Australian Penthouse

With the London 2012 Olympic Games thankfully now well and truly over, James Buckley lifts the lid on the amount of shagging that takes place at the world’s premier sporting event in his e-book Sex & the Olympics: Condomania…

by Nathan Lawrence

That’s the sequel…
Honestly, the IOC probably wouldn’t be too impressed with this material because the Olympics is all about perfection and purity, and achieving your best and sportsmanship. This is the other side to that sportsmanship.

How many condoms are usually supplied to Olympic athletes?
You get Olympic Games with 100,000-plus condoms distributed for two weeks, and they run out! In Vancouver, they ran out a couple of days early, and the same thing happened in Sydney. When you do the math—100,000 condoms divided by 10,000 athletes—it works out to 10 per person.

Why so many?
You get 10,000 athletes around the ages of 18 to 30, they’re all hormone-charged and competitive, and have been building up for 12 to 24 months for the Olympics. All of a sudden, they compete, and 90 percent of them don’t even make it past the first round. Then they’re stuck in the Olympic Village with nothing to do.

The big sponsors like to throw these big parties where the athletes attend as VIPs. You’ve got a few past athletes and that sort of thing, and most people can only peer through the doors and wonder what’s going on in there. And, from what we can tell, it gets pretty wild.

There were only 1700 athletes, but there were about 40,000 condoms, so you’re looking at 26 condoms per athlete. If you couple up there, that’s 52 per pair for a two-week event.

Are these athletes perpetually horny?
It comes back to this: you’ve got all these people together of a similar demographic. They’re all essentially beautiful people, very athletic and chiselled. They just generate sexual energy, really.

What sort of condoms are being handed out at the Games?
They play around with them at different Olympic Games. At the Sydney Games, they offered a bronze, silver and gold range, to mix it up a little bit. I think [different colours] is the extent of it, though. They do the job they’re meant to do, and at the end they’re thrown around.

Literally?
At the Seoul Olympics, the British team got in trouble because used condoms were all over the roof of their building. Outdoor sex was banned on that occasion.

Who won the sexual Olympics?
We have a promiscuity index that rates each country on how likely they are to engage in casual sex. England was very high up on that list. Travellers to this year’s Games, statistically, were more likely than ever to engage in casual sex with one of the locals or, if they’re lucky, one of the athletes.

Did organisers at this year’s London Olympics run out?
They distributed 150,000 condoms this year; they tried to make sure they didn’t run out. But the Games were in a western country where sex is not as taboo as it is in some places, and there were a lot of athletes : 10,000-plus. I reckon it was tight in those last couple of days; I don’t know if the 150,000 held.