Not that the TV channels have got any secret cameras installed inside the bedrooms at the Village, but it is social networking site twitter that has opened a new platform for the athletes to reveal the secrets themselves, sometimes supplemented with pictures.
Athletes started arriving into London yesterday and straightaway the media did not even have to run and make its way around London's chaotic traffic in rain to get a peek into what all happened.
But some teams, including the British team, while allowing use of social media, have laid down some grounds for tweeting and appealed to think before they tweet.
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