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Paris Olympics lifts intimacy ban for athletes and is stocking up on 300,000 condoms
(www.cbsnews.com)
“14,250 residents…300,000 condoms”.
So, 20 per resident.
this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2024
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From what I've read previously, I'm not sure that's enough.
I imagine they're expecting some athletes to bring their own, free condoms tend to suck.
I also imagine some people will go without by choice.
you used to be able to get proper branded Durex condoms for free in health centres in the UK with flavoured and ribbed varieties if you were under 18.
Then the boomers complained and they changed it so you could only get the "extra safe" ones which made it so you could barely feel anything.
So naturally me and my gf at the time stopped using them entirely.
"it's more aerodynamic"
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They run out every Olympics
They're Olympics branded condoms, people scoop them up as souvenirs.
“Only for Olympians!” sounds like a challenge of my stamina. Challenge accepted, condoms from 2012
Unrelated question: what's the easiest sport in which to become an Olympian between now and the 2024 Paris Olympics?
What you want is a sport that's obscure in your country. Don't need to compete if nobody else is applying to represent your country for it at the Olympics. Or so I've learned from Cool Runnings and Eddie the Eagle.
They changed that rule a while ago. You have to at least qualify in an internationally recognized competition.
I remember how, 20 years ago, I read that just knowing how to snowboard at the age of 14 was enough to be a very promising candidate for the winter Olympics in my country. I live in Brazil
I recall a story just a few years ago about a teenage girl being the only one in her division, so she did a few basic snowboard tricks and went home with first place. I can't find any articles about it now, unfortunately. I can't remember if it was the Olympics or some other competition.
So let me get this straight. You're not having any luck competing with regular schlubs in the real world, so you want to fake your way into a situation where you compete with a group of fitter and more attractive people?
Exactly, I would like to score with Olympic athletes, but I would like to exert minimal effort?
I just asked two AIs. Consensus is: shooting and pingpong
I don't think those AIs have watched a competitive ping pong match. Shooting/archery are probably ok, I'd also say curling is a solid option at least for the winter olympics
Ping pong needs skill absolutely but the endurance to run 100m with the best in the world takes quite a bit longer in addition to skill and technique
, he said from his armchair.
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https://www.cracked.com/blog/the-7-easiest-olympic-events-to-win-medal-in
Maybe shooting or if you have the cash, dressage aka horse ballet.
A friend of mine shot skeet in the Olympics one year. His gun cost about $12k. He reloaded his own rounds and went through about 250-1000 rounds a day before training, roughly tripling that leading up to the event.
The gun was so expensive because the brand would take your old one on trade every year (for a relatively small fee) for a new one. The program was for people just like him.
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This story is regularly run in the UK. The easiest is cycling, with some Olympians managing to go from zero to world-class within four years.
Obviously, it's not that easy, but if your dream is to run your way through the Olympic village, you'll find a way.
That is just plain wrong. People that switch over to cycling and are successful within a few years are athletes from other disciplines. You can not build up the necessary cardio to be an olympic level cyclist in just a few years.
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Once your event is over you're just left hanging out with a bunch of young, fit people with nothing else to do who you won't see for four years. Frankly I'm amazed they don't have sex rooms for the athletes at the Olympics just to make it easier to clean.
That’s the only OnlyFans I’d be willing to subscribe to.
Those are all expired!!!! Conspiracy to create superior athletic humans?
Yes. It was started by the Nazis at their Olympics, when they sought to breed out some supersoldiers. All the major powers agreed and it has been an unofficial rule ever since.
Edit: Ok, actually I'm lying. It was started by the Greco-Roman Olympics, when they sought to breed out some demigods. All the major powers agreed and so Asterix and Obelix were born.
Olympics in old Greece were only men, all naked no? How would that work out haha
They didn't say it was a good idea
This is so French.
I'm thinking about the tier list.
"Sprinter? No lol. No thanks."
I'd have to guess there are socioeconomic groupings as well. The rowers probably have the upper hand there, along with anything involving firearms or horses.
Nope. From what I've read even olympic athletes consider anyone good enough for the olympics as 'top tier'. And it only lasts a few weeks
Wait, why firearms?
Honestly, it was a guess, based less on US socioeconomics, and more globally. In a lot of countries, shooting involves a lot of red tape that's easier to wade through with a boatload of money.
Oh... I misread your comment and thought you were ranking them based on sexual performance based on their sport.
Like, rowers have great thighs and arms, so they're strong. Horse riders know how to... Ride. But you wouldn't want sprinters because their goal is to finish the quickest.
But then I was wondering what would make a shooter so good in bed.
Anyway, the way I read your comment gave me a good chuckle. "The Olympian Sexual Performance Tier List."
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Because of the implication.
So these Olympians are in danger?!
Nah, dude, dude, think about it: she's in the middle of Paris at the Olympic Games with some dude she barely knows. You know, she looks around and what does she see? A guy with a gun and 300,000 condoms. "Ahh, there's nowhere for me to run. What am I gonna do, say 'no?'"
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Well I hope they refresh their stock of 2022 expirations...
considering how many condoms the athletes villages uses with sex bans in place, I doubt this is gonna do much to make a difference, lol.
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There was an intimacy ban?
Did anyone tell the athletes?
From what I heard there's quite a lot of intimacy that was already a well established tradition at the Olympic villages.
Young athletes in their prime under extreme tension and stress. Yep nothing to see here, absolutely no sex will happen.
Especially when you consider that atheletes tend to be unattractive, have poor body shapes, no confidence. Definitely no sex going on.
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Not to mention most of them are used to consuming way more calories then the average human and doing intense workouts that they then stop doing during s competition. That energy needs to release somehow.
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My brain is having issues with believing the Olympics even took place 2020-2021.
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