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The intimacy ban that had been in place for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics has been lifted for the 2024 Paris Olympics, and the Olympic village, where the athletes stay during the event, will be stocked with 300,000 condoms, Laurent Michaud, director of the village, told Sky News.

In an interview about the upcoming games, which will be held in the French capital from July 26 to Aug. 11, Michaud said they are preparing for 14,250 residents at the village and are aiming to have 300,000 condoms for the athletes. 

Rules on intimacy went into effect for the 2020 Olympics that were held in Tokyo, Japan in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. To help prevent the virus from spreading, athletes were asked to limit their physical contact with each other, keeping about six and a half feet between them, except when necessary, like on the field.

Providing condoms at the Olympics has been a tradition since the 1988 Seoul Olympics, as an effort to raise awareness for HIV and AIDS, according to CBS Sports. In Tokyo, officials still handed out 150,000 condoms – even though the intimacy rules prevented any scenarios to use them.

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[-] markstos@lemmy.world 127 points 8 months ago

“14,250 residents…300,000 condoms”.

So, 20 per resident.

[-] DharkStare@lemmy.world 159 points 8 months ago

From what I've read previously, I'm not sure that's enough.

[-] scoobford@lemmy.zip 54 points 8 months ago

I imagine they're expecting some athletes to bring their own, free condoms tend to suck.

I also imagine some people will go without by choice.

[-] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

you used to be able to get proper branded Durex condoms for free in health centres in the UK with flavoured and ribbed varieties if you were under 18.

Then the boomers complained and they changed it so you could only get the "extra safe" ones which made it so you could barely feel anything.

So naturally me and my gf at the time stopped using them entirely.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago

"it's more aerodynamic"

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[-] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 23 points 8 months ago

They run out every Olympics

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 43 points 8 months ago

They're Olympics branded condoms, people scoop them up as souvenirs.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago

“Only for Olympians!” sounds like a challenge of my stamina. Challenge accepted, condoms from 2012

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 109 points 8 months ago

Unrelated question: what's the easiest sport in which to become an Olympian between now and the 2024 Paris Olympics?

[-] ours@lemmy.world 74 points 8 months ago

What you want is a sport that's obscure in your country. Don't need to compete if nobody else is applying to represent your country for it at the Olympics. Or so I've learned from Cool Runnings and Eddie the Eagle.

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 31 points 8 months ago

They changed that rule a while ago. You have to at least qualify in an internationally recognized competition.

[-] Dagnet@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

I remember how, 20 years ago, I read that just knowing how to snowboard at the age of 14 was enough to be a very promising candidate for the winter Olympics in my country. I live in Brazil

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago

I recall a story just a few years ago about a teenage girl being the only one in her division, so she did a few basic snowboard tricks and went home with first place. I can't find any articles about it now, unfortunately. I can't remember if it was the Olympics or some other competition.

[-] misterundercoat@lemmy.world 62 points 8 months ago

So let me get this straight. You're not having any luck competing with regular schlubs in the real world, so you want to fake your way into a situation where you compete with a group of fitter and more attractive people?

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 53 points 8 months ago

Exactly, I would like to score with Olympic athletes, but I would like to exert minimal effort?

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 24 points 8 months ago

I just asked two AIs. Consensus is: shooting and pingpong

[-] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

I don't think those AIs have watched a competitive ping pong match. Shooting/archery are probably ok, I'd also say curling is a solid option at least for the winter olympics

[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 10 points 8 months ago

Ping pong needs skill absolutely but the endurance to run 100m with the best in the world takes quite a bit longer in addition to skill and technique

, he said from his armchair.

[-] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago

Why not both at the same time?

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[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 14 points 8 months ago
[-] sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 8 months ago

A friend of mine shot skeet in the Olympics one year. His gun cost about $12k. He reloaded his own rounds and went through about 250-1000 rounds a day before training, roughly tripling that leading up to the event.

The gun was so expensive because the brand would take your old one on trade every year (for a relatively small fee) for a new one. The program was for people just like him.

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[-] frezik@midwest.social 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

How hard can high diving be? You just fall off a ledge. ^/s^

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[-] EnderMB@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

This story is regularly run in the UK. The easiest is cycling, with some Olympians managing to go from zero to world-class within four years.

Obviously, it's not that easy, but if your dream is to run your way through the Olympic village, you'll find a way.

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[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 88 points 8 months ago

Once your event is over you're just left hanging out with a bunch of young, fit people with nothing else to do who you won't see for four years. Frankly I'm amazed they don't have sex rooms for the athletes at the Olympics just to make it easier to clean.

[-] olympicyes@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

That’s the only OnlyFans I’d be willing to subscribe to.

[-] Colors@lemmy.world 28 points 8 months ago

Those are all expired!!!! Conspiracy to create superior athletic humans?

[-] Lath@kbin.earth 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yes. It was started by the Nazis at their Olympics, when they sought to breed out some supersoldiers. All the major powers agreed and it has been an unofficial rule ever since.

Edit: Ok, actually I'm lying. It was started by the Greco-Roman Olympics, when they sought to breed out some demigods. All the major powers agreed and so Asterix and Obelix were born.

[-] Dagnet@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Olympics in old Greece were only men, all naked no? How would that work out haha

[-] swab148@startrek.website 8 points 8 months ago

They didn't say it was a good idea

[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 20 points 8 months ago

This is so French.

[-] OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

I'm thinking about the tier list.

"Sprinter? No lol. No thanks."

I'd have to guess there are socioeconomic groupings as well. The rowers probably have the upper hand there, along with anything involving firearms or horses.

[-] nonailsleft@lemm.ee 25 points 8 months ago

Nope. From what I've read even olympic athletes consider anyone good enough for the olympics as 'top tier'. And it only lasts a few weeks

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[-] MyNamesNotRobert@lemmynsfw.com 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

How do they even enforce a sex ban in the first place? Do they have drug test equivalents for sexual activity now? I hope it never gets to a point where most employers are firing people for having too much sex while off duty.

[-] Belgdore@lemm.ee 28 points 8 months ago

Presumably they were quarantining the participants between matches because of COVID. There is a difference between making sure the world’s best athletes don’t contract a disease that affects their respiratory functions and work places preventing sex.

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[-] mandurrz@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

Well I hope they refresh their stock of 2022 expirations...

[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 9 points 8 months ago
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[-] JimboDHimbo@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 months ago

My brain is having issues with believing the Olympics even took place 2020-2021.

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

considering how many condoms the athletes villages uses with sex bans in place, I doubt this is gonna do much to make a difference, lol.

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[-] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

There was an intimacy ban?

Did anyone tell the athletes?

From what I heard there's quite a lot of intimacy that was already a well established tradition at the Olympic villages.

[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 76 points 8 months ago

Young athletes in their prime under extreme tension and stress. Yep nothing to see here, absolutely no sex will happen.

[-] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 75 points 8 months ago

Especially when you consider that atheletes tend to be unattractive, have poor body shapes, no confidence. Definitely no sex going on.

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[-] PoopingCough@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

Not to mention most of them are used to consuming way more calories then the average human and doing intense workouts that they then stop doing during s competition. That energy needs to release somehow.

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