say that if the Olympics were held between Greek city-states today, the Trojans would have a lot to boast about. Sam Alipour reports: In the 2000 Sydney games the 70,000 condoms available weren&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","category-signature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/080112_0239_SexAndTheOl1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5490"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7432,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490\/revisions\/7432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}