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Tue 27 Jul, 2004 04:48 am
ATHENS (Reuters) - Athletes at next month's Athens Olympics are expected to go for gold in the bedroom as well as on the field, with 130,000 free condoms being made available throughout the Games.
Condom manufacturer Durex has donated the prophylactics as well as 30,000 sachets of lubricant for the August 13-29 Olympics, "to smooth the performance of the world's elite sports people in the arena and under the covers," it said in a statement.
The condoms will be available to over 17,000 athletes and officials at the pharmacy of the athletes' Olympic village.
"The condoms will come in an individual pack, with an instruction leaflet in various languages," said a spokeswoman for Durex Greece.
"We have discussed the numbers with the organising committee and we think they are realistic as we know from previous Olympics that athletes do come into contact during the Games."
In the Sydney 2000 Games, each competing athlete was given 51 condoms on arrival at the Olympic Village, but another 20,000 had to be shipped in when supplies began to run low.
Organising committee? It should be renamed the Oragasming committee.
I would have thought that those athletes would have conserved their perfomance, away from the arena. Now we know why Britain always does so well, and Hungary so badly ;D.
This was done at the Sydney Olympics as well (only 25,000 then, 30,000 now) - and before, too.
I doubt the company is trying to do it for the athletes themselves it's jsut a great way to advertise to a huge number of respected people about which condom to use.
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