Outside the lines, 7.2/edited by Ziv Steiner
It's no secret that during the Olympic Games, sex life in the athletes' residences is particularly active.
The organizers of the event usually distribute hundreds of thousands of condoms throughout the Olympic village, when in London 2012 150,000 of them were distributed and one of the users was probably Micah Richards, a soccer player on the British team that summer, who talked about his exploits on a podcast in England.
"It was the mother of all parties," recalls Richards, now a BBC commentator.
"All kinds of athletes were there. It's what I imagined happening at university when you live in student accommodation and share a room with a roommate. I was with Daniel Sturridge, we came for three nights in the Olympic village and on each of them we stayed up until 4 in the morning. You have all the delegations there, every The states, and there's a huge room full of condoms! I swear to God I was on fire. I was a little bit fitter, it was summer so I walked around shirtless, it was amazing. One of the best times of my life."
Celebrate properly.
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Alan Shearer, also a commentator on the BBC who heard Richards' words on the podcast, joked in response: "No wonder you lost on penalties, you were broken!".
The British team was indeed eliminated on penalties by South Korea in the quarter-finals of that Olympic tournament, when of course they played at home.
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