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Is it hard to socialise with other Olympians not in your teams, because they might all be too focused on keeping “eyes on the prize”?

If you are unlucky enough to proceed further into the Games, are you allowed to stick around to spectate or enjoy the events? Or must you immediately pack and fly back to home?

Are you allowed to even leave the Athletes village at all??

Where do you actually get to practice runs around a track or other events? I’m assuming that they don’t have lots of 400m tracks locally to the athlete village to let everyone run at the same time. So what do you do? Take scheduled shifts?

Can you please elaborate more about these “pins”? How does that work, how do you get hold of them in the first place? And if it’s that well known, how is that not clamped down more (or do the officials turns a blind eye, or even engage in it themselves???!)