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For certain team sports such as soccer and basketball, chances are that Haiti or Cuba won't be qualifying. And if a one person or a few people can change that, you should probably be a pro
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[h1]London Athletes Face Post-Olympic Blues[/h1][h2]Depression. Alcoholism. Despair. A surprising number of former Olympians find grim fates waiting after the Games go dark. Tony Dokoupil on how new research explains athletes’ post-Games psychological meltdowns.[/h2]by Tony Dokoupil | August 14, 2012 4:45 AM EDT
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“He’s pretty athletic,” I said, watching my 3-year-old son crisscross a playground recently. My wife agreed. “But who cares if he’s sporty?” she wondered. “What’s it good for?”
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French Olympians high-jumper Melanie Skotnik, left, and Marlene Harnois who won a bronze medal in the Taekwondo women's -57kg category, push luggage as they leave the athlete's village to board a train after the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Monday, Aug. 13, 2012. (Matt Dunham / AP Photo)
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That’s precisely the concern likely to bridle the minds of returning Olympians, now that the torch of the 2012 Games has expired, ending the world’s greatest ego-dream: 16-days of rapturous crowd-waving, flag-draping fluid loss.
http://
After the buzz of Sunday’s send-off party, and the liquid lobotomy that is night life in London, Monday was a time for dry-swallowing hangover cures and packing up the Olympic village.
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That makes today, Tuesday, the true start of the post-Olympic period: the athletes’ first morning in Smallville, with the time to think about their next acts. A select few (Usain Bolt, Lebron James) can expect lucrative endorsement deals and no end to the cheering crowds. But if researchers and past performers are right, most of London’s stars, whether they are retiring or just rebooting for Rio, are in for a grueling experience—a battle with the black dog likely to test them even more than their sporting rivals.
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“Ordinary life is a lot different than viewing the world from the lofty vantage point of Mount Olympus,” two-time U.S. Olympian Taraje Murray-Williams wrote on his personal blog, after coming home from the judo competition in Beijing. “Nothing feels like it can ‘go back to normal.’” The Bronx native’s life in New York City was “sickeningly mundane” next to the “superhero status” of the games, “the sense of fate, destiny—[of] being part of something so big, [so] universal. You are on stage and the whole world is watching you!”
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When the world moves on, Olympians come down with a condition that Murray-Williams and his former coach Rhadi Ferguson dubbed: Post-Olympic Stress Disorder, or POSD. The affliction is a given, Murray-Williams argues. “Interview Michael Phelps in a few and even he’ll have his own story to share.”
http://
That’s a grand prediction but not an unsupported one. The afterlife of Olympic medal-winners bears out the maxim that the higher you fly, the harder you fall. After his 1976 decathlon triumph in Montreal, Bruce Jenner told a reporter that he felt “devastated by the finality of it all,” unmoored, with “no plans, nothing,” And he got off easy.
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Tony Dokoupil talks with the New York Observer's Foster Kamer and the New York Times' Tanzina Vega about boring Olympians.
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The diver Greg Louganis went from the “super-high high” of his first Olympics to an inexplicable “low low” that culminated in a suicide attempt. The Australian Shane Gould, who was also a teenager, won five swimming medals in Munich in 1972 and then suffered through two decades of depression back home. But the U.S. diver Mark Lenzi came down with perhaps the worst case of POSD. After he won gold in Barcelona in 1992, he expected to inherit Louganis’ fame only to belly-flop into a self-described diet of “burgers, burritos, and beers.” Finally, somewhere near bottom, he told a reporter he planned to sell his medal.
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Leane Shapton didn’t even make the Olympics—she finished 8th in the breast stroke at the 1988 Canadian trials—and yet, as she recounts in a new memoir, she remains haunted by the sport. “I still dream of practice, of races, coaches and blurry competitors,” she writes. “I step into the water as though absent-mindedly touching a scar.” Even F. Scott Fitzgerald knew something of POSD in the 1920s when, in writing The Great Gatsby, he described a former elite athlete as “one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at 21 that everything afterward savors of anticlimax.”
