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Unrelated question: what's the easiest sport in which to become an Olympian between now and the 2024 Paris Olympics?
https://www.cracked.com/blog/the-7-easiest-olympic-events-to-win-medal-in
Maybe shooting or if you have the cash, dressage aka horse ballet.
What you want is a sport that's obscure in your country. Don't need to compete if nobody else is applying to represent your country for it at the Olympics. Or so I've learned from Cool Runnings and Eddie the Eagle.
They changed that rule a while ago. You have to at least qualify in an internationally recognized competition.
I'm thinking about the tier list.
"Sprinter? No lol. No thanks."
I'd have to guess there are socioeconomic groupings as well. The rowers probably have the upper hand there, along with anything involving firearms or horses.
Nope. From what I've read even olympic athletes consider anyone good enough for the olympics as 'top tier'. And it only lasts a few weeks
Wait, why firearms?
Honestly, it was a guess, based less on US socioeconomics, and more globally. In a lot of countries, shooting involves a lot of red tape that's easier to wade through with a boatload of money.
Oh... I misread your comment and thought you were ranking them based on sexual performance based on their sport.
Like, rowers have great thighs and arms, so they're strong. Horse riders know how to... Ride. But you wouldn't want sprinters because their goal is to finish the quickest.
But then I was wondering what would make a shooter so good in bed.
Anyway, the way I read your comment gave me a good chuckle. "The Olympian Sexual Performance Tier List."
Those are all expired!!!! Conspiracy to create superior athletic humans?
This is so French.
“14,250 residents…300,000 condoms”.
So, 20 per resident.
From what I've read previously, I'm not sure that's enough.
They run out every Olympics
They're Olympics branded condoms, people scoop them up as souvenirs.
“Only for Olympians!” sounds like a challenge of my stamina. Challenge accepted, condoms from 2012
I imagine they're expecting some athletes to bring their own, free condoms tend to suck.
I also imagine some people will go without by choice.
There was an intimacy ban?
Did anyone tell the athletes?
From what I heard there's quite a lot of intimacy that was already a well established tradition at the Olympic villages.
Young athletes in their prime under extreme tension and stress. Yep nothing to see here, absolutely no sex will happen.
Not to mention most of them are used to consuming way more calories then the average human and doing intense workouts that they then stop doing during s competition. That energy needs to release somehow.
Especially when you consider that atheletes tend to be unattractive, have poor body shapes, no confidence. Definitely no sex going on.