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Paris 2024 Summer Olympics: Thank you, France!🥇🥈🥉
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Hopefully USATF doesn't repeat the **** show from Tokyo. Starting with the Mixed relay team. Better not put out a B team again and lose to the Bahamas or the Netherlands to give away the gold
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Big shot RJ 
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World record 3:08! Damn
Edit: 3:07.41
Edit: 3:07.41
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WR record already that's fast.
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Crushed the mixed 4x400
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Lawd the 2 British gals in the 4x400.
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I wonder if they'll attempt to switch anyone out for the final even though they really don't need to.
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got mixed up for some reason i thought they were in this relay this yr
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Word. Hard to argue now with setting the WR too. Wanted to see the kid get a chance.
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The Olympic Games and sex – is it a myth or a ‘free for all’?
“What happens in the (athletes) village, stays in the village,” former Team USA Olympic swimmer Summer Sanders once said.
With the Paris Olympics in full swing, that sentiment might apply more than ever, because this is the first Games in eight years where mingling and meet-ups can take place after the “intimacy ban” and social distancing rules at the Covid-19-disrupted Tokyo Games in 2021.
With that in mind, 200,000 male condoms, 20,000 female condoms and 10,000 dental dams — which work by acting as a barrier during oral sex — have been made available in the Olympic Village, where 14,500 athletes and staff are staying during the Games.
That is enough for almost two each for every day of the Games.
“It is very important that the conviviality (in the Olympic Village) is something big,” Laurent Michaud, director of the village, said before the Games. “Working with the athletes’ commission, we wanted to create places where the athletes would feel very enthusiastic and comfortable.”
The supply of free condoms has become an Olympic tradition that began at the Barcelona Games in 1992.
In 2016, Rio de Janeiro broke records, supplying 450,000 condoms, including 100,000 female ones for the first time. Athletes were even given condoms at the no-sex Tokyo Games three years ago, but as souvenirs to keep, rather than to use.
In Paris, there are sexual health testing centres, as well as an educational campaign that raises awareness around consent and safety. The condom wrappers carry messages that emphasise seeking consent and reminding athletes of the dangers of sexually transmitted infections.
In the village, the athletes sleep on beds with a cardboard base — the same type as those used in Tokyo — designed with sustainability in mind. When the competitors arrived, their size and weight were measured in a ‘mattress fitting zone’ for what is supposed to provide the ideal mattress density.
The beds, constructed using recycled cardboard, led to some athletes describing them as “anti-sex” beds because it was suggested they might collapse.
Videos shared last week of Team GB’s Tom Daley and Irish gymnast Rhys McClenaghan jumping on the beds debunked that myth.
“I was a marathon runner, so I appreciate how important it is to have a good sleep before an event,” says the bed’s Japanese inventor Motokuni Takaoka. “They would take two or three people with no worries. They are very robust. The cardboard base is very tough. They will cope with anything the athletes want to do with themselves or their friends.”
The antics of athletes in the Olympic Village have long been documented.
At the 2012 London Olympics, Usain Bolt celebrated his 100m victory late into the night in his room with three members of the Swedish women’s handball team.
Following that, he won two more gold medals in the 200m and the 4x100m for Jamaica. Bolt was photographed with a 20-year-old Brazilian student in his bed in the Olympic Village after winning three more gold medals at Rio in 2016.
The athletes arrived in the Olympic Village — spread across the three Parisian suburbs of Saint-Denis, Saint Ouen and L’ile Saint-Denis in the north of the city — a few days before the rain-soaked opening ceremony down the River Seine.
“It’s like the first day of college,” Tony Azevedo, who appeared at five Olympic Games for the United States’ water polo team, told ESPN. “You’re nervous, super excited. Everyone’s meeting people and trying to hook up with someone.”
The dining hall area is typically the central hub of the Olympic Village — and where there have been complaints about the food quality.
Away from the canteen, there is the ‘village club’, a place to socialise and enjoy the ‘disconnection bubble’, which has a screenless area and massaging seat. It has an outdoor bar — serving alcohol-free drinks — and lounge chairs. If Olympians want to drink alcohol, they must bring it in themselves.
