Major sporting events such as the Summer Olympics are pretty much the peak of any athlete’s career.
This is what all the training has been for. This has been the goal – to time your preparations so that you can deliver a personal best performance and hopefully win gold.
There’s a lot of focus, a lot of determination – everyone is pumped and ready for action. The testosterone is flowing.
While all of that energy hopefully translates into smashing world records and being recognised as a champion, we couldn’t help but wonder whether the athletes’ village is also a bit of a hotbed of sexual tension.
Just how much man-on-man sex are these Olympic athletes having?
Crunching the numbers on gay athlete sex
There’s around 11,000 athletes competing in the Tokyo Summer Olympics. According to official figures, the gender split is about 51% male and 49% female.
There’s not really any definitive statistics on what proportion of men are gay or bisexual, but recent studies indicate that around 7-8% of men report that they’ve had some same-sex sexual experience and identify as not being completely straight.
So, if we do a bit of maths, we could assume that somewhere around 450 guys in the athletes’ village at the Tokyo Summer Olympics would be up for a bit of man-on-man action.
Outsports estimates that there are at least 168 LGBTQ athletes taking part in this Summer Olympics. However, most of those are women – about 40 of the names on the list are representing their countries in women’s football.
Some of the notable gay men competing in Tokyo include diver Tom Daley, swimmer Markus Thormeyer, equestrian riders and boyfriends Edward Gal and Hans Peter Minderhoud, and trampoline gymnast Dominic Clarke.
How much action are they getting?
Sex between athletes happens
There’s no rule against athletes having sex with each other.
Since 1988, organisers of the Olympics have issued condoms to everyone in the athletes’ village.
At the Summer Olympics in Seoul, organisers did ban the athletes from having sex outdoors – they were finding a lot of used condoms on the roof of the athletes’ accommodation.
At the Sydney Olympics, organisers had to send out for extra condoms, because the athletes were getting through them faster than anticipated. They started with 70,000 condoms and had to bring in an extra 20,000 to meet demand.
While the number of athletes that take part in an Olympic games hasn’t increased exponentially over the years, the number of condoms that they’re getting through has. In 2012, athletes at the London Olympics got through 150,000 condoms. In 2016, athletes at the Rio Olympics got through 450,000 condoms.
Fuelling our athletic porn fantasies
There’s something about fit men in lycra that definitely gets us working up a sweat.
We’ve been following the coverage of the Olympics fairly closely, and letting our imagination fill in the blanks.
To help with your porn video fantasy, here’s some of the match-ups that we’d like to think are going down in the athletes’ village in Tokyo.
Rhys McClenaghan and Taha Akgül
Rhys is a gymnast from Ireland. He caught our attention when he took to TikTok to debunk the story that the beds in the athletes’ village weren’t sturdy enough to have sex in.
We’d like to see that test in action with a match up with Taha Akgül. Taha is a giant of a man from Turkey – he’s a wrestler.
Tom Daley and Matty Lee
They’ve already won gold together in the synchro diving. We know they’re close, but we want to see just how close.
Johnny Hooper and Max Irving
They’re teammates on the US water polo squad. We want to see what happens in the showers.
Despite the thought of man-on-man athlete sex being a turn on, I admit I have been on an anti-Olympics kick the last decade or so, the nail in the coffin being the total disregard the IOC having for the residents of Tokyo, where COVID-19 cases have started to spike again in the last few days. A such, I am not following the Olympics, and while I still do have high regard for the “on the field” accomplishments of athletes, I wish there was not as much emphasis on the Olympics but rather in each’s own sport’s associations or federations’ competitions.
“I wish there was not as much emphasis on the Olympics but rather in each’s own sport’s associations or federations’ competitions.”
What fucking world do YOU live in? There’s already PLENTY of “emphasis” on those *other* competitions. Maybe you’ve heard of “the World Series” or “the Super Bowl” or “March Madness” or “the Stanley Cup” or “the World Cup?” Those are the BIG “competitions” for baseball, football, basketball, hockey and soccer respectively (and the US only begrudgingly pays much attention to the last competition–which, incidentally, only happens every four years). And I’m pretty sure other countries have their own events for the various sports events.
On the other hand, pretty much NO ONE pays any attention to gymnastics or swimming/diving or even track and field any time OTHER than the Olympics–even though all of those sports have their own periodic competitions (though you’d rarely notice any of them unless they have SOME ties to the Olympics, such as the Olympic qualifying trials). These other sporting events used to get coverage on US network television (mostly on ABC’s “Wide World of Sports”) but, even then, they paled in the ratings compared to pretty much any football, baseball or basketball game) but even with today’s scores of cable sports channels, sports that are not football, baseball, basketball and hockey rarely get any kind of coverage when they’re not being covered in the Olympics.
I generally loathe the Olympics more because of the overemphasis on nationalism rather than the sport. I have no idea how the Olympics get covered in places like the UK or the Netherlands or Mexico or South Africa or any other country, but in the US, you cannot escape the constant overexcitement by the announcers when a US athlete or team performs (and DOYC forbid the athlete or team should win–it’s a veritable audio-orgasmic frenzy; the only thing that would make it worse is for the announcer to go “neener-neener, we won, the rest of you suck!” and I wouldn’t be surprised if the announcer is thinking that very thought). And if the US athlete or team should come in second or third (and even worse if they don’t qualify for a medal at all), then it’s just basically a quick cut to the next event (almost like the network doesn’t want to cover the medal ceremony at all). It’s almost as if the whole idea of “good sportsmanship” doesn’t lead to “good ratings.” Why do humans ever bother with warfare? All they’d need to do is just make sure every country treats its Olympics coverage the same way the US does. Then whoever wins the most gold medals is declared the “Most Excellent Supreme Superpower of the World” for the next four years. (Everyone knows the Winter Olympics doesn’t count worth crap.)
Thanks for snaring, Joey.
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I ignore the Olympics as it serves primarily commerce and the media … endless channels and commentators milking the games to gain attention to themselves
Well well sounds like fun
I thought that I had responded to this colloquy, but maybe not. Oh well. I resisted responding to this, but feel like I had to. Why can’t people just enjoy the competition and enjoy some sports that you might not ordinarily see (altho, as they say in Friends, a little more ESPN and a little less E), but you can actually see a lot of these sports in normal times. If you don’t like the commentary, don’t watch. If you don’t like the nationalism, you still have the freedom in this country to leave. So go. The country will be better off without you.
Some have caught my eye and I’ve wondered….
Here’s something to make you wonder ?. Olympic Swimmer Is Interviewed About His Phenomenal ‘Third Leg’ And People Can’t Cope
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