I got laid more often in the Olympic Village than during the rest of my life: From hook-ups to one-night stands, bed-hopping and orgies - what life behind Games security is really like

'What happens successful nan Village, stays successful nan Village.'

So goes nan unofficial motto of nan Olympic Games, which originates coming successful Paris. Over nan adjacent 3 weeks, nan City of Love will play big to much than 14,000 athletes from 206 countries successful nan world's biggest show of sporting competition, beingness prowess and – truthful insiders opportunity – intersexual exploits.

For down nan scenes of nan purpose-built Olympic Village, successful nan Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis, organisers are expecting a full batch much than training sessions and early nights.

Hook-ups, one-night stands, bed-hopping, orgies, alfresco activity and chaotic parties are conscionable immoderate of nan scandals reported astatine erstwhile Games.

Indeed, truthful rife is misbehaviour astatine nan Olympics, they've been compared to stone festivals, pinch immoderate athletes claiming location is 'more activity than Woodstock'.

Writing astir his acquisition wrong nan infamous Village, Matthew Syed, nan erstwhile British array tennis prima turned newspaper columnist, described it arsenic a 'sex fest'.

'I sewage laid much often successful those two-and-a-half weeks than successful nan remainder of my life up to that point,' he said of his first Olympics successful Barcelona successful 1992.

American swimmer Ryan Lochte, who won 12 medals crossed 4 Olympics, estimated pinch studied precision that betwixt 70 and 75 per cent of Olympians get friendly during nan Games.

This year, of course, nan title is taking spot successful perchance nan astir romanticist metropolis connected Earth, starring to speculation that it whitethorn beryllium nan raunchiest yet.

An astonishing 200,000 condoms will beryllium provided to athletes successful nan Village – almost 20 for each azygous competitor. 'Male condoms pinch and without latex each pinch a lubricant pouch,' promises a spokesperson. An further '20,000 female condoms' are connected offer, too.

Though this isn't a grounds (at nan Rio Olympics successful 2016, organisers provided 450,000 condoms, arsenic good arsenic 175,000 packets of lubricant).

The condoms – branded pinch nan Olympics mascot and slogans specified arsenic 'No request to beryllium a golden medallist to deterioration it' and 'On nan section of love, play adjacent and inquire for consent' – person been fixed to athletes arsenic portion of their invited pack.

Some person taken this arsenic a motion of nan liberal, almost encouraging, cognition to activity successful nan City of Love.

A argumentation of 'consent and pleasure' is successful spot successful Paris, according to Laurent Dalard, successful complaint of first assistance and wellness services astatine nan Games.

'There is simply a desire to beryllium very inclusive,' he said astatine a caller property conference, adding that nan organisers want nan Olympics to 'feel very enthusiastic and comfortable'.

'It is very important that conviviality present is thing big,' he explains.

One point perchance getting successful nan measurement of excessive fraternising betwixt athletes, however, is their beds – nan alleged 'anti-sex' beds, which first appeared astatine nan 2020 Olympics held successful Tokyo, are made from cardboard and different sustainable materials successful a bid to make them afloat recyclable.

Several athletes, including Team GB diver Tom Daley and Irish gymnast Rhys McClenaghan, person posted videos astir nan beds connected their societal media accounts, jokingly 'testing' them by doing rigorous jumps, bounces and moreover handstands connected nan flimsy-looking structure.

So far, it seems, they guidelines up to nan abuse.

And makers Airweave, nan furniture manufacturer, person bully news for athletes concerned they mightiness consciousness a tad lonely sleeping solo.

'We've conducted experiments, for illustration dropping weights connected apical of nan beds,' a typical says.

'As agelong arsenic they instrumentality to conscionable 2 group successful nan bed, they should beryllium beardown capable to support nan load.'

It's each very different to nan Tokyo Games held successful nan aftermath of nan Covid-19 pandemic, of course.

There was an intimacy ban, pinch athletes warned not to get excessively adjacent to 1 different – and surely not prosecute successful intersexual relations.

As 1 anonymous competitor successful Paris puts it: 'There's a batch of pent-up power this clip around.'

As you'd expect pinch specified laser-focused professionals, nan partying doesn't commencement immediately. According to Australian swimmer Bronte Campbell, nan first week is astir concentrating connected your sport, pinch astir of nan awesome heats scheduled to return place. It's aft that, erstwhile galore competitors person been knocked out, that nan nosy starts.

'In nan 2nd week, everyone lets disconnected a batch of steam.

'There's much than 10,000 athletes there, they're each young group successful their mid-20s who are super-fit, and they're free for nan first clip successful 4 years, truthful you tin ideate there's a batch of excitement.'

Inside nan Olympic Village, which is protected by airport-style security, athletes are housed successful dorm-style accommodation, categorised by country.

There are plentifulness of rules: nary outsiders - nary alcohol, nary fraternising pinch nan other activity successful bedrooms - and immoderate teams enforce curfews betwixt 10pm and 7am.

But rules, opportunity galore who've stayed successful nan Olympic Village successful nan past are made to beryllium broken.

In The Secret Olympian, an anonymous book published soon earlier London 2012, nan writer claims competitors regularly smuggle successful booze successful quiet h2o bottles and big raucous parties that tin past each night.

'Having completed nan competition, nan athletes request to do thing other to pain disconnected their boundless energy,' nan writer reveals.

'No three-hour training runs aliases weight-lifting now… for illustration thoroughbred racehorses which haven't had a tally retired for a while, they get frisky.

'You tin almost smell a good haze of testosterone and oestrogen wafting done nan air.'

When it comes to hook-ups, it's not difficult to meet like-minded, azygous sportsmen and women.

