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Fun scissor clip has been going around of an 18-year-old figure skater vaguely describing her experience in the Olympic Village. Question: Is she or is she not referring to sex?
She may have had sex, but people don't talk about sex like this. She is describing something better than sex.
It seems a bit off, but what could she possibly be talking about that happens at night in the olympic village that isn’t related to competition?
Meeting new people from all around the world? Being surrounded with proof that you've achieved a goal towards which you've been working your whole life?
I was also going to guess something about beautiful architecture, under the presumption that cities would go all out to show off their artistic skills for these things... but, is it just me, or are most Olympic villages kind of ugly? De gustibus non est disputandum, I know, but the only thumbnail that really caught my eye turned out to be a building from 1881. Hosting the Olympics is famous for entailing economically crushing expenses, so maybe custom-built Olympic villages simply cut every corner they can to try to mitigate that ... but if you're going to take on decades of debt rather than just decline to host, would it be crazy to spring for some bricks and carved stone before the creditors cut you off? I guess constructions like the luge track spend more time on camera than the residences do, but at least nice residences can recoup extra expense as resale value; the luge track, not so much.
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