ALICA SCHMIDT is embroiled in Olympics drama after being picked ahead of her team-mate for a key race.
The track star, dubbed ‘the world’s sexiest athlete’, realised her Olympic dream after competing in the mixed 4x400m relay last week.
Schmidt was part of the Germany team that went to the Tokyo Olympics but she did not end up competing in 2021.
But she took to the track at the Stade de France on Friday to finally compete in her first Olympics.
However, it has proved a controversial selection.
Schmidt, 25, was chosen to start by selectors ahead of fellow 400m runner Luna Bulmahn.
That led Bulmahn, 24, to kick up a storm as she believed she was quicker than Schmidt and therefore deserved to take part.
She said on social media: “Yes, I am the second fastest 400m athlete on paper. No, I was not nominated for the mixed relay.”
Schmidt’s selection meant Bulmahn was denied the opportunity to compete alongside her boyfriend Jean Paul Bredau.
However she is set to compete in her first Games in the women’s 4x400m relay, which begins on Friday.
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Nearly 15,000 residents – around 10,500 of which are athletes – will be cramming into the Olympic village between July 26 and August 11.
To ensure the athletes feel at home, a number of provisions have been made by organisers.
One of these is the stocking of some 300,000 condoms, in theory enough for around two every day during the run of the Games.
A number of Olympic athletes have opened the door on their steamy lives behind-the-scenes when in camp, including huge sex orgies and parties.
London 2012 had claimed the title of “the raunchiest Games ever”, but the 150,000 condoms ordered paled in comparison to the 450,000 ordered for the Rio Games four years later.
Condoms have been laid on by organisers at every game since Seoul 1988, when it they were used to spread awareness of HIV and AIDS.
Even with an intimacy ban at Tokyo 2020 due to Covid-19, some 150,000 johnnies were handed out.
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Germany may have regretted their picks for the mixed relay as they finished second last in their heat, five seconds behind winners Team GB.
Team GB went on to win bronze in the final with Team USA second and the Netherlands winning gold thanks to a miraculous final leg from Femke Bol.
Schmidt has been making the most of her Olympic experience and showed fans how life looks behind the scenes at the Olympic Village.
She was left stunned when she first stepped onto the track for the first time and took in the Stade de France.
