Every four years when the Olympics rolls around - or two if you count the Winter Olympics - and the media goes wild over rumours about what the athletes are getting up to after hours.
Like a university dorm in freshers week, putting a group of young people filled with pent up emotions within an enclosed space will only lead to one thing - sex.
Now bouncing on cardboard beds may sound like a sure way to give yourself an injury and end your Olympic gold dreams, but it certainly doesn't stop the world's elite sportsmen and women from getting it on in their spare time.
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It seems that the athletes weren't shy about disclosing their hook-ups either, with Team USA's winter sports team making a series of x-rated admissions about the after hours activities.
During a video interview with Cosmopolitan in 2018, the athletes were quizzed on why there's so much sex in the Olympic village and whether or not they were partaking.
The biggest admission came from Alpine ski racer Laurenne Ross donned her best valley girl accent to declare: "I hooked up with everyone" while Skeleton athlete John Daly exclaimed that the amount of hook-ups was due to cramming so many young people into the building.
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"It happens! Incredibly good-looking [athletes], perfect bodies, tight Spandex. Of course there's gonna be some hooking up! Would you expect anything else!?" he said, while Paralympic alpine skier Andrew Kurka joked: "The condoms are Olympic strong."
"What happens in the Olympic village, stays in the Olympic village," added Paralympic sled hockey athlete Rico Roman.
Not all the athletes were as forthcoming with the x-rated admissions, with several revealing they were in committed relationships, however, the consensus seems to be that athletes are more than happy to let off steam after a long, hard day at the games.
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Of course the athletes could just be messing with all of us, but the reports of as many as 300,000 condoms being available to the Olympians at Paris 2024 suggests there is plenty of substance to reports of x-rated activities.
That's an average of two condoms per person, per day.
Former Olympian Susen Tiedtke even appeared to liken the games to a two-and-a-half week lads/gals holiday in an interview with German language outlet Bild back in 2021.
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"The athletes are at their physical peak at the Olympics," she explained, adding that sex had 'always been an issue' at the games.
"When the competition is over, they want to release their energy."
This sentiment was echoed by Matthew Syed, who represented Team GB at the 1992 and 2000 games, who revealed the games were 'as much about sex as it was about sport' during an interview in 2008.
Topics: Olympics, Sex and Relationships, Winter Olympics
Brenna Cooper