The intimacy ban that had been in place for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics has been lifted for the 2024 Paris Olympics, and the Olympic village, where the athletes stay during the event, will be stocked with 300,000 condoms, Laurent Michaud, director of the village, told Sky News.
In an interview about the upcoming games, which will be held in the French capital from July 26 to Aug. 11, Michaud said they are preparing for 14,250 residents at the village and are aiming to have 300,000 condoms for the athletes.
Rules on intimacy went into effect for the 2020 Olympics that were held in Tokyo, Japan in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. To help prevent the virus from spreading, athletes were asked to limit their physical contact with each other, keeping about six and a half feet between them, except when necessary, like on the field.
Providing condoms at the Olympics has been a tradition since the 1988 Seoul Olympics, as an effort to raise awareness for HIV and AIDS, according to CBS Sports. In Tokyo, officials still handed out 150,000 condoms – even though the intimacy rules prevented any scenarios to use them.
There was an intimacy ban?
Did anyone tell the athletes?
From what I heard there’s quite a lot of intimacy that was already a well established tradition at the Olympic villages.
Young athletes in their prime under extreme tension and stress. Yep nothing to see here, absolutely no sex will happen.
Especially when you consider that atheletes tend to be unattractive, have poor body shapes, no confidence. Definitely no sex going on.
“14,250 residents…300,000 condoms”.
So, 20 per resident.
I imagine they’re expecting some athletes to bring their own, free condoms tend to suck.
I also imagine some people will go without by choice.
you used to be able to get proper branded Durex condoms for free in health centres in the UK with flavoured and ribbed varieties if you were under 18.
Then the boomers complained and they changed it so you could only get the “extra safe” ones which made it so you could barely feel anything.
So naturally me and my gf at the time stopped using them entirely.
free condoms tend to suck
They are literally made in the exact same factory with the exact same material. The only difference is marketing and some custom molds for like, ribbed, ultra thin, etc. Almost all brands in the world share the same dozen or so factories.
This is so French.
Those are all expired!!! Conspiracy to create superior athletic humans?
Yes. It was started by the Nazis at their Olympics, when they sought to breed out some supersoldiers. All the major powers agreed and it has been an unofficial rule ever since.
Edit: Ok, actually I’m lying. It was started by the Greco-Roman Olympics, when they sought to breed out some demigods. All the major powers agreed and so Asterix and Obelix were born.
Olympics in old Greece were only men, all naked no? How would that work out haha
I’m thinking about the tier list.
“Sprinter? No lol. No thanks.”
I’d have to guess there are socioeconomic groupings as well. The rowers probably have the upper hand there, along with anything involving firearms or horses.
Honestly, it was a guess, based less on US socioeconomics, and more globally. In a lot of countries, shooting involves a lot of red tape that’s easier to wade through with a boatload of money.
Oh… I misread your comment and thought you were ranking them based on sexual performance based on their sport.
Like, rowers have great thighs and arms, so they’re strong. Horse riders know how to… Ride. But you wouldn’t want sprinters because their goal is to finish the quickest.
But then I was wondering what would make a shooter so good in bed.
Anyway, the way I read your comment gave me a good chuckle. “The Olympian Sexual Performance Tier List.”
