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Finished competing in your event? Let the games begin!

Ten thousand human beings in peak physical condition. All in one dormitory complex. With 130,000 free condoms. Let the games begin!

And you have to tip your hat (tam?) to The Scotsman for finding an athlete named "Randy Jones" for this article.

Published Monday, August 23, 2004 7:00 AM by oldnewthing
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# re: Finished competing in your event? Let the games begin!

Monday, August 23, 2004 8:49 AM by Alex Papadimoulis
"In the Sydney 2000 Games, each competing athlete was given 51 condoms on arrival at the Olympic Village, but another 20,000 had to be shipped in when supplies began to run low."

!!!

# re: Finished competing in your event? Let the games begin!

Monday, August 23, 2004 10:03 AM by Sean Gephardt
I bet this part of the Olympis won't be on "Must see TV".

# re: Finished competing in your event? Let the games begin!

Monday, August 23, 2004 11:10 AM by Duncan
Tam = hat ?? (sf) Tam O Shanter

http://www.tamoshanter.free-online.co.uk/tamoshanter.htm

# re: Finished competing in your event? Let the games begin!

Tuesday, August 24, 2004 1:18 AM by foo
Now, isn't this _much_ more interesting than /3GB? :-)

# re: Finished competing in your event? Let the games begin!

Tuesday, August 24, 2004 2:25 AM by Tom M
More inspirational towards actually getting up and doing some exercise than the actual olympics.

# re: Finished competing in your event? Let the games begin!

Tuesday, August 24, 2004 11:54 AM by James
Not a single person on this forum had better object. Every one of you knows exactly what you would be doing if you had a ripped body carved from stone and were surrounded by the same.

Don't lie. Don't be a hypocrite.
James

# re: Finished competing in your event? Let the games begin!

Tuesday, August 24, 2004 3:23 PM by D "Big Stud"
>> Not a single person on this forum had better object. Every one of you knows exactly what you would be doing if you had a ripped body carved from stone and were surrounded by the same.

Hmm...

No, I don't know. What would I be doing? ;)

Would we be discussing the best practices of programming in .NET?

# re: Finished competing in your event? Let the games begin!

Wednesday, September 01, 2004 7:21 PM by jj
hi

# Blog firings and musical wastebaskets

Wednesday, September 01, 2004 10:32 PM by Joe White's Blog

# IOC will start charging for the condoms soon

Saturday, September 18, 2004 7:02 PM by Mark
They've got their marketing strategies down to a fine art (e.g. exclusive you-can't-use-any-other-credit-card arrangements), it's time to look for new revenue opportunities.
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