In Tokyo Olympics 2021, Each athlete to get 14 free condoms but they can’t use them: Details

As per Olympics tradition, athletes competing in the 2021 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games will be provided with free condoms during their stay at the Olympic Village. This year, however, there’s a catch.

The athletes are to bring home these condoms as a souvenir and only put them to their intended use after they’ve stepped on home soil, the Tokyo Organising Committee announced on Thursday (May 27). Each of the participating 11,000 athletes from across the world will get around 14 condoms each.

However, the organisers have advised not to use the 1,60,000 free condoms that will be provided in the duration of the games starting on July 23 in Japan capital. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will be distributing condoms as usual as they have been doing since the 1988 Seoul Olympics after the AIDS epidemic.

However, instead of using them, they hope that they bring that back to their home countries as souvenirs. “Our intent and goal is not for athletes to use the condoms at the Olympic Village, but to help with awareness by taking them back to their own countries,” the IOC said.