While I don't doubt many athletes are being quite active.
I'd also believe it's a joke at this point for them to all take as many as they can no matter if they intend to use them or not.
There was an article a few years ago where a few athletes were interviewed anonymously IIRC. It's a fuckfest. You put a lot of people in peak physical shape together, what are you expecting?
Also people who by and large havent been out living wild social lives for quite a while. Laser beam focused on one goal. Once you have competed, one way or another the pressure is off and you are surrounded by people who are in the exact same position.
you are surrounded by people who are in the exact same position.
Or, due to physicality and flexibility, some new positions!
You roll initiative onto someone and they pull out one of these bad boys, and I call that a 'power move'.
A few years ago an athlete said in an interview that they are Olympics branded condoms, so he stuffed his backpack full of them
Let them. How is this not huge free publicity!
That is what I imagine too, stuffing handfuls of them to a bag to give to friends etc as a cheeky present or keep as a trophy to impress dates.
In France, they gave 300k condoms. That's 30x the amount they gave here. And they used them all in France, how long the fuck did they think those 10k would last?
For what it's worth, there are more people at the summer Olympics than the winter ones (~10,500 in Paris and ~2,900 at Milan according to Wikipedia) but still one would think there should at least be 1/4 as much if they're just looking at athlete numbers alone.
10k for 20 days of olympic and for 3k athletes that is 10k * 2 / 20 / 3k = 1/3 of a condom per couple per day, that sounds down right reasonable for a bunch of young, perfectly shaped teenagers constantly in celebration mode.
I wouldn’t want to share a condom with two other couples each day. That’s barbaric. /j
I think Brazil gave out 400.000
That's less than 4 per athlete, not sure why they thought that would be enough.
They ended up only having a little over 2 per athlete after Condoms Georg took 4,000 for balloon animals.
Per athlete or pair of athletes? I'm too lazy to Google
Per athlete. It's about 6 and a half per male athlete.
Which poor guy has half a Dingdong?
You got the numbers backwards. This is one guy who has 6 and a half condoms worth of dingdong.
I don’t see why condom companies aren’t shipping in truckloads for free. You can’t beat that kind of publicity. L
This reads like the startn of Dr Seuss erotica
You can’t beat
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If I was an athlete and there were condoms with Olympic logo branding getting handed out, I would SO hoard them for souvenirs. Can you imagine?
They're in Italy. There are farmacie all over the place. They can get store-brand ones.
Edit: Yup. Olympic Games branding. Goes in the scrapbook album. Unused, mind you.
Edit 2: https://lemmy.world/post/43193842
Plus they're officially branded, not some knockoff. It would be an amazing gag gift.
gag gift??? Wrong kink, my friend
They’d need quite a lot of them (which they don’t have) but I suppose they could make it work
You have thousands of athletes, who are in the best shape of their lives. 20-30 years old. It's hardly surprising they hook up with eachother.
I don't think they grab them for the logo. I'm pretty sure they are being used, frequently.
Also likely having very high testosterone levels
Young, fit and healthy athletes, following intense build up and cumulative training are ready to peak explosively, just about now.
Doesn’t this happen virtually every year?
Yeah sounds like PR at this point. They probably release this press message every year right when viewership and interest drops when the Olympics is halfway done.
Best souvenir going. But also a lot of young people in peak physical condition. As someone I know commented "everyone is 10/10 from the neck down."
And those people have higher than average testosterone, so they're hornier. Apparently Olympic Village is a small orgy, hence all the condoms.
10'000 is super low, I remember hearing about one or two hundred thousand in recent years. I guess that was regular and not winter, but still. No wonder they ran out.
Winter Olympics, probably fewer people than the summer Olympics, where they had 300k.
And I find condoms past the expiration date.
It's ok. They have AIDS drugs now and dudes can't get pregnant
You think there are no female athletes?
These are athletes in top condition. There are probably less STDs than the general population.
That attitude has you going home from the olympics with 5 STDs
"Did you bring home the gold?"
"I brought home something"
I wonder why they don't carry some from home lol
Check who took them. Could be people from poorer countries, where condoms are expensive.
Could be random religious zealots who are envious (or worse) of people actually heaving sex.
10k literally just isn't enough. Summer Olympics where there are 3-4x more athletes tend to have hundreds of thousands in stock.
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