The move by the 2024 Paris Olympics marks a change after the pandemic prompted an intimacy ban for athletes at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
A picture taken in 2017 shows the Eiffel Tower in Paris lit in the colors of the Olympic flag. Four new sports, including skateboarding and surfing, will be featured at this summer’s Paris Olympic Games. But one age-old form of physical activity is also set to make a comeback: sex, or as the French call it, “sport in the room.
With that quantity, every resident “will have what they are expecting and what they need,” said Laurent Michaud, director of the Olympic and Paralympic Village, in an Michaud said organizers’ goal is for the more than 14,000 athletes, staff and members of the press in the Village during the Games to “feel very enthusiastic and comfortable,” he said. The Olympic and Paralympic Games will take place between July 26 and Sept. 8.There will be no alcohol — as is common for Olympic Villages — but “it’s going to be a great place so they can actually share their moment,” he said.
It’s impossible to know exactly how much sex goes on among athletes at the Olympics, but anecdotes from athletes suggest there’s no shortage. “There’s a lot of sex going on,” American soccer goalkeeper and two-time Olympic gold medalist Hope Solo, and American swimmer and 12-time Olympic medalist Ryan Lochte said that about “70 percent to 75 percent of Olympians” were having sex.
While condoms might be offered to athletes, one traditional item of French culture — and potential source of distraction — won’t be. “No champagne in the Village of course,” Michaud told Sky. “But they can have all the champagne they want … in Paris.”The schedule and the injury report do Wizards no favors vs. Celtics
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