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.

      • scoobford
        541·
        3 months ago

        I imagine they’re expecting some athletes to bring their own, free condoms tend to suck.

        I also imagine some people will go without by choice.

        • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk
          9·
          3 months ago

          you used to be able to get proper branded Durex condoms for free in health centres in the UK with flavoured and ribbed varieties if you were under 18.

          Then the boomers complained and they changed it so you could only get the “extra safe” ones which made it so you could barely feel anything.

          So naturally me and my gf at the time stopped using them entirely.

        • dustyData@lemmy.worldEspañol
          3·
          3 months ago

          free condoms tend to suck

          They are literally made in the exact same factory with the exact same material. The only difference is marketing and some custom molds for like, ribbed, ultra thin, etc. Almost all brands in the world share the same dozen or so factories.

          • scoobford
            4·
            3 months ago

            Usually the lube isn’t very good and they’re the extra thicc kind that feel like fucking a milk carton.

            I’m sure they’re just as safe as the kind you buy at the store.

          • kautau@lemmy.world
            26·
            3 months ago

            “Only for Olympians!” sounds like a challenge of my stamina. Challenge accepted, condoms from 2012