The Olympic Games are near, and another sacred, long-honored tradition is returning along with them: free condoms. Every four years, the number of condoms heading to the Olympic Village becomes a hot, titillating topic — from the record-breaking 450,000 condoms at the 2016 games in Rio de Janeiro to the intimacy ban at the 2020 games in Tokyo, sex (and the amount of contraceptives ) at the games always sparks a very heated, very horny discussion. This year, Olympic Village director Laurent Michaud told Sky News that there are a whopping 300,000 condoms available for the 10,500 athletes competing at the 2024 Paris Games (that's almost 29 condoms per athlete, mind you).
"It is important that the conviviality here is something big," Michaud said. Over email, a Paris 2024 spokesperson confirmed to PS that there will be 200,000 male condoms, 10,000 male condoms without latex, 20,000 female condoms, and 10,000 oral dams — all of which are accompanied with a lubricant pouch — available in the Village. "We don't know how many people are likely to use them and obviously we'll adapt to the requirements if needed," Laurent Dalard, who's running the first aid and health services at Paris 2024, told Agence France-Presse .
Along with the condom program, this year's Olympics will "be rolling out a campaign to raise awareness of the main STIs and their modes of transmission at the Polyclinique des Jeux," according to the aforementioned Paris 2024 spokesperson, and the messages will foc.