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Athletes' Village Is a 'Sex-Fest'

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 22, 2008 3:02 PM CDT

(Newser) – The Olympic village overflows with world-class athletes, and they're doing about what you'd expect thousands of buff, healthy young people voluntarily crammed into a confined space to do: have sex, and plenty of it. "I am not implying, for one moment, that every athlete in Beijing is at it," ex-Olympian Matthew Syed writes in the London Times. "Just that 99% percent of them are."

The village is, in fact, "the sex-fest it is cracked up to be," Syed says. In his first Olympics, in 1992, he “got laid more than in the rest of my life up to that point,” and Beijing is no different, according to the athletes he’s interviewed. Near-comical levels of lust grip both sexes, and though the guys aren't picky, women generally prefer winners—“even those as geeky as Michael Phelps.”

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Brazil's Maurren Higa Maggi celebrates with her national flag after winning the gold medal in the women's long jump final, Aug. 22, 2008. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

US Swimmer Amanda Beard strikes a sexy pose for GoDaddy (AP Photo)

This is a copy of the July Issue of Playboy magazine showing the cover of showing Olympic swimmer Amanda Beard in Los Angeles Thursday, June 7, 2007. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)

Michael Phelps appears to be having trouble keeping his clothes on, a condition that afflicts more than a few residents of the Olympic Village. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

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I am not implying, for one moment, that every athlete in Beijing is at it. Just that 99% of them are. - Matthew Syed

I am often asked if the Olympic village is the sex-fest it is cracked up to be. My answer is always the same: too right it is. - Matthew Syed

Once we were eliminated from our respective competitions, we lunged at each other like suicidal fencers. - Matthew Syed

The swimmers finished earlier in the week and it was like there was an eruption. - Anonymous British runner in Beijing

Which all begs a question, or possibly many questions. First, and most importantly, how can one get access to the village? - Matthew Syed

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