'The Olympic village is a sex-fest - I got more action in two weeks than rest of my life'

The Olympic Village has long been the breeding ground for sex-filled adventures for hundreds of Olympians competing at the highest level. Over the past three decades, the Olympic Village has gained quite the reputation as a hotbed of steamy sexual experiences with athletes from countries spanning several continents across the world.

Even with the advent of 'anti-sex' beds with cardboard frames making up the athletes' beds in Paris this month, the effort of organisers to limit the level of debauchery during this year's Olympics could have a lack of impact should competitors maintain their drive to get down and dirty with their fellow Olympians.

The lustful nature that the Olympic Village seems to breed has also led organisers to distribute 300,000 condoms throughout the three-week-long competition.

It was at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics that the reputation of the sexual encounters in the village began to swirl around thanks to the large number of contraceptives being brought into the city. Matthew Syed, a former table tennis star, made his Olympic debut in the Spanish city and once revealed the sheer amount of action he got.

"I am often asked if the Olympic Village - the vast restaurant and housing conglomeration that hosts the world’s top athletes for the duration of the Games - is the sex-fest it is cracked up to be," he wrote in The Times. "My answer is always the same: too right it is. I played my first Games in Barcelona in 1992 and got laid more often in those two and a half weeks than in the rest of my life up to that point.

"That is to say twice, which may not sound a lot, but for a 21-year-old undergraduate with crooked teeth, it was a minor miracle. Barcelona was, for many of us Olympic virgins, as much about sex as it was about sport."

Former USWNT goalkeeper Hope Solo admitted that "athletes are extremists" as the two-time Olympic gold medalist revealed how wild the sexual escapades got as well as witnessing them first-hand. "When they're training, it's laser focus," she told ESPN. "When they go out for a drink, it's 20 drinks.

"With a once-in-a-lifetime experience, you want to build memories, whether it's sexual, partying or on the field. I've seen people having sex right out in the open. On the grass, between buildings, people are getting down and dirty." The raunchiness of the village had one Team GB star revel in the fun who revealed to MailOnline that he had a foursome with two girls and a team-mate in their apartment's communal dorm.

Explaining how regular the sexual encounters were, he said: "You could have slept with a different woman every other night of the Games if you wanted to. More if you had your own room, like some of the athletes did. "Team USA was in general the flirtiest and most up for it. Then the Eastern Europeans - they're so laidback."

Organisers will hope the cardboard frame beds will deter competitors from getting up to their usual hanky panky while it's been said the beds could perhaps collapse should athletes attempt to romp in them.

A spokesperson for manufacturer Airweave, the company who made the beds, said: "We’ve conducted experiments, like dropping weights on top of the beds. As long as they stick to just two people in the bed, they should be strong enough to support the load."