Olympic organizers promise Valentine's weekend restock after condoms run out

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On Valentine's Day astatine the Milan Cortina Olympics, a renewed proviso of escaped condoms for the athlete villages was promised by the organizers aft going abbreviated during the week.

"We tin corroborate that condom supplies successful the Olympic Villages were temporarily depleted owed to higher-than-anticipated demand," the Italian organizing committee said successful a connection Saturday. "Additional supplies are being delivered and volition beryllium distributed crossed each villages betwixt contiguous and Monday."

Providing condoms for athletes has been a acquisition from organizers — and a changeless fascination to the satellite — for decades.

While 300,000 condoms were provided for much than 10,500 athletes astatine the 2024 Paris Summer Games, the archetypal banal was overmuch little for these Winter Games.

"I deliberation 10,000 person been used, 2,800 athletes — you tin spell figure, arsenic they say," International Olympic Committee spokesperson Mark Adams said Saturday. "It intelligibly shows that Valentine's Day is successful afloat plaything successful the village."

Reports of nary condoms successful week 1 of the games followed an lack of plush toys of the official mascots, Milo and Tina, successful the opening days. They proved much fashionable than expected successful the authoritative Olympics merchandise stores.

Condoms are traditionally fashionable for Olympic athletes to instrumentality location arsenic "a benignant of gift" to friends, Alpine skier Mialitiana Clerc said Saturday.

"I'm not truthful shocked. I saw it successful Beijing already," said Clerc, who besides competed for Madagascar 4 years agone astatine the Winter Games successful China. "There were immoderate boxes with a batch of condoms astatine the entranceway of each gathering wherever we were staying astatine the village."

"Every day, everything was (gone)," she recalled astir Beijing astatine an IOC quality league Saturday to beforehand its assistance programme that helps hundreds of athletes to bid and suffice for the Olympics.

"I already cognize that a batch of radical are utilizing immoderate condoms oregon conscionable taking them to springiness to their friends extracurricular of the Olympics due to the fact that it's a benignant of acquisition for them," Clerc said.

There should beryllium nary further shortage successful Italy until the Winter Games closing ceremonial connected Feb. 22.

"They volition beryllium continuously replenished until the extremity of the games to guarantee continued availability," the section organizing committee said.

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