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With that amount, each resident “will have what they expect and what they need,” said Laurent Michaud, director of the Olympic and Paralympic Village, in a interview with News from Heaven.
Michaud said organizers’ goal is for the more than 14,000 athletes, staff and members of the media at the Village during the Games to “feel very excited and comfortable,” he said. The Olympic and Paralympic Games will take place between July 26 and September 8.
There will be no alcohol, as is common in the Olympic Villages, but “it will be a great place for them to share their moment,” he said.
The news will probably be welcomed by many athletes, who were asked by the International Olympic Committee to “avoid unnecessary forms of physical contact” during the recent summer Olympic and Paralympic Games due to the pandemic.
Distributing condoms at the Games is not a new tradition. According to blackboard, it all dates back to the Seoul Olympic Games in 1988, when some 8,500 condoms were distributed to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS. But the numbers have ballooned over time: at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, organizers had to order 20,000 more condoms after realizing that the initial 70,000 they had ordered would not be enough. according to Inside the Games, specialized sports publication.
The 2016 Rio Olympics topped the list, with 450,000 male and female condoms distributed, leading the New York Post to publish an article with the title“A ridiculous amount of condoms sent to Brazil for the Olympics.”
Even Tokyo, with its ban on close contact, wasn’t exactly condom-free. The organizers planned to distribute 150,000 condoms, but told Reuters “they were not for use in the athletes’ village, but for athletes to take back to their home countries to raise awareness.”
It’s impossible to know exactly how much sex there is among athletes at the Olympics, but anecdotes from athletes suggest there’s no shortage. “There’s a lot of sex,” said American soccer goalkeeper and two-time Olympic gold medalist Hope Solo he told ESPN in 2012and American swimmer and 12-time Olympic medalist Ryan Lochte said that about “70 percent to 75 percent of Olympic athletes” were having sex.
Paris also recently announced that it will take the opportunity provided by the Games to redesign the package of condoms it gives away throughout the year. The City Council is holding a competition to find the next package design, focused on the issue of sexual consent, and is encouraging a nod to the “festive setting” of the Games.
Not everyone at the Olympics is busy, and as The Washington Post previously reported, some athletes have been skeptical that the volume of condoms ordered for the past Olympics is really necessary.
The offer of 450,000 condoms for the Rio Olympics “is an absolutely huge allocation of condoms,” said retired English Olympic rowing medalist Zac Purchase. the Guardian in 2016. Compra speculated that most condoms would not be necessary. “It’s all very far from the truth of what it’s like to be there. “It’s not a cauldron of sexualized activity,” Purchase said. “We’re talking about athletes who are focused on producing the best performance of their lives.”
Meanwhile, American snowboarder and Olympic medalist Jamie Anderson said Us weekly During the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, many in the Olympic Village used the dating app Tinder to meet people. But he said it was “too distracting” and he deleted her account “to focus on the Olympics.”
While condoms could be offered to athletes, a traditional element of French culture, and a potential source of distraction, will not be offered. “Of course, there’s no champagne in the Village,” Michaud told Sky. “But they can have all the champagne they want… in Paris.”