The Games offer athletes an opportunity to show off their bodies both on and off the field:
Olympians are young, supremely healthy people who've been training with the intensity of combat troops for years. Suddenly they're released into a cocoon where prying reporters and overprotective parents aren't allowed. Pre-competition testosterone is running high. Many Olympians are in tapering mode, full of excess energy because they're maintaining a training diet of up to 9,000 calories per day while not actually training as hard. … On the way to practice fields, "the girls are in skimpy panties and bras, the dudes in underwear, so you see what everybody is working with from the jump," says Breaux Greer, an American javelin thrower. "Even if their face is a 7, their body is a 20."
(Photo: Members of the French women's gymnastic team for the London Olympics 2012 take part in a training session at the training headquarters of INSEP (National Institute for Sport and Physical Education) in Paris on July 16, 2012. By Charles Platiau/AFP/Getty Images)
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