http://
The further one looks back, the more the POSD case studies pile up. It’s not a diagnosis found in any academic study, but related research is out there, and has been for a long time. A 1982 study of Czech Olympians found that more than 8 in 10 suffered serious substance abuse and emotional problems on the road back to regular life. By comparison American Olympians are positively stoic: only 40 percent suffer serious problems after retiring, according to a 1997 study that looked at 57 athletes across a dozen sports. A string of studies have found that former athletes in general are at greater risk of succumbing to a life of drink, drugs, blue moods, and self-harm than the population at large.
http://
It’s easy to appreciate what’s happening here. Olympic athletes start young, giving everything to their sport, and getting everything they need in return. When that sport is gone, so is the athletes’ world. Sports psychologists describe a “mourning period.” The athletes themselves speak in terms of a void, an absence. “The air has come out of the tires,” the Canadian rower Iain Brambell said in 2008. “Without fear of being politically incorrect,” his countrymen Curt Harnett, a three-time medal-winning cyclist, added, “I would liken it to postpartum depression.”
http://
The latest research suggests that POSD, or whatever one wants to call it, is not just an emotional change. It’s a biological one. Exercise can create a chemical high much like a drug, according to recent work by scientists at Tufts University, and when it’s removed depression and anxiety may crowd the mind.
http://
Whatever the explanation, many countries are beginning to recognize the perils of peak athletic performance—and launching programs to help their athletes rejoin the world of couch potatoes. The British, Australian, and American Olympic committees are providing post-Games counseling to all athletes, in addition to career training—help with résumés, interview skills, applications. Nonprofit organizations and sports therapy centers, some launched by ex-Olympians themselves, provide similar services.
http://
Which is all for the good, of course. But if given the option, I think I’d rather my son skip any chance at Olympic glory. He can end up more like Eric Idle, who, shot from a canon at Sunday’s closing ceremony, landed with his simple solution to the post-Olympic blues: “Always look on the bright side of life.”
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[h1]London Athletes Face Post-Olympic Blues[/h1][h2]Depression. Alcoholism. Despair. A surprising number of former Olympians find grim fates waiting after the Games go dark. Tony Dokoupil on how new research explains athletes’ post-Games psychological meltdowns.[/h2]by Tony Dokoupil | August 14, 2012 4:45 AM EDT
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“He’s pretty athletic,” I said, watching my 3-year-old son crisscross a playground recently. My wife agreed. “But who cares if he’s sporty?” she wondered. “What’s it good for?”
http://
French Olympians high-jumper Melanie Skotnik, left, and Marlene Harnois who won a bronze medal in the Taekwondo women's -57kg category, push luggage as they leave the athlete's village to board a train after the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Monday, Aug. 13, 2012. (Matt Dunham / AP Photo)
http://
That’s precisely the concern likely to bridle the minds of returning Olympians, now that the torch of the 2012 Games has expired, ending the world’s greatest ego-dream: 16-days of rapturous crowd-waving, flag-draping fluid loss.
http://
After the buzz of Sunday’s send-off party, and the liquid lobotomy that is night life in London, Monday was a time for dry-swallowing hangover cures and packing up the Olympic village.
http://http://
That makes today, Tuesday, the true start of the post-Olympic period: the athletes’ first morning in Smallville, with the time to think about their next acts. A select few (Usain Bolt, Lebron James) can expect lucrative endorsement deals and no end to the cheering crowds. But if researchers and past performers are right, most of London’s stars, whether they are retiring or just rebooting for Rio, are in for a grueling experience—a battle with the black dog likely to test them even more than their sporting rivals.
http://
“Ordinary life is a lot different than viewing the world from the lofty vantage point of Mount Olympus,” two-time U.S. Olympian Taraje Murray-Williams wrote on his personal blog, after coming home from the judo competition in Beijing. “Nothing feels like it can ‘go back to normal.’” The Bronx native’s life in New York City was “sickeningly mundane” next to the “superhero status” of the games, “the sense of fate, destiny—[of] being part of something so big, [so] universal. You are on stage and the whole world is watching you!”
http://
When the world moves on, Olympians come down with a condition that Murray-Williams and his former coach Rhadi Ferguson dubbed: Post-Olympic Stress Disorder, or POSD. The affliction is a given, Murray-Williams argues. “Interview Michael Phelps in a few and even he’ll have his own story to share.”
http://
That’s a grand prediction but not an unsupported one. The afterlife of Olympic medal-winners bears out the maxim that the higher you fly, the harder you fall. After his 1976 decathlon triumph in Montreal, Bruce Jenner told a reporter that he felt “devastated by the finality of it all,” unmoored, with “no plans, nothing,” And he got off easy.
