This 2024 Olympics swag truly takes the gold. As athletes from around the world descend upon the Olympic Village in Paris ahead of the international sporting event's Opening Ceremony, airing live on NBC and Peacock July 26 , they're finding a special welcome gift waiting for them inside their rooms. In addition to a travel case filled with toiletry essentials, they also received packs of condoms branded with Phryge, the hat-shaped mascot for the Paris Summer Games, according to an unboxing video posted by Canadian sailor Sarah Douglas July 22.
"On the field of love, play fair," read one of the condom's wrappers. "Ask for consent." Another packaging showed Phryge winking with the caption, "No need to be a gold medalist to wear it!" But the goodies didn't stop there.
As Dutch skateboarder Keet Oldenbeuving shared in a TikTok video of her own, the Olympic Village welcome kit also included a phone and a special wooden badge that allows athletes to get "free drinks" at vending machines. And yes, those infamous "cardboard beds" rumored to deter people from having sex were also in her room. But returning Olympians will likely be unfazed by condoms being offered around the Olympic Village.
After all, the quarters are known to be a hotbed of steamy escapades , with organizers supplying prophylactics to athletes since the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul. Since then, the demand has increased. "It is an absolutely huge allocation of condoms," Olympian Zac Purchase told The Guardian in 2016, t.