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Vancouver 2010: Olympic Village Faces Condom Shortage

by Jordan Yerman | February 25, 2010 at 02:27 pm

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The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics are not yet over, but the Olympic Village is running out of condoms. As with the Great Canadian Red Mitten Shortage, Vancouver has had to import condoms from other parts of Canada, courtesy of CANFAR (Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research).

Olympics and Sex: Athletes at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games

So, is the Olympic condom shortage due to an unexpected uptick in Olympic sex? Wouldn't surprise me- have you seen this group of athletes? Or maybe the athletes are just grabbing condoms by the handful as offbeat souvenirs.

This crosses over into the territory of the red mitten shortage: The Bay didn't predict how popular those red Canada mittens would be with the locals, and so stock sent from Canada's other Bay locations to meet the unending demand for the too-cute red mittens. To no avail, though, as everyone wanted red mittens.

Now adult sizes are sold out... just like Vancouver 2010 condoms.

The demand for condoms at the Vancouver Games is in stark contrast to Beijing. Last fall, a collector auctioned 5,000 condoms that were left over from the 2008 Summer Games. The special edition sheaths were wrapped in souvenir packages that included the Olympic motto in both English and Chinese.

Quatchi, arguably the most popular of the Vancouver 2010 mascots, was unavailable for comment.

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Susan Bender (not verified)

at 16:06 on March 1st, 2010

How much are condoms and how many were given by the company? It is too bad the company that supplied the product for free would have, instead, contributed the cost of making and shipping the product into currency and given the money to an organization that helps fund olympic athletes around the world with their training costs. This contribution would have meant more to the athletes and showed a more meaningful recognition of their talents, abilities and hard work. This would have much longer beneficial rewards to the athlete down the road. I feel not all athletes had sex during the olympics and I feel that they would have been groaning thinking of all the money that could have been used instead for their training and purchase of equipment. And if the condoms were collected to sell off for their own private gain - what has the company gained? What a waste of money and a waste to help develop future Olympians.