Monday, 5 August 2024

Faster, Higher, Stronger

Since 1988, Olympic Village's are always well-stocked with free condoms and the Olympic Village in Paris has reportedly 300,000 of the little rubber gizmo's for the athletes which is almost double the amount available in Tokyo where there were 160,000 of them.
It all started as a way to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS which was a public health scare in 1988 and Calgary handed out a paltry 6,000 free but they did come with a pamphlet explaining safe sex.
Later Olympic organisers upheld the precedent with Albertville, France which hosted the 1992 Winter Olympics upping the number to 36,000 condoms in the colours of the Olympic rings and by the time of the Barcelona Olympics the free condoms numbered 60,000.
Lillehammer, Norway’s 1994 Winter Olympics featured 40,000 condoms but they were flavoured Atlanta in 1996 only 15,000 was made available but in Sydney the number was back up to  70,000 delivered to the Olympic Village.
Atlanta may have been tight with the durex but Salt Lake City went big with 100,000 available  and then Greece took it up a notch with 130,000 but the 2008 Beijing Olympic condoms not only had flavours but had an Olympic motto embossed on them saying: 'Faster, Higher, Stronger'.
Vancouver matched the Chinese and provided 100,000 but us Brits gave out 150,000 in 2012, Sochi went back to 100,000 but Rio went BIG with 450,000 which included 100,000 female condoms, then the 160,000 of Tokyo and now the 300,000 at Paris.
As the song almost goes, birds do it, bees do it, even world-class athletes do it and the IOC make sure they do it safely.

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