Paris Olympics lifts intimacy ban for athletes and is stocking up on 300,000 condoms
Paris Olympics lifts intimacy ban for athletes and is stocking up on 300,000 condoms
The Olympic village will include a sports bar – but there will be no alcohol, organizers said.
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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Unrelated question: what's the easiest sport in which to become an Olympian between now and the 2024 Paris Olympics?
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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.
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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?
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https://www.cracked.com/blog/the-7-easiest-olympic-events-to-win-medal-in
Maybe shooting or if you have the cash, dressage aka horse ballet.
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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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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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Muff diving
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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.
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That’s the only OnlyFans I’d be willing to subscribe to.
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Those are all expired!!!! Conspiracy to create superior athletic humans?
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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.
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This is so French.
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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.
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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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Sprinter? I hard know ‘er.
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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.
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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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It's on the article, on the summary, on the post text. But you can count on people on the internet to NOT ever read what's directly in front of them before making or upvoting a dumb comment.
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Well I hope they refresh their stock of 2022 expirations...
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Why did I watch this
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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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This ban was in place for one Olympic game, due to covid only. Olympic organizers have distributed condoms since Seoul '88. And they were always free to have as much sex as they wanted ever since the inception of the modern games.
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My brain is having issues with believing the Olympics even took place 2020-2021.
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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.
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Young athletes in their prime under extreme tension and stress. Yep nothing to see here, absolutely no sex will happen.
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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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"What's your most memorable moment from the Olympics?"
"Uhhhh.... You know, the... competition."
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It took France this long to realize that people fuck a lot?
Do you people downvoting me not realize that France is like Fuck Central?
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You didn't read the post at all did you?
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The post that said it took them this long to lift the Tokyo ban? I'm pretty sure I did.
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the issue was covid not hormones
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