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Should World Cup Players Abstain From Sex in Brazil?

At the 2000 Sydney Games, Olympians raced through the 70,000 free condoms provided to them, prompting a second emergency shipment. Ahead of the 2012 London Games, 150,000 prophylactics were ordered for Olympians’ bedroom gymnastics. All of that seems surprising given the widely held belief that sex is bad for sports. The coach of the Bosnia-Herzegovina national soccer […]

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Should World Cup Players Abstain From Sex in Brazil?

At the 2000 Sydney Games, Olympians raced through the 70,000 free condoms provided to them, prompting a second emergency shipment. Ahead of the 2012 London Games, 150,000 prophylactics were ordered for Olympians’ bedroom gymnastics. All of that seems surprising given the widely held belief that sex is bad for sports. The coach of the Bosnia-Herzegovina national soccer […]

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