http://
Tony Dokoupil talks with the New York Observer's Foster Kamer and the New York Times' Tanzina Vega about boring Olympians.
http://
The diver Greg Louganis went from the “super-high high” of his first Olympics to an inexplicable “low low” that culminated in a suicide attempt. The Australian Shane Gould, who was also a teenager, won five swimming medals in Munich in 1972 and then suffered through two decades of depression back home. But the U.S. diver Mark Lenzi came down with perhaps the worst case of POSD. After he won gold in Barcelona in 1992, he expected to inherit Louganis’ fame only to belly-flop into a self-described diet of “burgers, burritos, and beers.” Finally, somewhere near bottom, he told a reporter he planned to sell his medal.
http://
Leane Shapton didn’t even make the Olympics—she finished 8th in the breast stroke at the 1988 Canadian trials—and yet, as she recounts in a new memoir, she remains haunted by the sport. “I still dream of practice, of races, coaches and blurry competitors,” she writes. “I step into the water as though absent-mindedly touching a scar.” Even F. Scott Fitzgerald knew something of POSD in the 1920s when, in writing The Great Gatsby, he described a former elite athlete as “one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at 21 that everything afterward savors of anticlimax.”
http://
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The further one looks back, the more the POSD case studies pile up. It’s not a diagnosis found in any academic study, but related research is out there, and has been for a long time. A 1982 study of Czech Olympians found that more than 8 in 10 suffered serious substance abuse and emotional problems on the road back to regular life. By comparison American Olympians are positively stoic: only 40 percent suffer serious problems after retiring, according to a 1997 study that looked at 57 athletes across a dozen sports. A string of studies have found that former athletes in general are at greater risk of succumbing to a life of drink, drugs, blue moods, and self-harm than the population at large.
http://
It’s easy to appreciate what’s happening here. Olympic athletes start young, giving everything to their sport, and getting everything they need in return. When that sport is gone, so is the athletes’ world. Sports psychologists describe a “mourning period.” The athletes themselves speak in terms of a void, an absence. “The air has come out of the tires,” the Canadian rower Iain Brambell said in 2008. “Without fear of being politically incorrect,” his countrymen Curt Harnett, a three-time medal-winning cyclist, added, “I would liken it to postpartum depression.”
http://
The latest research suggests that POSD, or whatever one wants to call it, is not just an emotional change. It’s a biological one. Exercise can create a chemical high much like a drug, according to recent work by scientists at Tufts University, and when it’s removed depression and anxiety may crowd the mind.
http://
Whatever the explanation, many countries are beginning to recognize the perils of peak athletic performance—and launching programs to help their athletes rejoin the world of couch potatoes. The British, Australian, and American Olympic committees are providing post-Games counseling to all athletes, in addition to career training—help with résumés, interview skills, applications. Nonprofit organizations and sports therapy centers, some launched by ex-Olympians themselves, provide similar services.
http://
Which is all for the good, of course. But if given the option, I think I’d rather my son skip any chance at Olympic glory. He can end up more like Eric Idle, who, shot from a canon at Sunday’s closing ceremony, landed with his simple solution to the post-Olympic blues: “Always look on the bright side of life.”
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[h1]London Athletes Face Post-Olympic Blues[/h1]
[h2]Depression. Alcoholism. Despair. A surprising number of former Olympians find grim fates waiting after the Games go dark. Tony Dokoupil on how new research explains athletes’ post-Games psychological meltdowns.[/h2]
by Tony Dokoupil | August 14, 2012 4:45 AM EDT
http://
“He’s pretty athletic,” I said, watching my 3-year-old son crisscross a playground recently. My wife agreed. “But who cares if he’s sporty?” she wondered. “What’s it good for?”
http://
French Olympians high-jumper Melanie Skotnik, left, and Marlene Harnois who won a bronze medal in the Taekwondo women's -57kg category, push luggage as they leave the athlete's village to board a train after the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Monday, Aug. 13, 2012. (Matt Dunham / AP Photo)
http://
That’s precisely the concern likely to bridle the minds of returning Olympians, now that the torch of the 2012 Games has expired, ending the world’s greatest ego-dream: 16-days of rapturous crowd-waving, flag-draping fluid loss.
