Sex ban lifted as Olympics promise condom splurge
Sex at the Paris 2024 athletes' village is set to sky-rocket after officials scrapped the Tokyo Games bonk ban and promised to splurge on condoms.
Sex in the Olympic and Paralympic athletes' village is set to sky-rocket in Paris after officials tossed out the bonk ban set in place at the Tokyo 2021 Games and promised to splurge on 300,000 condoms.
The director of the village, Laurent Michaud, told Sky News that 300,000 condoms would be distributed among an estimated 14,250 athletes.
The news follows the intimacy ban set down for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics as the COVID-19 pandemic gripped the world.
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Tokyo Games officials ordered 160,000 condoms but insisted athletes must not use them at the village. Athletes were encouraged to take the condoms back to their home countries to raise awareness of HIV and AIDS.
Huge numbers of condoms have been handed out at athletes' villages at every Summer and Winter Olympics and Paralympics since the Seoul 1988 Games.
"It is very important that the conviviality here is something big," Michaud told Sky News.
"Working with the athletes' commission, we wanted to create some places where the athletes would feel very enthusiastic and comfortable."
The Olympic opening ceremony will take place on the Seine River on July 26, while the closing ceremony will be held at the Stade de France — the venue for athletics at Paris 2024 — on August 11.
The Paralympic opening ceremony will take place at the Place de la Concorde and the Champs-Elysées on August 28, while the closing ceremony will be staged at the Stade de France on September 8.