The 2024 Olympics being set in the City of Love was divine timing.
Organizers for this summer’s Paris Games are encouraging friendly mixing and mingling among athletes from different nations — and have provided 300,000 condoms for those staying in the Olympic Village, according to Laurent Michaud, the director of the 2024 Paris Village.
The move comes after the 2021 Summer Games in Tokyo, which exercised strict social distancing policies due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including an intimacy ban enacted by the International Olympic Committee.
“We are aiming to have 300,000 condoms here at disposal for the athletes in the village,” Michaud told Sky News. “It’s a quantity to make sure everybody would have what they are expecting and what they need.
“We want to create some places where the athletes will feel very enthusiastic and comfortable so they can have some conversations, discussions and to share their core values about sports.”
The Olympic Village will reportedly welcome 9,000 athletes for the Paris Games, which will take place from July 26 through August 11, and that amount of condoms is enough for almost two each for every day of the Olympics.
“It is very important that the conviviality here is something big,” Michaud said. “Working with the athletes commission, we wanted to create some places where the athletes would feel very enthusiastic and comfortable.”
Michaud also shared the committee created a Village Club with a lounge, but it will not feature alcohol.
“So we have made a Village Club with a lounge with a sports bar with Coca Cola,” Michaud said. “And I mean, no alcohol of course over there. But it’s going to be a great place so they can actually share their moment and environment here. No champagne in the village, of course but they can have all the champagne they want also in Paris.”
