2024-04-14 10:55:00
Text: Editorial Cuba Noticias 360
The Tokyo Olympics will be the ones with the least consumption of condoms since in 1988 in Seoul the organizers distributed them for the first time for free.
This forecast is realistic due to the fear of the Covid-19 pandemic but at the same time due to the strict health protocols that the Japanese and the International Olympic Committee have announced for athletes and other personnel involved in the Games that must open on July 23, if the epidemiological situation does not prevent it.
Despite the pandemic, the organizers have announced that athletes will receive 150,000 free condoms. Approximately 11,000 athletes are expected to attend over two weeks.
Although it may seem that contradictory messages are emerging, the Japanese prefer to be cautious. It’s that while the batch of condoms is announced on the other hand, athletes are told to “avoid unnecessary forms of physical contact” such as hugs, high fives and handshakes and to stay 2 meters or 6 feet away from each other. other athletes during the Games to reduce the risk of spreading the coronavirus, according to a 33-page manual published this week.
Condoms have long been handed out at the Olympics, and organizers told AFP this week they planned to continue the tradition.
“Sex at 2 meters could be an Olympic event in itself,” wrote one commenter on Facebook.
The first Olympic condoms were handed out at the Summer Games in Seoul, South Korea, in 1988 in an attempt to prevent the spread of HIV, Time reported. In Beijing in 2008, organizers supplied around 100,000 condoms. And at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro, a record 450,000 condoms were distributed, enough for each participating athlete to have 42 condoms. Japanese condom makers have been preparing for the 2020 Olympics for at least three years, waiting for the chance to show off their ultra-thin condoms, Reuters reported. So despite the pandemic, this Olympic tradition could continue…but with masks.