On Valentine’s Day on the Milan Cortina Olympics, a renewed provide of free condoms for the athlete villages was promised by the organizers after going quick in the course of the week.
“We are able to verify that condom provides within the Olympic Villages had been briefly depleted resulting from higher-than-anticipated demand,” the Italian organizing committee mentioned in a press release Saturday. “Further provides are being delivered and will likely be distributed throughout all villages between immediately and Monday.”
Offering condoms for athletes has been a present from organizers — and a relentless fascination to the world — for many years.
Whereas 300,000 condoms had been offered for greater than 10,500 athletes on the 2024 Paris Summer season Video games, the unique inventory was a lot decrease for these Winter Video games.
“I believe 10,000 have been used, 2,800 athletes — you’ll be able to go determine, as they are saying,” Worldwide Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams mentioned Saturday. “It clearly reveals that Valentine’s Day is in full swing within the village.”
Experiences of no condoms in week one of many video games adopted an absence of plush toys of the official mascots, Milo and Tina, within the opening days. They proved extra in style than anticipated within the official Olympics merchandise shops.
Condoms are historically in style for Olympic athletes to take residence as “a type of reward” to mates, Alpine skier Mialitiana Clerc mentioned Saturday.
“I am not so shocked. I noticed it in Beijing already,” mentioned Clerc, who additionally competed for Madagascar 4 years in the past on the Winter Video games in China. “There have been some containers with numerous condoms on the entrance of each constructing the place we had been staying on the village.”
“On daily basis, the whole lot was (gone),” she recalled about Beijing at an IOC information convention Saturday to advertise its scholarship program that helps a whole bunch of athletes to coach and qualify for the Olympics.
“I already know that lots of people are utilizing some condoms or simply taking them to provide to their mates outdoors of the Olympics as a result of it is a type of reward for them,” Clerc mentioned.
There needs to be no additional scarcity in Italy till the Winter Video games closing ceremony on Feb. 22.
“They are going to be repeatedly replenished till the tip of the video games to make sure continued availability,” the native organizing committee mentioned.
