Real-life partying may be subdued at the 2021 Tokyo summer games, but there are plenty of accounts and rumors to jump-start a Chyoa story. A few quotes and scraps to get juices flowing: DuckDuckGo search: [ olympic athlete parties ] Condom distribution at the Olympic Village (USA Today): The distribution of condoms at the Olympics began in 1988. ... The number given away has skyrocketed from 8,500 at the Seoul Games in 1988 to 450,000 at the Rio Games in 2016. In Rio, giant green vending machines containing the condoms were situated in the food hall and various lounges around the Village, keeping alive the reputation of the Olympic village and athletes’ activity when they’re not competing. "There’s a lot of sex going on," Hope Solo, the two-time gold medaling soccer player, told ESPN for a story published in 2012. Tinder hookups at the 2018 Winter Games in Korea (USA Today): Usage of Tinder in Pyeongchang has spiked 348 percent since the start of the Olympics, according to the company. Not surprising with so many fit and attractive athletes on hand. “Every Olympics we hear that Tinder is ‘on fire’ in the Villages and we notice our usage increase significantly when people from around the world gather for an event,” a [Tinder] spokeswoman told Reuters. Sydney 2000, the "Shooters' House" (ESPN): [Josh Lakatos stayed over past his event because he knew that there would be parties, turning his residence into an informal hookup place]. And on it went for eight days as scores of Olympians, male and female, trickled into the shooter's house -- and that's what everyone called it, Shooters' House -- at all hours, stopping by an Oakley duffel bag overflowing with condoms procured from the village's helpful medical clinic. After a while, it dawned on Josh Lakatos: "I'm running a friggin' brothel in the Olympic Village! I've never witnessed so much debauchery in my entire life." Any thoughts, contributions, brainstorming, or other stories? (running off to do a chore, will return to post more snippets)
Cool, like a riff on the ancient Greek traditions. * Nude competitions * Post-workout clean-up is an oil massage followed by a scrape-down using a "strigil" * Hanky panky - tire out your rivals by gifting them party companions the night before. * Olympic truce, cities at war allow free passage to and from the Olympics.
More snippets as idea generators, particular scenes and images. This ESPN story has too many juicy descriptions of Olympic Village flirting, wide-eyed visual appreciation, exhibitionistic showing-off, too many horny, silly, and sweet scenes to even summarize, so here's the link. https://www.espn.com/olympics/summe...s-dirty-secrets-olympic-village-espn-magazine The Hope Solo quote comes from this article. Another athlete estimates that 70%+ of Olympians are sexing it up in the village. Gentleman's Quarterly, UK edition (or rather, just GQ from 1967, and monthly since 1970). Olympic Village party stories from an Olympian in London 2012. 1. Flattery, scoring with an Olympian, competitive scoring as its own Olympic sport: During London 2012, a friend of mine explained away a sexual encounter he came to regret by saying that “she told me in Mahiki I had the best abs she’d ever seen”. A well-timed compliment can go a long way. Mahiki is a nightclub where Olympians and celebrities might cross over, trying to score with each other. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahiki "The club has attracted media attention as a favourite haunt of royals including Princes William and Harry and celebrities such as Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Kelly Rowland, and Paris Hilton." 2. Frightening the horses! Shameless sex in public. Cue the Pet Shop Boys' "West End Girls". See also "skinny-dipping with Argentinians in the Serpentine" below. A teammate of mine did the dirty with a couple of keen beans on a West End side street, his medal dangling lustily from his neck. Voyeurs be damned! The three of them were willing to let the moment take them. Urban Dictionary says: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=keen bean An eager person, usually with a nerdish edge to their enthusiasm. "Hammy was already on my doorstep when I got home from work, even tho the show's not 'til 9. Brah's a keen bean." Or you can read this as Olympic athletes set upon by eager fans. Dubious consent? Or maybe one Olympian is really keen to meet their fans and encourages their teammates to come along. "More action than any one person can handle, even me. You gotta come