http://
After the buzz of Sunday’s send-off party, and the liquid lobotomy that is night life in London, Monday was a time for dry-swallowing hangover cures and packing up the Olympic village.
http://
http://
That makes today, Tuesday, the true start of the post-Olympic period: the athletes’ first morning in Smallville, with the time to think about their next acts. A select few (Usain Bolt, Lebron James) can expect lucrative endorsement deals and no end to the cheering crowds. But if researchers and past performers are right, most of London’s stars, whether they are retiring or just rebooting for Rio, are in for a grueling experience—a battle with the black dog likely to test them even more than their sporting rivals.
http://
“Ordinary life is a lot different than viewing the world from the lofty vantage point of Mount Olympus,” two-time U.S. Olympian Taraje Murray-Williams wrote on his personal blog, after coming home from the judo competition in Beijing. “Nothing feels like it can ‘go back to normal.’” The Bronx native’s life in New York City was “sickeningly mundane” next to the “superhero status” of the games, “the sense of fate, destiny—[of] being part of something so big, [so] universal. You are on stage and the whole world is watching you!”
http://
When the world moves on, Olympians come down with a condition that Murray-Williams and his former coach Rhadi Ferguson dubbed: Post-Olympic Stress Disorder, or POSD. The affliction is a given, Murray-Williams argues. “Interview Michael Phelps in a few and even he’ll have his own story to share.”
http://
That’s a grand prediction but not an unsupported one. The afterlife of Olympic medal-winners bears out the maxim that the higher you fly, the harder you fall. After his 1976 decathlon triumph in Montreal, Bruce Jenner told a reporter that he felt “devastated by the finality of it all,” unmoored, with “no plans, nothing,” And he got off easy.
http://
Tony Dokoupil talks with the New York Observer's Foster Kamer and the New York Times' Tanzina Vega about boring Olympians.
http://
The diver Greg Louganis went from the “super-high high” of his first Olympics to an inexplicable “low low” that culminated in a suicide attempt. The Australian Shane Gould, who was also a teenager, won five swimming medals in Munich in 1972 and then suffered through two decades of depression back home. But the U.S. diver Mark Lenzi came down with perhaps the worst case of POSD. After he won gold in Barcelona in 1992, he expected to inherit Louganis’ fame only to belly-flop into a self-described diet of “burgers, burritos, and beers.” Finally, somewhere near bottom, he told a reporter he planned to sell his medal.
http://
Leane Shapton didn’t even make the Olympics—she finished 8th in the breast stroke at the 1988 Canadian trials—and yet, as she recounts in a new memoir, she remains haunted by the sport. “I still dream of practice, of races, coaches and blurry competitors,” she writes. “I step into the water as though absent-mindedly touching a scar.” Even F. Scott Fitzgerald knew something of POSD in the 1920s when, in writing The Great Gatsby, he described a former elite athlete as “one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at 21 that everything afterward savors of anticlimax.”
http://
“Ordinary life is a lot different than viewing the world from the lofty vantage point of Mount Olympus,” one athlete wrote.
http://
The further one looks back, the more the POSD case studies pile up. It’s not a diagnosis found in any academic study, but related research is out there, and has been for a long time. A 1982 study of Czech Olympians found that more than 8 in 10 suffered serious substance abuse and emotional problems on the road back to regular life. By comparison American Olympians are positively stoic: only 40 percent suffer serious problems after retiring, according to a 1997 study that looked at 57 athletes across a dozen sports. A string of studies have found that former athletes in general are at greater risk of succumbing to a life of drink, drugs, blue moods, and self-harm than the population at large.
http://
It’s easy to appreciate what’s happening here. Olympic athletes start young, giving everything to their sport, and getting everything they need in return. When that sport is gone, so is the athletes’ world. Sports psychologists describe a “mourning period.” The athletes themselves speak in terms of a void, an absence. “The air has come out of the tires,” the Canadian rower Iain Brambell said in 2008. “Without fear of being politically incorrect,” his countrymen Curt Harnett, a three-time medal-winning cyclist, added, “I would liken it to postpartum depression.”
http://
The latest research suggests that POSD, or whatever one wants to call it, is not just an emotional change. It’s a biological one. Exercise can create a chemical high much like a drug, according to recent work by scientists at Tufts University, and when it’s removed depression and anxiety may crowd the mind.