The camaraderie means the village becomes a “pretty wild scene, the biggest melting pot you’ve been in,” says Eric Shanteau, an American swimmer who appeared at the 2008 and 2012 Games.
“There’s a lot of sex going on,” former U.S. soccer goalkeeper Hope Solo once said. “I’ve seen people having sex right out in the open.”
Andrew Pink, Great Britain’s volleyball captain in 2012, told The Athletic: “We had 10 days competing and after that, it was a free-for-all. Our coaches left the village the next day and it was then up to you to do whatever you wanted. I didn’t see people for days, including my room-mate, they were all over the place. One guy from our team legitimately woke up in Wales after a night out in his Team GB kit.
“When we were still competing, you were leaving the village through the security checkpoint to get onto the coach to get to the training venue or competition, which for us was in Earl’s Court, so right across the city. And at all hours of the day, people were coming back worse for wear.
“The sex thing isn’t a myth. People are looking at everybody else all the time, everyone is in the prime of their fitness and their athletic lives, a lot of people will have foregone everything they possibly can to get to that point — it’s a massive release when it’s over. By all accounts, when the swimming finishes is when it gets really crazy.”
Footballer Micah Richards represented Team GB in 2012 when they lost to South Korea in the quarter-final.
Regaling tales of life in the Olympic Village on podcast The Rest Is Football, he said: “We went to training, came back to the village, then three nights we were up to 4am. You have different campuses, Team GB in one block, Brazil, France, all these countries, and there’s a massive big room full of condoms! It was like: ‘What?’ Obviously promoting safe sex and, honest to god, I was on fire. One of the best times of my life, it was incredible.”
In his autobiography, Greg Rutherford, who won gold for Team GB in the long jump in 2012, said: “I was staggered by how many people got absolutely smashed and the bedroom-hopping that took place.”
In Paris, Team GB divers Jack Laugher and Noah Williams are using adult-only platform ******** to top up their income.
However, others suggest the idea of the Olympic Village as a hotbed of sex is overblown.
“I went to four Olympics and I don’t feel like: ‘Oh, there’s just tons of sex going on,’” Bonnie Blair, a gold medal-winning speed skater for the U.S., told NBC. “I’m sure there are… things that happen. But it’s not like it’s all that happens.”
“If you are in the shape of your life and you’ve trained hard, the only thing that’s going to be detrimental to your performance is if you’ve had no sleep,” added Kelly Sotherton, who won three bronze medals for Team GB across the 2004 and 2008 Olympics
And this week, American rower Emily Delleman said she was disappointed by the lack of activity from fellow Olympians on dating app Tinder.
The party can start early for some athletes. The men’s and women’s rugby sevens tournaments, for example, have ended.
“People finish at different times in the Games,” Team GB weightlifter Emily Campbell explained on the Stirring It Up podcast. “It’s on for two weeks but the swimmers, the rowers, they’ll start in the first week. I’m not until the final day. There are bowls of condoms around because they know it happens.”
This all typically culminates in a big party after the closing ceremony, which is on August 11.
This year, some teams, including Australia and Great Britain, have told athletes they must leave within 48 hours of their last event to avoid disrupting those still competing. That rule was brought in at Tokyo during the pandemic-hit Games.
This led to frustration from some athletes. “After you’ve worked so hard to go to the Olympics, to be removed from that entire environment as soon as you finish,” Australian swimmer Ariarne Titmus said before winning gold in the 400m freestyle. “It’s a bit of a rip-off.” She later complained about the poor conditions in the Olympic Village.
“It does make me mad,” said her team-mate Kaylee McKeown, who won gold in the 100m backstroke on Tuesday night.
The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) said the decision was taken because there were not enough beds in the village for the entire team if they all stayed. AOC chief executive Matt Carroll said athletes would be allowed to return for the closing ceremony, but they would have to find their own accommodation in between.
Team GB said all athletes could return for the closing ceremony, with accommodation and transport provided that day/night.
Even after the Covid-hit Games in Tokyo, the city of love still has a lot to live up to if it wants to recreate the wild stories of Olympics gone by.
“What happens in the (athletes) village, stays in the village,” former Team USA Olympic swimmer Summer Sanders once said.
