We ’re just a few week from the showtime of the2016 Rio Summer Olympics . Over 10,000 athletes will descend on Rio to contend for some of the most sought - after awards in sport . Many of them will also be suffer a portion of sex . At least , the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) must think so , because they ’ve ordered a record - set up issue of safe for the Olympic Village .
Being shipped to Brazil : 350,000 virile condoms , 100,000 female condoms , and 175,000 packets of lubricating substance , according tothe Daily Beast . That ’s more than three times the number of condom shipped to the London Olympics , which were call the"raunchiest games ever . "
“ It is an absolutely huge allocation of condoms , ” Olympic rowing medallist Zac Purchase toldThe Guardian . “ But it is all so far from the truth of what it ’s like to be in there . It ’s not some sexualized cauldron of activity . We ’re talking about athletes who are focused on producing the best carrying out of their life . ”
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There are certainly a couple explanations outside of general randiness for why there are 42 condoms available forevery athlete . Though the Olympic Committee is n’t saying it , fears about the Zika virusare certainly one ram power . Another is that this is the first prison term that the IOC is distributing female condoms , which may also be drive by fears about Zika .
Even the comparatively paltry telephone number of rubber sent to London were a heavy haul historically . The Daily Beastreports that condoms were first distributed at the 1988 Seoul Games . There , 8,500 condoms were disseminate , resulting in many condoms being found on rooftop around the Olympic Village . The Olympic Association banned out-of-door sex inside the Olympic Village in response .
The 1992 Barcelona Games receive 90,000 condom , a immense issue compared to just 15,000 at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics . The 2000 Sydney Games had an initial order of 70,000 , but organizers had to order another 20,000 because they ran out halfway through . Athens set a disc in 2004 when Durex donate 130,000 condoms .
Rio truly has a massive turn of condoms , and despite Purchase ’s statement on the focus of athletes , some say the focus is occasionally elsewhere . atomic number 79 medal snowboarder Jamie Anderson toldUs Magazineat the Sochi Games , " Tinder in the Olympic Village is next level . It ’s all athletes ! In the mountain hamlet it ’s all athletes . It ’s hilarious . There are some cuties on there . " At the London Games , there were reports thatGrindr crasheddue to user overload as the athletes arrived .
American mark shooter Josh Lakatos also spilled the bean toESPNabout the Olympic Village in Sydney . He convinced a maid to let him stay in his housing after his outcome ended . " The next dayspring , " Lakatos told ESPN , " swear to god , the integral women ’s 4x100 electrical relay squad of some Scandinavian - looking country walks out of the house , followed by boy from our side . And I ’m just going , ' Holy crap , we ’d watched these miss draw the night before . '
" I ’m running a friggin ' whorehouse in the Olympic Village ! I ’ve never find so much bacchanalia in my intact life . "
The record - setting rubber loading may be drive by awe over Zika , but it ’s also driven by athlete libido . Shocking that this would be the case when you take thousands of the world ’s skillful athlete at their physical peak and put them into dorms in an exotic locus . Shocking .