http://
Whatever the explanation, many countries are beginning to recognize the perils of peak athletic performance—and launching programs to help their athletes rejoin the world of couch potatoes. The British, Australian, and American Olympic committees are providing post-Games counseling to all athletes, in addition to career training—help with résumés, interview skills, applications. Nonprofit organizations and sports therapy centers, some launched by ex-Olympians themselves, provide similar services.
http://
Which is all for the good, of course. But if given the option, I think I’d rather my son skip any chance at Olympic glory. He can end up more like Eric Idle, who, shot from a canon at Sunday’s closing ceremony, landed with his simple solution to the post-Olympic blues: “Always look on the bright side of life.”
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Weak minded individuals IMO.
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Calling Olympians (some champions) weak-minded. Ok.
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Yep, I am. If they are getting addicted to meds/drugs/alcohol/etc that's what they are. Being a champion in a sport does not equal being grounded and mentally sound. Or are you saying it does?? It's not that hard to understand.
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They're people. This article's about the high highs and low lows of sport from the perspective of the biggest sporting competition on the planet.
And you're conflating it down to...meh, weak-minded, grow a pair.
Great insight.
And you're conflating it down to...meh, weak-minded, grow a pair.
Great insight.
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I would be feeling down too if an event that happens every 4 years end. It's probably the highlight of their sports careers and the biggest party in the world. They'll probably feel worse when they leave Rio.
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I don't know how anybody can read a pretty well-written insightful article like that and simply sum it up as weak-minded individuals.
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im not gunna try to get onto the team for 2016 instead im just gunna go to brazil and try to get a job as a security job for the village or even a janitor
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You're not gonna be getting no yambs while you're pushing a mop.
even the female weightlifters? or most of the women's bball members?
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If women's bball players had the choice between a janitor in the village or a scrawny table tennis player, they'd probably choose the latter. But if you get access into the village via the cleaning crew, you could easily buy some team USA gear and fool some people.
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Man I should have been in this thread earlier. I got co-workers loling over here.
My brothers condo was inside olympic village for the winter olympics in Vancouver. I have to say snow bunnies were everywhere. Being from Texas it was too cold.
My brothers condo was inside olympic village for the winter olympics in Vancouver. I have to say snow bunnies were everywhere. Being from Texas it was too cold.
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[h1]Prince Harry snapped naked in Vegas strip-pool romp[/h1][h2]Royal family has no comment on party pics. The photos were taken after the prince of parties 'lost' in a game of strip billiards.[/h2]Comments (4
[h3]BY ANTHONY BARTKEWICZ / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS[/h3][h5]PUBLISHED: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2012, 7:05 AM[/h5][h5]UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2012, 9:44 AM[/h5]
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[h4]TMZ.COM[/h4][h4] [/h4]
Prince Harry put the crown jewels on display Friday in a VIP suite at Vegas' MGM Grand.
[h5]RELATED STORIES[/h5]
Prince Harry is letting his hair down – and everything else – as he parties in Las Vegas.
The gossip website TMZ published photos showing the playboy prince cavorting naked around a pool table with some equally uninhibited women in a game of strip billiards.
Sources told TMZ that Harry and friends invited a bevy of beauties up to his VIP suite at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino last Friday.
A round of strip pool erupted, and apparently everyone lost.
PHOTOS: CELEBRITIES WHO LOOK LIKE THEY'VE HAD ONE TOO MANY
One photo shows Harry in the buff being embraced from behind by a topless woman, while another has him pulling the same move on a nude lass next to the pool table.
Reached for comment, Clarence House, Harry's official residence and household, told the Daily News that Harry was “on a private holiday and due back in the UK soon.”
[h4]TMZ.COM[/h4][h4]Prince Harry does his bit for international relations, clowning around after losing a round of strip pool.[/h4]
The prince, who is set to resume his military duties upon his return to the United Kingdom, could face censure or be reprimanded by the Army for "social misbehavior," military experts told London's Telegraph.
Security for the Royal Family costs almost $189 million a year, former Metropolitan Police head of protection Dai Davies told the Daily Telegraph.
British taxpayers are “paying huge amounts of money for this young man to be followed everywhere he goes by security," Davies said of the hard-partying prince. “But on the other hand, [royals] have to have a life."
