Love in a cold climate: Winter Olympic village runs out of condoms after three days

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/13/winter-olympic-village-runs-out-of-condoms-after-three-days-milano-cortina-2026

Already?? Are people just a lot more horny when it's cold outside?

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zout@fedia.io · 165 pts · 193d (6 replies)

According to the article 10.000 were provide for 3.000 people, while in Paris 300.000 were provided for 10.500 people, so about 10 times as much. Nothing to do with hornyness, a lot to do with someone in charge being either a cheapskate or a prude.

Also, since 1988 condoms are provided for free to the athletes, and since 1988 the press feels they need to report on this. Yes we get it, these are just normal people doing normal people things.

leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 62 pts · 193d

normal people

Nah, it's much worse than that... they're young, beautiful people, at the peak of fitness and health, having the best time of their lives yet in serious need of de-stressing due to the competitive nature of the event (yet unable to do drugs and alcohol due to needing to be in top shape and anti-doping regulations), all bunched together in hotels.

Three condoms per person is evidently way too few to contain that.

deacon@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 193d (2 replies)

But they are so horny! How is that not newsworthy? I mean, they are really horny!

oatscoop@midwest.social · 92 pts · 193d (1 reply)

So we took a bunch of people in their late teens to mid twenties and put them somewhere new and exciting. We're treating them like rock stars. They're all in peak physical form, good looking, and under constant physical and mental stress.

And you're telling me during their time off they're going to be fucking each other? Who could have predicted this !?

Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 191d

Aw, now im jealous. They're sinners!

RantingCanuck@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 193d

At the 2016 Games in Rio a total of 450,000 condoms where distributed among the 11,180 athletes... 10,000 is a joke (even if the Winter Olympics are a 1/3 of the size of the summer)

Sharkticon@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 193d

God damn Italians and their hatred of safe sex.

wetsoggybread@lemmy.world · 106 pts · 193d (5 replies)

Well if you're trapped in a small village with a bunch of fit and lean 20-30 year olds from different countries wouldn't you want to bang them? This happens at every Olympic

Amuletta@lemmy.ca · 33 pts · 193d (2 replies)

I don't think they've ever run out quite this quickly before.

OrteilGenou@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 193d

Condoms courtesy of Vatican City

"Vatican City: When it comes to creation, we're pros!"

otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 193d

There's a joke in there about the ubermensch, the state of things, etc., but it's wicked early and my brain's barely twitching. 🤪

django@discuss.tchncs.de · 18 pts · 193d (1 reply)

Someone should have told me, i would have had a lot more interest in sports.

Sturgist@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 193d

I mean....you say that....but let's be honest with eachother here....

CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 71 pts · 193d (4 replies)

“In Paris the athletes received 300,000 condoms — two per day each— but the numbers for these Winter Games were significantly lower: not even 10,000,” La Stampa’s report states.

In Paris, the beds started breaking.

jqubed@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 193d (3 replies)

Just under 3,000 athletes are competing at the Winter Olympics, compared to around 10,500 in the Paris Games two years ago.

Rough estimation says the organizers should’ve provided closer to 100,000 condoms, 10x what they supplied.

In Paris, the beds started breaking.

I thought that didn’t actually happen? Despite reports before the games that the beds were made of cardboard to prevent sex by collapsing under the weight of two people, the organizers denied that was the reason and athletes posted videos during the games showing multiple people jumping on a bed.

The reason for the cardboard was so they could recycle the beds and IIRC it was a Rupert Murdoch tabloid that started the story that it was actually to prevent sex.

CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 17 pts · 193d

You’re right about the beds and it’s a bit of a joke but I do recall now that it was a Murdoch anti environmentalist slag who wrote it up.

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 193d (1 reply)

I thought that didn’t actually happen?

In answer to the question as written: yes, you did think that didn't happen. I'm mostly certain on this.

Happy to help!

Sturgist@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 193d

Not all heroes wear capes

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 193d (6 replies)

Bruh could you imagine training your whole life to get into the Olympics village fuckfest and then find out they out of rubbers?

modus@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 193d (4 replies)

Just wash them out. They're pretty durable. They fit right over the little racks in the dishwasher.

slykethephoxenix@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 193d (1 reply)

I heard you can just turn them inside out?

modus@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 193d

I heard that's what my dad did. Never met him to ask, though.