With the Paris Olympics in full swing, that sentiment might apply more than ever, because this is the first Games in eight years where mingling and meet-ups can take place after the “intimacy ban” and social distancing rules at the Covid-19-disrupted Tokyo Games in 2021.
With that in mind, 200,000 male condoms, 20,000 female condoms and 10,000 dental dams — which work by acting as a barrier during oral sex — have been made available in the Olympic Village, where 14,500 athletes and staff are staying during the Games.
That is enough for almost two each for every day of the Games.
“It is very important that the conviviality (in the Olympic Village) is something big,” Laurent Michaud, director of the village, said before the Games. “Working with the athletes’ commission, we wanted to create places where the athletes would feel very enthusiastic and comfortable.”
The supply of free condoms has become an Olympic tradition that began at the Barcelona Games in 1992.
In 2016, Rio de Janeiro broke records, supplying 450,000 condoms, including 100,000 female ones for the first time. Athletes were even given condoms at the no-sex Tokyo Games three years ago, but as souvenirs to keep, rather than to use.
In Paris, there are sexual health testing centres, as well as an educational campaign that raises awareness around consent and safety. The condom wrappers carry messages that emphasise seeking consent and reminding athletes of the dangers of sexually transmitted infections.
In the village, the athletes sleep on beds with a cardboard base — the same type as those used in Tokyo — designed with sustainability in mind. When the competitors arrived, their size and weight were measured in a ‘mattress fitting zone’ for what is supposed to provide the ideal mattress density.
The beds, constructed using recycled cardboard, led to some athletes describing them as “anti-sex” beds because it was suggested they might collapse.
Videos shared last week of Team GB’s Tom Daley and Irish gymnast Rhys McClenaghan jumping on the beds debunked that myth.
“I was a marathon runner, so I appreciate how important it is to have a good sleep before an event,” says the bed’s Japanese inventor Motokuni Takaoka. “They would take two or three people with no worries. They are very robust. The cardboard base is very tough. They will cope with anything the athletes want to do with themselves or their friends.”
The antics of athletes in the Olympic Village have long been documented.
At the 2012 London Olympics, Usain Bolt celebrated his 100m victory late into the night in his room with three members of the Swedish women’s handball team.
Following that, he won two more gold medals in the 200m and the 4x100m for Jamaica. Bolt was photographed with a 20-year-old Brazilian student in his bed in the Olympic Village after winning three more gold medals at Rio in 2016.
The athletes arrived in the Olympic Village — spread across the three Parisian suburbs of Saint-Denis, Saint Ouen and L’ile Saint-Denis in the north of the city — a few days before the rain-soaked opening ceremony down the River Seine.
“It’s like the first day of college,” Tony Azevedo, who appeared at five Olympic Games for the United States’ water polo team, told ESPN. “You’re nervous, super excited. Everyone’s meeting people and trying to hook up with someone.”
The dining hall area is typically the central hub of the Olympic Village — and where there have been complaints about the food quality.
Away from the canteen, there is the ‘village club’, a place to socialise and enjoy the ‘disconnection bubble’, which has a screenless area and massaging seat. It has an outdoor bar — serving alcohol-free drinks — and lounge chairs. If Olympians want to drink alcohol, they must bring it in themselves.
The camaraderie means the village becomes a “pretty wild scene, the biggest melting pot you’ve been in,” says Eric Shanteau, an American swimmer who appeared at the 2008 and 2012 Games.
“There’s a lot of sex going on,” former U.S. soccer goalkeeper Hope Solo once said. “I’ve seen people having sex right out in the open.”
Andrew Pink, Great Britain’s volleyball captain in 2012, told The Athletic: “We had 10 days competing and after that, it was a free-for-all. Our coaches left the village the next day and it was then up to you to do whatever you wanted. I didn’t see people for days, including my room-mate, they were all over the place. One guy from our team legitimately woke up in Wales after a night out in his Team GB kit.
“When we were still competing, you were leaving the village through the security checkpoint to get onto the coach to get to the training venue or competition, which for us was in Earl’s Court, so right across the city. And at all hours of the day, people were coming back worse for wear.
“The sex thing isn’t a myth. People are looking at everybody else all the time, everyone is in the prime of their fitness and their athletic lives, a lot of people will have foregone everything they possibly can to get to that point — it’s a massive release when it’s over. By all accounts, when the swimming finishes is when it gets really crazy.”
