A former Olympic gold medalist said she once passed time at the games by listening to other athletes having sex

• A gold medalist from the 2000 Olympics said she once passed time by listening to other athletes having sex.
• With no much else to do in the Olympic village, ex-heptathlete Denise Lewis and her teammates got creative.
• "We were bored, bored," Lewis said on British TV game show "A League of Their Own."

The former Olympic gold medalist Denise Lewis has admitted she once passed time in the Olympic village by listening to fellow competitors have sex.

Lewis, who won gold in the women's heptathlon at Sydney 2000, made the claim while taking part as a contestant on British game show "A League Of Their Own."

"I do recall one occasion where there was someone literally 'at it,' and I got a phone call," Lewis confessed to presenter Romesh Ranganathan when talking about her experiences in Sydney.

Ranganathan probed for more answers, asking: "So you got the phone call to say, 'Somebody's having sex, who wants to have a listen?'"

Lewis replied: "Yes. Who wants to have a listen. We were bored, bored."

Ranganathan asked: "So you all piled into the room and listened?"

"Yeah, and literally..." Lewis said as she made a cupping gesture over her ear.

The former Olympic champion refused to say who it was she was listening to, saying they "will remain anonymous."

Sex stories from the Olympic village aren't anything new.

A total of 450,000 condoms - enough for 42 per person - were available to use for athletes at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, as well as 175,000 packets of lubricant, according to New York Post.

At the Tokyo Olympics earlier this summer, 160,000 condoms were handed out, but athletes were asked not to have sex in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19, and encouraged instead to take the condoms home.

Commenting on the ban in Tokyo, former Olympian Susen Tiedtke, who competed at Barcelona 1992 and Sydney 2000, told Bild: "It's is a big laughing stock for me, it doesn't work at all.

"Sex is always an issue in the village. The athletes are at their physical peak at the Olympics. When the competition is over, they want to release their energy.

"There is one party after another, then alcohol comes into play. It happens that people have sex and there are enough people who strive for that."