Condom shortage hits Winter Olympics as supplies vanish in just 3 days

It may be the Winter Games, but the temperature at the Olympic Village is heated.

The supply of condoms given to competitors at the Milan Cortina Olympics have run out within a record-breaking three days, according to Italian newspaper La Stampa.

Condoms have traditionally been provided to Olympians since the 1988 Seoul Games to raise awareness of sexually transmitted diseases at the height of the aids epidemic. In Paris 2024, organizers supplied Olympians with 300,000 condoms, though the record goes to the 2016 Rio Olympics, when a whopping 450,000 condoms were distributed.

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