A7thStone@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 192d

Lemminary@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 192d

Nice, so they'll loosen up a bit like old socks so as not strangle my massive cock. Thanks for the, uh... tip.

D_C@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 193d

I'd jump on my toboggan and zip right out to the local petrol station toilet vending machine with some coins at the ready.
If I don't 'slip and slide' then I don't slip and slide!!!

janus2@lemmy.zip · 45 pts · 193d (2 replies)

this has been an ongoing meme since the invention of the Olympics

somebody did a reverse NASA with the tampons here. the correct amount of condoms to order for the Olympics is probably something like (the number that somebody could use if they were fucking 24/7 the entire event) x (the number of attendees) x (quadruple it for good measure)

brown567@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 193d (1 reply)

I read something saying the Paris games had 2 per person per day, while these games had about 10x less

HubertManne@piefed.social · 28 pts · 193d (2 replies)

I swear every olympics has something around this. something about having people at the peak of physical ability all hanging out together.

SupahRevs@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 193d (1 reply)

There was an interview with an Olympian who said its not really that much of a hook up time. Its that you only get this one chance to take olympic condoms. So people just grab them as souvenirs. Who wouldn't want to take home an olympic condom?

ChairmanMeow@programming.dev · 24 pts · 193d

Poor Olympian was the only one not invited to the orgy apparently.

Naz@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 192d (2 replies)

There are plenty of other activities to keep athletes busy in the Olympic village, including a large gym, table football and air hockey games and even a piano. There are also free drinks machines, stacked with Coca-Cola and Innocent smoothies.

Uh-huh, as opposed to banging the entire Volleyball team

cdf12345@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 191d (1 reply)

There’s a winter volleyball team?

how_we_burned@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 191d

Well for the athletes quarters they had a whole beach imported and built, with sun lamps and everything. Plus a Brazilian volleyball team

teft@piefed.social · 26 pts · 193d (3 replies)

A bunch of fit young people pushed together into a tiny village. Why wouldn’t you have literal truck loads of protection? They’re very obviously going to fuck like rabbits.

alternategait@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 193d (1 reply)
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DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 191d

Definitely Renaissance Faire

RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 193d

Birth control isn't very kosher in Italy.

Horsey@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 193d (1 reply)

I’ll easily use 2 condoms in one session… sometimes it rolls in a bad way or you put too much lube. If I was given 3 condoms to last me the whole Olympics, I’d first thing DoorDash a pack of 30 (since athletes aren’t allowed to leave the village).

HubertManne@piefed.social · 6 pts · 193d

yeah I mean every time you come you need to throw a new one on.

redbrick@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 193d (2 replies)

They should make an official Olympic event on how these condoms get used so fast. People want to know...friend wants to know.

gibmiser@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 193d (1 reply)

The 2027 summer Olympics, proudly sponsored by pornhub.

Theatomictruth@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 193d

There is a music video by Tommy Cash along these lines, it’s actually hosted on Pornhub because it’s quite pornographic

Jyek@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 193d (1 reply)

I feel like Olympic athletes should be able to supply the condoms they will need for their trip...

Gerudo@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 193d

I'm sure condoms can be tough to get in some countries due to availability or even cultural norms

gibmiser@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 193d (2 replies)

A friend's stepfather used to live in Alaska and he told us, Middle school kids, that when you are stuck inside all the time, all there is to do is fuck and get drunk

Drusas@fedia.io · 2 pts · 192d

Also meth.

BCsven@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 191d

I mean power outages have also led to higher birthrates 9 months later

couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 193d (2 replies)

Can't they just provide 1 (washable) condom each?

monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 193d (1 reply)

They could probably share. They aren’t ALL fucking at the same time. Take turns!

EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 192d

In a row?

DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 193d (2 replies)

So to make sure I'm reading this properly... Athletes getting hot and sweaty with each other for a couple night stands?

AugustWest@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 193d (1 reply)

I don’t think they are getting furniture out of the deal, just sex.

DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 193d

🤣 I fucking walked into that one like a garden rake

SoftQuartz@anarchist.nexus · 6 pts · 193d

I swear I've read this before lol

lurch@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 193d

inb4 they were actually using them for water balloons

cb_desu@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 192d

I would win gold in the rawdogging competition then.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 193d

behind schedule. they usually run out on the first day

tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 193d

Nero fiddle vibes