"Home to more than 10,000 athletes at the Summer Games and 2,700 at the Winter, the Olympic Village is one of the world's most exclusive clubs. To join, prospective members need only have spectacular talent and -- we long assumed -- a chaste devotion to the most intense competition of their lives. But the image of a celibate Games began to flicker in '92 when it was reported that the Games' organizers had ordered in prophylactics like pizza. Then, at the 2000 Sydney Games, 70,000 condoms wasn't enough, prompting a second order of 20,000 and a new standing order of 100,000 condoms per Olympics."
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Sam Alipour, ESPN The Magazine(Note: Article contains sexual themes and descriptions.)
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Now, I'm not saying that Sam Alipour deliberately wrote a false article. It's possible that the athletes interviewed were messing with him, were giving him what he wanted to hear, or were simply lying to him to brag about things they never actually did. I just wonder how true the article is. It's quite hard to believe that someone would put months of discipline at risk as described. I agree that we should remember athletes are sinners too, and that, after all, the original Olympics were performed in the nude for the arousal of the spectators (and modern Olympics are getting ever closer to that original), but I think some skepticism of the supposed Bacchanalia is warranted.
On the other hand, maybe Eric Liddell's sister Jennie was right.