2024-04-05 00:28:26
New Delhi: Soon Paris is going to host the Olympics, one of the biggest sporting events in the world. Organizers in the City of Love have decided to lift restrictions on intimate relationships between competing players and are stockpiling condoms to distribute in the village.
The Paris 2024 Olympics will lift the restrictions imposed during the Tokyo Olympics 2020. These restrictions were imposed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. At the Tokyo Olympics, players were required to maintain a distance of one and a half meters among themselves and were prohibited from physical contact such as shaking hands or hugging, with limited spectators only allowed to clap and chant slogans or sing.
Why are condoms distributed in the Olympic Village?
This is not the first time that condoms have become a part of the Olympic Games Village content. Since the 1988 Seoul Olympics, organizers have distributed contraceptives to spread awareness about HIV and AIDS. Even during the Tokyo Olympics, 150,000 condoms were distributed to players, but due to reduced physical contact due to strict COVID-19 restrictions, they were strictly prohibited from using them and were told to take the contraceptives back to their countries.
The lifting of COVID-19 restrictions by the International Olympic Committee will allow people to socialize again in the Paris Olympic Village, which will reportedly house 9,000 athletes and provide them with two condoms each day of the Olympics. Laurent Michaud, director of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games Village, told Sky News that the committee will have a sports bar for athletes, but they will not be able to enjoy French Champagne.
Players will enjoy French Champagne
‘Together with the Athlete Commission, we wanted to create spaces where athletes feel very excited and comfortable,’ Laurent said. This will be a great place…they can share their time and environment here. ‘You certainly won’t get champagne in the village, but they can drink as much champagne as they want in Paris.’ Michaud said the village will feature a buffet more than 350 meters long featuring global cuisine, as well as a variety of French specialties, to take care of the players’ dietary and nutritional needs.
The most expensive sports village ever built for the Paris Olympics at a cost of 2 billion euros, the grand Olympic opening ceremony will be held on the banks of the River Seine, where athletes will board a fleet of boats.