Saturday, August 16, 2008

Olympic Village of the Damned Sexy

"An informal poll of summer Olympians puts swimmers and gymnasts at the top of the best-proportioned-body list. Cathy Rigby, a gymnast who took part in the Games of Mexico City and Munich, once told a reporter that gymnasts’ bodies are so aesthetically pleasing they should be forced to perform naked."

Go, Cathy!

At scotsman.com, I found a 2004 article about what goes on inside an Olympic village.

"It’s not an orgy," says one alpine skiing champion, Carrie Sheinberg, "but it is socially vigorous."
I'm not going to repeat it all, but here's one more excerpt:

"It’s really a question of ‘which flavour do you like?’," says Nelson Diebel, an American swimmer who won gold twice in Barcelona. "If you like six-packs, see the gymnasts. Like butts? Go to track and field. The only thing you’re deprived of is fat. If you’re the rare athlete who likes sedentary bodies, you’re shit out of luck."

In some other article - I've lost the citation now - it said that in one Olympic village (Athens, I think) workers had to refill the condom dispensers every two hours. 'makes me wonder how they found any energy for competing.

But mostly I'm just jealous.

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