and save me!" 3. For fans and groupies, the Olympics is a target-rich environment. If the athlete doesn't warm to the sparkle in your eyes, move on! So hanging around too much or being too clingy just isn’t going to work. If your first attempt doesn’t work, move onto one of the 10,499 other Olympians. Honestly, we had to jump ship from entire venues to avoid these sorts. Story hooks here for: "I made a play for my favorite athlete, but what an asshole! But I never expected I'd make a wonderful connection with..." "[Famous athlete] paid no attention to me, but I overheard how to get into this party, and you'll never believe what happened to me..." 4. Find the right parties! (one of the venues was a gay club, a complete miss for the writer as a hetero man; superstar parties were also a drag because they were too controlled) The best were thrown by sponsors who lavished money on upscale venues in places like Mayfair and showered us with drinks. Once in you were surrounded by celebrities and fellow Olympians. Story hook here for: "What a drag, let's blow this joint and go on a lark. You're a local, where would you go for fun?" 5. For fans and groupies: Sneak into the Olympic Village if you can. That could be a caper story itself, how do you make it happen? Luck? Pluck? "Why yes, I'm delivering this to [...]!" Penetrate this inner sanctum of the Olympic machine and your odds will skyrocket. 6. Exotic and unfamiliar is an extra attraction, and you have the most lusty, fit, young, and competitive folks in the world in one place for a very limited time. Cross-ocean match-ups and curiosity hook-ups were a pattern. A few might turn in to long-distance relationships, if you're inclined to keep the story going. My London teammates spent one night skinny-dipping in the Serpentine with a gaggle of eager Argentinians. Because when else are you going to do that in Hyde Park? So pick your target. Find someone for whom you will be curious and exotic. Ever wondered how it’s done in North Korea? This will probably be your only chance. Get creative and bag a once-in-a-lifetime shag. From the New York Post (also 2012) https://nypost.com/2012/07/08/olympic-athletes-leak-villages-sex-drinking-and-drug-secrets/ “When I’m there, I’m in two different gears,” says one female US Olympian, who spoke to The Post on the condition of anonymity. “I’m so focused that I see nothing else, or I’m partying my butt off.” A stripper named Theresa White came forward to say that Michael Phelps likes threesomes and short girls, and that he “should get another gold medal for lovemaking”. NY Post on the Olympic Village as a location: Olympic Villages are vast, pre-fab communities, divided into smaller subdivisions by nation. The United States’ area has a 24-hour McDonald’s, as well as sponsored beer halls: a Budweiser House and a Heineken House. Everything is free — including the unlimited supply of condoms, stamped with sports-specific logos. (Curlers, for example, get wrappers stamped with little curling stones.) Curling - you don't need a ton of physique, but: While curlers are held in the lowest esteem athletically, they are considered gold medalists when it comes to partying. After the female Olympian finished competing at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, she checked out of the Village and went to stay with the curlers, who were off-site at a hotel in Whistler. “That was a party house,” she says. "It Stays in Vegas", Olympic Village edition. “I was feeling super-guilty for cheating on my boyfriend,” says the female Olympian. “And a fellow athlete said, ‘Why? Everyone hooked up last night.’ ” The most surprising part of US Olympic tradition? Getting so wasted the night before you take your traditional post-Games trip to the White House that the next morning, as you’re shaking hands with the president, you’re still drunk. There's some mention of a book, The Secret Olympian, collecting multiple stories from competitors over a number of years. Goodreads readers seem to think that the anonymity was a minus -- losing the particulars which would help readers relate, while not taking advantage of anonymity to be a juicy tell-all. One morsel from Bloomsbury Publishing's description that could spark a scene: the politicians' visits with their flirty spouses So, perhaps: Athletes x Celebrities x Politicians x The Rich and Famous
And now there's a tweet circulating about cardboard bed frames intended to discourage sex at the Olympic Village. Dragged mercilessly, but perhaps "anti-sex" was apocryphal.
