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MILAN — The Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics experienced an unexpected supply chain crisis this week after athletes depleted the entire reserve of free condoms in roughly 72 hours, prompting emergency logistics discussions typically reserved for natural disasters.
Facial expression practice for when more supplies arrive. (aschutz57/flickr)
“We can confirm that condom supplies in the Olympic Villages were temporarily depleted due to higher-than-anticipated demand,” read a statement from the organizing committee, employing the same tone one might use to explain a typhoon. International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams addressed reporters on Valentine’s Day with the quote: “It clearly shows that Valentine’s Day is in full swing in the village.”
Adams then noted that the shortage fulfilled “Rule 62 of the Olympic Charter,” which he clarified requires every Olympic Games to generate at least one condom story. “Faster, higher, stronger, together,” he added with a cheeky grin. Meanwhile, it would appear Rule 34 was achieved a while ago.
Organizers in Italy had allocated roughly 3.5 condoms per athlete for the entire two-week competition, a number that apparently failed to account for what one Spanish athlete called “the thing where everyone is ripped from training all year, and you have been super focused on the goal.” He’s talking about banging, by the way, in case that wasn’t clear.
Madagascar alpine skier Mialitiana Clerc, a veteran of the 2022 Beijing Games, expressed no surprise at the development. “I saw it in Beijing already,” she told reporters. “There were some boxes at the entrance of every building where we were staying, and every day, everything was gone.” Clerc offered an alternative theory for the rapid depletion: athletes sometimes take condoms as gifts for friends outside the Games. “It’s a kind of gift for them,” she explained, without elaborating on who is asking their Olympian friends for loose prophylactics as presents, or what the return address on those packages might say.
The shortage follows another inventory embarrassment from the Games’ opening days, when plush toys of official mascots Milo and Tina also vanished from vendor locations. Officials did not speculate on whether any connection existed between the two shortages, although it’s notable that no one is requesting the stoats be returned.
Canadian men’s hockey goaltender Logan Thompson, whose team opted to sleep outside the Village entirely to focus on winning gold, declined to comment on the condom situation but stressed that they still wanted “to get that experience” of meeting other athletes. He did not specify which experience he meant, just read between the lines already.
Emergency resupply operations commenced Saturday, with organizers pledging that condoms would be “continuously replenished until the end of the Games to ensure continued availability.” The closing ceremonies are scheduled for February 22nd, leaving athletes eight additional days of competition of one kind or another.
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