MILAN.- Athletes who compete in Winter Olympic Games In Milan-Cortina they have finished off the 10,000 condoms that the event organization has distributed free of charge in the areas where the athletes are staying.
He International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed on Saturday that the athletes participating in the Games, which began on February 6, have used up the 10,000 condoms offered by the organization.
“There are 10,000 for 2,800 athletes. Imagine!” said the IOC spokesperson with a big smile. Mark Adamsin the daily press conference.
Mialitiana Clerca 24-year-old Malagasy alpine skier, explained that free condoms had already quickly sold out at the last Winter Olympics in Beijing four years ago.
“I’m not so surprised because I know that at the Winter Olympics there are many people who use condoms because I already saw it in Beijing,” he said.
“There were many boxes at the entrance of each building where we stayed and every day the boxes were left empty,” added Clerc, who spoke at the press conference as a recipient of an IOC scholarship.
The fact that the condoms have disappeared is not necessarily synonymous with the fact that they have been used: “Many people give them to friends outside the Games as a gift,” said the skier.
The Olympic Villages where athletes stay during the Games have long been known for being a hotbed of sexual encounters between testosterone-charged competitors.
Sabalenka withdraws from the tournament in Dubai
The world No. 1 and 2, the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka and the polish Iga Swiatekthey will not compete in the tournament Dubai WTA 1000 (February 15-21), the organizers announced.
Sabalenka, who has not played since her defeat in the final of the Australian Open against the kazakh Elena Rybakina On January 31, he said he did not feel “100%.”
For her part, Swiatek, eliminated in the quarterfinals at the Doha tournament last week, justified her absence with a “scheduling change,” according to her statements in the organizers’ statement.
“See you at Indian Wells“added the Pole in reference to the next WTA 1000 tournament, which will be held in California from March 4 to 15.
In the absence of the first two qualifiers in the rankings, the first seed in the Dubai tournament will be Rybakina.
