This July, thousands of young, healthy athletes from all over the world will converge on Paris for the Summer Games, and the City of Love is getting ready to welcome them. Olympic organizers have ordered 300,000 condoms for 2024, to be distributed free to the athletes in the Olympic Village. We’ve come a long way from pretending that hookups didn’t happen among the participating athletes. After all, back when the modern Olympics began in 1896, women didn’t compete at all. But even before the free condom distributions began, on-site pharmacies stocked plenty of them at the Olympics for those who wanted them.
The first Olympic condom giveaway was in Calgary, Alberta, for the Winter Games in 1988. Organizers stocked 6,000 of them. The number has been raised exponentially since then. In 1992, they came in the colors of the Olympics rings at Albertville, France. There have been attempts to charge money for them, and vending machine have been tried over the years, but it’s just easier to hand them out free. The 300,000 condoms for the 2024 games isn’t even the record number, either. Read up on the history of condom giveaways at the Olympics at Mental Floss.
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