The action doesn’t stop after they cross the finish line.
About 10,000 free condoms provided to athletes competing at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy were reportedly used up within a record three days.
Olympic organizers are now in a mad dash – ironically on International Condom Day – to stock more rubbers for the frisky sports stars staying at the Milan Olympic Village, Italian outlet La Stampa reported.
“The supplies ran out in just three days,” one unidentified competitor told the outlet.
“They promised us more will arrive, but who knows when.”
Only 10,000 condoms were supplied to just under 3,000 elite competitors this year – a stark decline from the 300,000 doled out to nearly 11,000 athletes at the 2024 Paris Olympics, the outlet reported.
The Summer Olympics attract about three times more athletes than the Winter Games.
The 2021 Tokyo Games saw some 160,000 sheaths distributed to more than 11,000 medal chasers, with organizers dishing out a whopping 450,000 condoms at the Rio De Janeiro Olympics in 2016.
With the Olympic Village a notorious hotspot for amorous athletes, hundreds of thousands of complimentary rubbers have been made available since the Seoul 1988 Games to encourage safe sex.
“Yes, we provide free condoms to athletes in the Olympic Village,” Lombardy’s regional governor, Attilio Fontana, posted on social media last week.
“If this seems strange to some, they’re unaware of the established Olympic practice. It began in Seoul 1988 to raise awareness among athletes and young people about sexually transmitted disease prevention — a topic that shouldn’t cause embarrassment.”
