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Re: life in the Olympic Village:

"It’s not an orgy," says one alpine skiing champion, Carrie Sheinberg, "but it is socially vigorous."

And these delicious numbers:

At the Albertville winter Olympics, condom machines in the athletes’ village had to be refilled every two hours. And in Sydney the organisers’ original order of 70,000 condoms went so fast that they had to order 20,000 more. Even with the replenishment, the supply was exhausted three days before the end of the competition schedule. (For the record, athletes who were in Sydney report that the Cuban delegation was the first to use up its allocation.) Salt Lake City in 2002 went even bigger: 250,000 condoms were handed out, despite the objections of the city’s Mormon leadership.

But the overall tone of The Scotsman.com's article Let the Games Begin is neither salacious nor condemning. Rather, it paints a sympathetic picture of what it's really like when you put 10,000 hardbodies, all high on life and their own body chemistry, in a very small space for two weeks.