Tencent channel falls for The Onion's Olympics sex spoof

Tencent, Asia's biggest internet company, has fallen for a spoof news report about athletes having huge amounts of sex at the Sochi Winter Olympics.

The satirical American website The Onion carried a story entitled: "Olympic village tour: see where the athletes live, train and f--- each other." The video showed supposed athletes having sex in almost every corner of the Olympic village, in gyms, canteens and stadium roofs.

Tencent's sport channel carried a report about the video on its news website saying "Western media" had released "explosive" footage showing a "crazy sex party" in the Olympic village.

The Tencent report said the prevalence of one-night stands among athletes was an open secret and that the Olympic organising committee had already distributed 100,000 condoms.

"In this two-minute long video, we have seen many crazy scenes. Having sex on a balcony is comparatively very conservative," it said.

"We can see people crazily making love in public squares, restaurants and gyms. Even though there are other people training or eating nearby, the wildness of these crazy love makers still cannot be stopped," the report said.

However, the article also quoted comments by internet users who said the video was fabricated to smear the Winter Olympics.