Winter Olympics in crisis as athletes deplete entire stock of 10,000 free condoms

There was an article a few years ago where a few athletes were interviewed anonymously IIRC. It's a fuckfest. You put a lot of people in peak physical shape together, what are you expecting?

You roll initiative onto someone and they pull out one of these bad boys, and I call that a 'power move'.

A few years ago an athlete said in an interview that they are Olympics branded condoms, so he stuffed his backpack full of them

Let them. How is this not huge free publicity!

That is what I imagine too, stuffing handfuls of them to a bag to give to friends etc as a cheeky present or keep as a trophy to impress dates.

For what it's worth, there are more people at the summer Olympics than the winter ones (~10,500 in Paris and ~2,900 at Milan according to Wikipedia) but still one would think there should at least be 1/4 as much if they're just looking at athlete numbers alone.

I think Brazil gave out 400.000

They ended up only having a little over 2 per athlete after Condoms Georg took 4,000 for balloon animals.

Per athlete or pair of athletes? I'm too lazy to Google

this is how you get more olympians.

If enough people are in the market, have egg or sperm donor companies call people who medal.

considers

Looking down the road, because my expectation is that sooner or later, we're going to be doing human genetic engineering, a company getting Olympian genetic material like that might be --- as long as they can operate in a legal jurisdiction that doesn't prohibit human genetic engineering --- better off just calling up medalists and licensing their DNA. I don't think that you can copyright DNA under current US case law, though it might be patentable.

investigates

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_genetic_sequences

As of 2016, genetic sequences were not recognized as copyrightable subject matter by any jurisdiction.[3] The United States Copyright Office's position is that "DNA sequences and other genetic, biological, or chemical substances or compounds, regardless of whether they are man-made or produced by nature," are ideas, systems, or discoveries rather than copyrightable works of authorship.[15]: 23 

You might not need to copyright or patent it, though, if you can just keep the changes you make secret. I mean, you get sperm/egg from Random Person, you do your proprietary modifications, you generate an embryo, you implant. I'm not sure how hard it would be for some other company to reverse-engineer the changes by looking at people's DNA relative to background noise in the DNA.

searches

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33095042/

A large majority of countries (96 out of 106) surveyed have policy documents-legislation, regulations, guidelines, codes, and international treaties-relevant to the use of genome editing to modify early-stage human embryos, gametes, or their precursor cells. Most of these 96 countries do not have policies that specifically address the use of genetically modified in vitro embryos in laboratory research (germline genome editing); of those that do, 23 prohibit this research and 11 explicitly permit it. Seventy-five of the 96 countries prohibit the use of genetically modified in vitro embryos to initiate a pregnancy (heritable genome editing). Five of these 75 countries provide exceptions to their prohibitions. No country explicitly permits heritable human genome editing.

The thing is that in practice, if you want in vitro implantation, you can probably just travel abroad to a jurisdiction that doesn't prohibit it, unless countries assert extraterritorial jurisdiction that attaches to their citizens. If someone wants an Olympianized kid, I imagine that traveling abroad isn't that much additional barrier. Extraterrorial jurisdiction exists, but it is very rare; prohibitions on child sex tourism are one notable example that a number of countries do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterritorial_jurisdiction

EDIT: Replaced the text and citation for the legal overview, as it looks like the earlier link was to a spam site that copied it.

Um, that's not how condoms works.

This reads like the startn of Dr Seuss erotica

You can’t beat

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Plus they're officially branded, not some knockoff. It would be an amazing gag gift.

You have thousands of athletes, who are in the best shape of their lives. 20-30 years old. It's hardly surprising they hook up with eachother.

I don't think they grab them for the logo. I'm pretty sure they are being used, frequently.

Yeah sounds like PR at this point. They probably release this press message every year right when viewership and interest drops when the Olympics is halfway done.

And those people have higher than average testosterone, so they're hornier. Apparently Olympic Village is a small orgy, hence all the condoms.

he dropped his magnum condom for his magnum dong.

Winter Olympics, probably fewer people than the summer Olympics, where they had 300k.

10k literally just isn't enough. Summer Olympics where there are 3-4x more athletes tend to have hundreds of thousands in stock.

You think there are no female athletes?

These are athletes in top condition. There are probably less STDs than the general population.