Footballer Micah Richards represented Team GB in 2012 when they lost to South Korea in the quarter-final.
Regaling tales of life in the Olympic Village on podcast The Rest Is Football, he said: “We went to training, came back to the village, then three nights we were up to 4am. You have different campuses, Team GB in one block, Brazil, France, all these countries, and there’s a massive big room full of condoms! It was like: ‘What?’ Obviously promoting safe sex and, honest to god, I was on fire. One of the best times of my life, it was incredible.”
In his autobiography, Greg Rutherford, who won gold for Team GB in the long jump in 2012, said: “I was staggered by how many people got absolutely smashed and the bedroom-hopping that took place.”
In Paris, Team GB divers Jack Laugher and Noah Williams are using adult-only platform ******** to top up their income.
However, others suggest the idea of the Olympic Village as a hotbed of sex is overblown.
“I went to four Olympics and I don’t feel like: ‘Oh, there’s just tons of sex going on,’” Bonnie Blair, a gold medal-winning speed skater for the U.S., told NBC. “I’m sure there are… things that happen. But it’s not like it’s all that happens.”
“If you are in the shape of your life and you’ve trained hard, the only thing that’s going to be detrimental to your performance is if you’ve had no sleep,” added Kelly Sotherton, who won three bronze medals for Team GB across the 2004 and 2008 Olympics
And this week, American rower Emily Delleman said she was disappointed by the lack of activity from fellow Olympians on dating app Tinder.
The party can start early for some athletes. The men’s and women’s rugby sevens tournaments, for example, have ended.
“People finish at different times in the Games,” Team GB weightlifter Emily Campbell explained on the Stirring It Up podcast. “It’s on for two weeks but the swimmers, the rowers, they’ll start in the first week. I’m not until the final day. There are bowls of condoms around because they know it happens.”
This all typically culminates in a big party after the closing ceremony, which is on August 11.
This year, some teams, including Australia and Great Britain, have told athletes they must leave within 48 hours of their last event to avoid disrupting those still competing. That rule was brought in at Tokyo during the pandemic-hit Games.
This led to frustration from some athletes. “After you’ve worked so hard to go to the Olympics, to be removed from that entire environment as soon as you finish,” Australian swimmer Ariarne Titmus said before winning gold in the 400m freestyle. “It’s a bit of a rip-off.” She later complained about the poor conditions in the Olympic Village.
“It does make me mad,” said her team-mate Kaylee McKeown, who won gold in the 100m backstroke on Tuesday night.
The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) said the decision was taken because there were not enough beds in the village for the entire team if they all stayed. AOC chief executive Matt Carroll said athletes would be allowed to return for the closing ceremony, but they would have to find their own accommodation in between.
Team GB said all athletes could return for the closing ceremony, with accommodation and transport provided that day/night.
Even after the Covid-hit Games in Tokyo, the city of love still has a lot to live up to if it wants to recreate the wild stories of Olympics gone by.
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50m Freestyle gonna be good.
Used to see her and her twin at the gym back in the day. Was surprised when I saw them on TV.
Lawd the 2 British gals in the 4x400.
Used to see her and her twin at the gym back in the day. Was surprised when I saw them on TV.
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2 black swimmers were in this 50 free final too with Crooks and Liendo
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Oly record for Mckeown as she repeats and sweeps again as Olympic backstroke champ. That's now 4 finals and 4 gold medals for her there between Tokyo and Paris 
Regan Smith with Silver and Masse with Bronze. Thought she was about to get caught up by the other American at the end
Regan Smith with Silver and Masse with Bronze. Thought she was about to get caught up by the other American at the end
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French Phelps Marchand coming up again in the 200m individual medley final, looking to win his 4th gold so far in Paris...
Got the ENTIRE arena on their feet chanting 'LEON' before it starts
Got the ENTIRE arena on their feet chanting 'LEON' before it starts
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Superstar Marchand with another Olympic record to make it 4 for 4
Literally 6 hundredths of a second off a new world record wow, that was probably his most dominant race so far at these games
Literally 6 hundredths of a second off a new world record wow, that was probably his most dominant race so far at these games
