2012 London Olympics

Best. 1000th post. Ever.

@ch00beh: You're from Atlanta? Me too! My mom was telling me about how some of her friends rented out rooms (or their houses) to people who wanted to see the 1996 Olympics. My mom didn't go, because I was a toddler and at that time she was a full time nurse. But my stepdad's sister (step-aunt?) worked at the shooting range. Also I think my stepdad said he was at Centennial park around the time that guy had the bomb threat.

I also heard about the Olympic orgies thing, and I've heard it from so many places I'm pretty sure it's true. Didn't like 2 different Olympians talk about it? Anyway, I don't blame them. There seemed to be some sort of minimum attractiveness requirement for the US team, lol.

Are we talking about people having lots and lots of sex, or literal orgies?

I'm not from Atlanta, just went to Georgia Tech for college.

also during that time I lifeguarded at the pool which was used during those Olympics. That was pretty cool.

edited 15th Aug '12 7:00:43 PM by ch00beh

I think it's people having lots of sex...I think. All I know is, if I were in the 2012 Olympics I would want to hang out with Michael Phelps. I'm sure he has the best weed, lol...Thanks, I'll be here all week.

Cool. I'm always happy to meet Georgians online so that's why I asked.

edited 15th Aug '12 7:00:31 PM by wuggles

@Medicus: If the articles are to be believed, both.

edited 15th Aug '12 7:01:58 PM by Setanta

Yeah, but the articles are from unreliable newspapers.

15 condoms each when most of them spent more than 16 days in the village is not a huge number.

If we take away the married, in a relationship, just not up for it and those with religious limitations, I'd say the number would be closer to 20/25 each.

What makes you think those in relationships didn't bring their other halves over? I'd say they were the ones who used most of them.

Indeed, for Norway I know that there were two athletes that were married to each other. It would surprise me greatly if this was not a thing also for other delegations.

Come to that, were these plain condoms or did they have olympic branding of the kind everyone would be taking as souvenirs?

There's also the ESPN article that quoted several Olympic athletes.

@Geek Code Red: Ryan Lochte claimed that about 70-75% of the athletes were having sex at the games so the number per athlete is probably closer to 13-14.

Lochte also said that having a girlfriend at the 2008 games was a mistake and that he was looking forward to being unattached at these games and Judy Fouly said she would look around at the games and wonder why she got married. Those statements considered I think most of the sex is happening between the unattached.

edited 16th Aug '12 7:27:01 AM by Setanta

I read about Olympic park sex in the Telegraph in 2008. It was written by a former table tennis player who had been an olympian a couple of competitions earlier and he admitted that he managed to get laid three times.

A table tennis player who didn't medal managed to get three lays. Michael Phelps's balls must have exploded.

Also, apparently the McDonald's in the park gets a lot of action too because right after finishing nearly everyone wants to go nuts on the junk food.

Paralympic opening ceremony tonight.

I'd like to watch some of those events, but knowing NBC they'd make me sit through a "Where are they now?" special centered on a team that isn't even competing this year first.

I watched some of that ceremony last night. Impressive.

London Paralympic 2012 Closing Ceremony tonight. Not done by Danny Boyle, but by some other fellow whose name has slipped my mind. Quite good so far, but Coldplay are now playing and I find it hard to make up my mind about that lot.

Some of their songs are awesome, some are really crappy.

Still, the athletes, the games maker volunteer helpers and the rest of the cast are giving it laldy, and the steam punk inspired vehicles and set design is awesome.

Chris Martin better sing Viva La Vida or The Scientist though.

edit, Riri has just turned up. And she looks gorgeous.

edited 9th Sep '12 1:45:55 PM by TamH70

So, the Paralympics are over. We did very well; 3 golds, 2 silvers and three bronze medals. Which is a lot better than we did in the Olympics this year.

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Our Paralympians came a full 25 places higher than our Olympians. They got 7 more golds, 2 more silvers and 2 more Bronze.

Our Paralympians did miles better than our Olympians and this wasn't even our best performance at one.