A Commonwealth Games swimmer raped a woman after she had just had sex with a swimmer from the Team GB Olympic team, a court heard.
Top athlete Otto Putland, 23, is accused of jumping into bed after the woman had consensual sex with Ieuan Lloyd.
The woman had gone back to the home of Mr Lloyd - a two-time Olympian who competed at London 2012 and Rio 2016
But a court heard how Mr Lloyd's friend Putland then went into the same bedroom to have sex with the woman at a house in Cardiff, Wales.
She refused and told Putland she wouldn't be 'passed around' but he is accused of stripping naked before putting on a condom and raping her twice.
The woman told police that after having sex with Mr Lloyd, Putland came into the bedroom and sat on the bed.
She said: 'He lay on the bed, took his clothes off and started kissing me. I felt uncomfortable.
'I said: 'What are you doing? You can't pass me around'.'
Putland allegedly told the woman: 'You're not being passed around,' and the woman told him she did not want to have sex with him.
The court heard she then texted a friend saying: 'Help, I think something might happen. Putland then allegedly stripped naked while the woman covered herself up with her hands and started crying.
But Putland allegedly put on a condom and told the woman: 'It's okay, we don't have to have sex, we can just kiss'.
The woman told police Putland tried to kiss her twice and then began raping her.
She said that the sex went on for two to three minutes before the woman left to go to the bathroom.
Cardiff Crown Court heard she later fell asleep but woke to find Putland raping her again, but she was able to push him off and leave the house. Putland, who represented Wales in the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, was arrested in November 2016, 16 months after the alleged incident.
He denies two counts of rape and says the sex was consensual.
Putland told the jury the woman had consensual sex with him after being 'flirtatious' with him when they met in a nightclub.
He said: 'Ieuan introduced us and there was general chit-chat but I can't remember the details of what was said. She was talking to me normally.
'Ieuan left the room and I moved up to the headboard side of the bed, I was slouching on the bed next to her and I think she was doing the same.
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