# Oh, to be an Olympic Athlete **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 8, 2000, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-to-be-an-olympic-athlete/21769 "2000-06-08T17:19:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-to-be-an-olympic-athlete/21769/1 "2000-06-08T17:19:11Z")
[Can you believe this?](http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000608/od/olympics_condoms_dc_1.html) For those of you who don’t want to click the above thread, the summary is as follows: Olympic Organizers for the Sydney Olympics later this year are providing **100,000** free condoms to the Athlete’s village. This figure is based upon previous years’ consumption rate. How many athletes will BE there? We’re only talking about a little over two weeks, people. Even if there are 10,000 male _(I pulled the number out of the air, sue me)_ athletes, this leads me to assume that the average male Olympic athlete gets laid **at least 4 times a week.** This figure does not include those who gaily go in bareback, or other forms of sexual contact that do not necessitate the use of a condom. Would anyone like to start working out with me? ---
**Author:** ![Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bottle_of_Smoke)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-to-be-an-olympic-athlete/21769/2 "2000-06-08T17:50:07Z")
From the article – “They would come in a range of colors, including gold, silver, and bronze.” Makes you wonder what the qualifying event was to determine your color. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-to-be-an-olympic-athlete/21769/3 "2000-06-08T18:00:54Z")
It would also make me wonder about the moral status of the judge in question. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2000, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-to-be-an-olympic-athlete/21769/4 "2000-09-27T18:42:29Z")
Well, there’s a whole 4 days to go, the Olympic village has gone through about 60k condoms, and is ordering in another lot more to satisfy the demand. Wild. Absolutely wild. ---
**Author:** ![Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bottle_of_Smoke)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2000, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-to-be-an-olympic-athlete/21769/5 "2000-09-27T19:10:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. Cynical \* > \*\*ordering in another lot more to satisfy the demand. > \*\* Sounds like there are already a lot of demands being satisfied. ---
**Author:** ![Ivar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ivar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ivar)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2000, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-to-be-an-olympic-athlete/21769/6 "2000-09-27T22:02:06Z")
Recent joke - Man goes the drug store to buy some condoms, and finds a new brand, “Olympic Condoms”, which come in three colors, gold, silver and bronze. The fellow purchases them and goes home to his wife. Excited and amused, he shows them to his wife, who is also amused. Then the man pulls out one of the gold condoms and says to his wife “Well baby it looks like I’m goin’ for the gold tonight!” to which his wife replies “How about you wear the silver one, it’s about time you came second.”