The usage of making love apps soars successful nan Olympic Village locale, pinch Tinder antecedently reporting a emergence successful usage of almost 350 per cent (and an uptick successful correct swipes – aliases successful matches – by 565 per cent), showing conscionable really eager athletes are to get together.

At Rio successful 2016, profiles from athletes of astir each athletics could beryllium recovered connected Tinder, pinch updates including 'Got plentifulness of clip to kill' and 'Looking for nosy successful Rio!'

At London 2012, nan cheery making love app Grindr reportedly collapsed owed to excessive usage wrong hours of nan athletes arriving astatine nan Village. While extra-marital affairs website Illicit Encounters offered athletes astatine nan London Olympics free rank during their enactment successful nan superior – thing galore took afloat advantage of.

As Cammi Granato, a erstwhile Olympic crystal lucky player, puts it: 'It's oculus candy each nan time. Everybody's checking everybody other retired from nan infinitesimal they get there.'

In Paris, competitors are spoilt for prime for communal areas to meet and mingle pinch others.

There's a immense canteen, respective gyms, a java shop and an outdoor 'bar' serving alcohol-free Coronas, arsenic good arsenic a 'Village Club' pinch large screens to watch nan sporting action and play array shot aliases pool.

And, of course, a wellness session pinch a dedicated intersexual wellness squad that tin dainty up to 700 patients a day, should nan request arise. Paris 2024 is peculiarly delicate astir STI prevention and will beryllium utilizing banners and flyers arsenic portion of an consciousness campaign, a spokesperson said.

This whitethorn look overkill for a mounting that is, connected nan extracurricular astatine least, dedicated to sport, but tales from Games gone by propose that athletes are prone to taking things a small excessively acold erstwhile it comes to their off-duty behaviour.

Hope Solo, a erstwhile shot goalkeeper for Team USA, has revealed steamy goings-on astatine erstwhile Olympic Games, including nan admittance she slept pinch a 'celebrity' athlete, by sneaking him into her room astatine Beijing successful 2008.

'There's a batch of activity going on. Athletes are extremists.

'When they're training, it's laser focus. When they spell retired for a drink, it's 20 drinks.

'With a once-in-a-lifetime experience, you want to build memories, whether it's sexual, partying aliases connected nan field.

'I've seen group having activity correct retired successful nan open. On nan grass, betwixt buildings, group are getting down and dirty.'

Greek runner Alexi Pappas, who competed successful 2016, recalled regular parties successful nan Village, 'often successful nan excavation extracurricular my building, and ever good past my bedtime'.

So X-rated were nan athletes astatine 1 erstwhile Olympics – Seoul successful 1988 – that nan organising committee had to prohibition outdoor sex, aft condoms (presumably thrown from chamber windows) kept being recovered connected nan tile of athletes' accommodation.

At nan Winter Olympics successful Vancouver successful 2010, a group of Canadian, German and Austrian athletes reportedly had an orgy extracurricular a location wrong nan Village.

'It was a late-night whirlpool party,' 1 subordinate admitted. 'It turned into a whirlpool orgy.'

So what astir Team GB? While nary jock has gone connected nan grounds admitting to intersexual exploits astatine nan Games, plentifulness person shared anonymous stories that put their sporting prowess to shame.

Speaking aft London 2012, a high-profile personnel of Team GB revealed he and a teammate had had a foursome pinch 2 Ukrainian competitors, whom they sneaked into their dorm room by bribing nan information defender pinch Olympics-branded souvenirs.

'You person a batch of good-looking group wearing very small successful nan aforesaid spot – of people things will happen,' he revealed.

'You could person slept pinch a different female each different nighttime of nan Games if you wanted to. More if you had your ain room, for illustration immoderate of nan athletes did.

'In fact, immoderate of nan much arrogant athletes would opportunity they could person a female from a different state each nighttime of nan Games.'

Winning a medal, peculiarly if it's gold, he added, brings a benignant of intersexual rate which makes you irresistible.

'Everyone wants to talk to you, bargain you a portion aliases conscionable beryllium seen pinch you.

'Members of nan other activity attack and effort desperately to get you into bed.'

Once their title ends, aliases they're retired of nan badge contention, athletes are instructed to time off nan Village wrong 48 hours, aft which their information walk stops working.

These 48 hours, nan anonymous Team GB jock reveals, are erstwhile group misbehave nan most, a past blast of state earlier returning home.

Some competitors time off nan Village and spell retired to bars, clubs and moreover portion joints, wherever nan better-known athletes are whisked to nan beforehand of queues and fixed typical treatment.

For those contented to enactment successful their dorms, there's nary request to miss out: PornHub, nan pornographic website, has noted spikes successful viewers during successive Games.

That's not to opportunity that life successful nan Olympic Village is each astir shallow hook-ups; plentifulness person started meaningful relationships astatine nan Games.

Track and section stars Ann Packer and her precocious hubby Robbie Brightwell were nan aureate mates of nan 1964 Olympics successful Toyko - they later went connected to wed and person 3 children.

And tennis ace Roger Federer met his wife, Swiss tennis subordinate Mirka Vavrinec, erstwhile they were some staying astatine nan Olympic Village successful Sydney successful 2000, erstwhile he was 18 and she was 21.

'I conjecture complete nan 2 weeks, we built up immoderate chemistry,' he said successful a later interview, revealing that they shared their first buss connected nan last time of nan event.

With nan excitement of Paris each earlier us, who knows what will hap down nan scenes astatine nan Village wherever – arsenic Matthew Syed puts it – it's 'as overmuch astir activity as… astir sport'.

One thing's for certain: it's going to beryllium a sizzling basking summer.