Micah Richards makes sex confession about Olympic Village and says he was 'on fire'
When you think of the Olympics you probably think of the world's finest athletes demonstrating why they're at the pinnacle of their sport.
However, in between all of that it sounds like putting the planet's most athletic people in the same place is a recipe for some of them to bang each other's brains out during their downtime.
Most of the Olympic athletes aren't competing for the entire span of the games but they can be in the village for several days before their events begin.
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Former athletes have been talking about why the games have such a reputation for sex, with German long jumper Susen Tiedtke who competed in 1992 and 2000 saying it was 'inevitable no matter what'.
She explained that lots of the athletes 'want to release their energy', while Team GB table tennis player Matthew Syed said he got 'laid more often in those two and a half weeks than in the rest of my life' when he was at the '92 Olympics.
The Paris games are reputed to have introduced 'anti-sex' cardboard beds, following on from the example of Tokyo, but they're actually made of cardboard so they can be recycled after the Olympics.
In fact, plenty of athletes turning up at the games have shown that the beds could take a pounding as they jumped up and down on them without any sign of collapse.
Far from introducing 'anti-sex' beds, the Paris games have embraced France's reputation as a nation of romance and there will be 'no restrictions regarding sexual activity'.
To prepare for this the Olympics is packing the equivalent of 23 condoms per athlete at the games, and a former Olympian confirmed the truth of the massive haul of prophylactics that awaited those competing at the games.
Back in 2012 former footballer Micah Richards was part of the Team GB squad that made it into the quarter finals for Olympic football before exiting on penalties to South Korea.
Speaking on The Rest is Football podcast, Micah lifted the lid on the Olympic Village's reputation as a place for a lot of sex going on and seemed to confirm it.
He said: "It was the party of all parties. You got all the different athletes, all sorts of different specimens in there.
"Absolutely everything was there, we had McDonalds there, a Chinese, a big cafeteria with everything you want, it's free.
"It's what I imagine when you go to uni when you're in halls and sharing a room, I was with Daniel Sturridge.
"We were there for three nights, we went training, come back to the village, them three nights we were up to 4am."
When Richards says the Olympic Village had absolutely everything he meant it, as he continued to recount his London 2012 days.
"You have different campuses, Team GB in one block, Brazil, France, all these countries, and there's a massive big room full of condoms!" he revealed, so it would seem there's plenty of truth to the idea that the organisers have to plan around the sex.
"It was like what, obviously promoting safe sex, and honest to God, I was on fire.
"I was on absolute fire, honestly. I was a little slimmer, a bit more ripped, bit more lean, it was summer time, walking around with my top off.
"There was multiple gold medals. One of the best times of my life, it was incredible."
There you have it folks, the Olympics makes sure there's a 'massive big room full of condoms' for the athletes to use.
Topics: Olympics, Sport, Sex and Relationships
Joe Harker