Former athlete explains what causes Olympians to look for so much sex during games

The Olympic Games are starting once more in just a couple of days and one of the main things people are talking about is all the sex that's going to go on there.

It's not just because Paris, the 'city of love', is hosting the games this time around as there's been plenty of attention on what the athletes will get up to off the track.

There's been much natter about the supposed 'anti-sex' beds made of cardboard, but rest assured their design has nothing to do with stopping athletes from doing the horizontal bop and can actually withstand quite a lot of bouncing.

They're actually made to be recycled easily after the games, and there are 'no restrictions' on sex at the Olympics so the f**k fest occasionally punctuated by some athletic competitions can proceed as normal.

When the athletes arrive at the Olympic Village they'll be pleased to discover thousands of condoms awaiting them in anticipation of the fornication that shall commence.

So why are the world's finest athletes about to ride each other like rollercoasters for the next couple of weeks?

Lots of athletic people at their physical peak all together in the same place, how did you think this was going to go? (David Goldman - Pool/Getty Images)

One of the main reasons is that there's a lot of pent-up energy among the Olympians as they are maintaining their training diet while not actually doing all that much training during the games.

This idea is backed up by former Olympian Susen Tiedtke, who said: "The athletes are at their physical peak at the Olympics. When the competition is over, they want to release their energy.”

In the run-up to the 2012 Olympics, ESPN asked this particular question and got a plethora of answers.

"Think about how hard it is to meet someone," water polo captain Tony Azevedo answered at the time. "Now take an Olympian who trains from 6.00am. until 5.00pm every day. When the hell are you supposed to meet someone? Now the pressure is done, you're meeting like-minded people ... and boom."

All that energy has to go somewhere and American swimmer Eric Shanteau, who would go on to win gold at the 4 x 100 metre medley relay in London, said the Olympic Village becomes a 'pretty wild scene'.

Swimmer Ryan Lochte said that '70 percent to 75 percent of Olympians' were getting in on the raunchy action.

The Olympic Village for Paris 2024, I do hope they've got good soundproofing. (Maja Hitij/Getty Images)

The atmosphere at the Olympic Village has been compared to being in high school or those raucous first days of university, 'except everyone's beautiful' said two time gold medallist Julie Foudy.

When Micah Richards got to the village for the 2012 games he said being there was 'what I imagine when you go to uni when you're in halls'.

US goalkeeper Hope Solo said that getting to know each other wasn't quite as awkward as meeting at a bar, as you could just ask what sport they played and the conversation would flow like water.

"When they're training, it's laser focus. When they go out for a drink, it's 20 drinks," Solo said of athletes, describing them as 'extremists' who put everything into what they do including living the life at the Olympic Village.

"With a once-in-a-lifetime experience, you want to build memories, whether it's sexual, partying or on the field.

"I've seen people having sex right out in the open. On the grass, between buildings, people are getting down and dirty."

This is where Team GB will be staying for the Olympic Games, and possibly doing some other stuff while they're there. (Mustafa Yalcin/Anadolu via Getty Images)

It turns out that putting a bunch of incredibly fit people with incredible bodies together in the same place during a time in their life they're trying to make the most of it turns the place into a bit of a sh*g-a-thon.

It sounds like something the athletes themselves are aware of as well, as they know what they're going into and what to expect from each other.

Javelin thrower Breaux Greer said that at the village 'the girls are in skimpy panties and bras, the dudes in underwear, so you see what everybody is working with from the jump'.

John Godina, a shot-putter suggested that part of the reason for the raunchy mood was 'because they feel they never have to see each other again'.

So there you have it folks, according to former athletes there's a heady mix of energy, a feeling like you're back in those first days of university but everyone is hot and the idea that this is going to be the pinnacle of your life so you may as well enjoy it.