Match of the Day pundit says ‘I was on fire’ as sex took over Olympic Village

Micah Richards has candidly revealed that he was "on fire" during his stint at the notoriously raunchy Olympic Village. The Match of the Day pundit has reminisced about his time with Team GB during the London 2012 Olympics.

Richards, who played for Manchester City at the time, was determined to soak in every moment of the sporting extravaganza, and not just on the pitch. While Team GB went out on penalties to South Korea in the quarter-finals, the defender, who was in his early 20s, enjoyed plenty of success off the pitch.

The vibe in the Olympic Village, which is renowned for its sexual escapades and the liberal provision of condoms for amorous athletes, did not go unexploited by Richards, now 36. In a candid revelation to Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer on The Rest is Football podcast earlier this year, he recalled: "We went training, come back to the village, those three nights we were up to 4am.

"You have different campuses, Team GB in one block, Brazil, France, all these countries, and there's a massive big room full of condoms! It was like 'What!?' Obviously promoting safe sex and, honest to god, I was on fire."

He brazenly added: "I was on absolute fire, honestly. I was a little slimmer, a bit more ripped, bit more lean, it was summertime, walking around with my top off. One of the best times of my life, it was incredible."

Former Team USA goalkeeper Hope Solo has also lifted the lid on the raunchy reality inside the Olympic Village, confessing to ESPN in the run-up to the 2012 London Games: "There's a lot of sex going on.

"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."

Meanwhile, former table tennis star Matthew Syed, who competed at the Barcelona Games in 1992, revealed he had more sex during the competition than he'd ever had in his life. Now a journalist, he confirmed in The Times that it was the “sex-fest it is cracked up to be”.

He explained: “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.”

Ahead of the Paris Olympics, organisers have planned accordingly by making a jaw-dropping 200,000 male condoms, 20,000 female condoms and 10,000 dental dams available to athletes in the village.