100,000 Olympic Condoms Used Up Already, More on the Way- What Are They Doing Up There?!

If hearing about the 100,000 condoms that were shipped into Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympics athletes last week shocked you, wait till you get a load of this. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that those condoms-roughly 14 per athlete-were almost out at the end of last week and a Canadian AIDS research foundation has had to scramble against the clock to airlift in 10,000 more. It's an emergency of huge and sweaty proportions.

Well-all right. The sheer size of the numbers-14 per athlete??-probably made all of us blink a little bit, whether in outrage or envy. But the idea that the Winter Olympics are basically a two-week long orgy is not a new one. And if you think about it, it's kind of silly that anyone ever thought otherwise.

In 2008, silver medal winning Olympic table tennis player Matthew Syed wrote for the Times of London that the Olympics had always been one big "sex fest," adding that he "got laid more often in those two and a half weeks [of the 1992 Olympics] than in the rest of my life up to that point." Now, he'd been a virgin up till that point so some of you might be thinking, well, that's not saying much. But the point is made nonetheless.

These Winter Olympics athletes are some of the greatest physical specimens from the five continents, at the prime of their life and under intense stress. For two weeks they are thrown together into the Olympic village to live and bunk together in gorgeous Winter Olympics hotels. What else would you expect them to do?

Plus, you have to consider the side-effects of their Olympics training programs. Remember Michael Phelps from the Beijing Olympics? He made news for eating over 12,000 calories every day as part of his regimen. Many top Winter Olympics stars eat almost as much. Then a few days before competing, they scale it back. The human body reacts slowly to such a big reduction in calories and so for several days they have enough energy flowing through them to fuel many sex-crazed nights.

These Olympians give everything they've got to their sports. The 2010 Winter Olympics have already seen fatal accidents, horrific wipeouts and competition so fierce you can see sparks flying off the ice. So let's face it. When the medals have been won and the interviews are over, they all deserve a little of what David Letterman calls "Oh, oohhhhh, oohhhhhhhhhhhh Canada."