South Korea sets Winter Olympics record in Pyeongchang – for condoms

This month’s Winter Olympics in South Korea will set a record even before the first athlete comes out of a starting gate, organisers said on Thursday – for the largest number of free condoms handed out at a Winter Games.

Over little more than two weeks from the opening of the Olympiad next Friday, a total of 110,000 contraceptive sheaths will be distributed, 10,000 more than at Vancouver in 2010 or Sochi in 2014.

With 2,925 athletes taking part, it equates to an average of 37.6 condoms per sportsman and sportswoman.

But they will be made available to all participants.

“Baskets with condoms will be placed at both men’s and women’s toilets” at athletes’ villages in Pyeongchang and Gangneung, the main press centre, the media village as well as medical centres, the organisers said.