[h4]COLEMAN-RAYNER/COLEMAN-RAYNER[/h4][h4]Prince Harry (c.) parties with Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte (l.) in a pool in Las Vegas.[/h4]
Davies described Harry, 27, as “a young man with lots of testosterone,” but said there is a delicate balance for royals on holiday.
“Occasionally that balance slips," he admitted. "There's a responsibility on the person being secured as well as those trying to protect him."
The same weekend Harry was caught nude by the pool table, he took on U.S. Olympic swimming champ Ryan
[h4]Lochte[/h4] in a boozy impromptu race in a pool full of bikini-clad women.
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[h4]Lochte[/h4]
As in his game of strip billiards, Harry lost the race.
Prince Harry and Ryan
[h4]Lochte[/h4] swimming at a pool party in Las Vegas
The third in line to the throne of England had some mellower moments on his Vegas trip. As he and his entourage lounged by the MGM Grand’s pool, one witness told People that the prince was approached by bathing beauties throughout the day, but he preferred to toss a beach ball around with his pals.
"He talked to them briefly, but he didn't really center his attention on anyone," the source said. "He definitely loved the attention, but he looked to be a gentleman with all the women."
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[h4]Prince Harry on tape in Las Vegas, hanging poolside at the MGM Grand's Wet Republic.[/h4]
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertai...rip-pool-romp-article-1.1141763#ixzz24IMDoKXB
[h3]BY ANTHONY BARTKEWICZ / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS[/h3][h5]PUBLISHED: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2012, 7:05 AM[/h5][h5]UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2012, 9:44 AM[/h5]
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Prince Harry put the crown jewels on display Friday in a VIP suite at Vegas' MGM Grand.
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Prince Harry is letting his hair down – and everything else – as he parties in Las Vegas.
The gossip website TMZ published photos showing the playboy prince cavorting naked around a pool table with some equally uninhibited women in a game of strip billiards.
Sources told TMZ that Harry and friends invited a bevy of beauties up to his VIP suite at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino last Friday.
A round of strip pool erupted, and apparently everyone lost.
PHOTOS: CELEBRITIES WHO LOOK LIKE THEY'VE HAD ONE TOO MANY
One photo shows Harry in the buff being embraced from behind by a topless woman, while another has him pulling the same move on a nude lass next to the pool table.
Reached for comment, Clarence House, Harry's official residence and household, told the Daily News that Harry was “on a private holiday and due back in the UK soon.”
The prince, who is set to resume his military duties upon his return to the United Kingdom, could face censure or be reprimanded by the Army for "social misbehavior," military experts told London's Telegraph.
Security for the Royal Family costs almost $189 million a year, former Metropolitan Police head of protection Dai Davies told the Daily Telegraph.
British taxpayers are “paying huge amounts of money for this young man to be followed everywhere he goes by security," Davies said of the hard-partying prince. “But on the other hand, [royals] have to have a life."
Davies described Harry, 27, as “a young man with lots of testosterone,” but said there is a delicate balance for royals on holiday.
“Occasionally that balance slips," he admitted. "There's a responsibility on the person being secured as well as those trying to protect him."
The same weekend Harry was caught nude by the pool table, he took on U.S. Olympic swimming champ Ryan
[h4]Lochte[/h4] in a boozy impromptu race in a pool full of bikini-clad women.
RELATED:
[h4]Lochte[/h4]
As in his game of strip billiards, Harry lost the race.
Prince Harry and Ryan
[h4]Lochte[/h4] swimming at a pool party in Las Vegas
The third in line to the throne of England had some mellower moments on his Vegas trip. As he and his entourage lounged by the MGM Grand’s pool, one witness told People that the prince was approached by bathing beauties throughout the day, but he preferred to toss a beach ball around with his pals.
"He talked to them briefly, but he didn't really center his attention on anyone," the source said. "He definitely loved the attention, but he looked to be a gentleman with all the women."
CLICK HERE TO SEE VIDEO
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertai...rip-pool-romp-article-1.1141763#ixzz24IMDoKXB
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LOL @ Prince Harry. I gotta say, I kind of like his style. If you're already known as the "other" prince anyway, why not party your ***** off?
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Yeah because you know what it's like to participate in the Olympics and then trying to live after that...
