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Winter Olympics in crisis as athletes deplete entire stock of 10,000 free condoms
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2026
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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.
A few years ago an athlete said in an interview that they are Olympics branded condoms, so he stuffed his backpack full of them
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.
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'.
Let them. How is this not huge free publicity!