The condoms that will be given at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics are meant to be souvenirs from the competitors’ time in Japan, which they will enjoy using once they are back home.
THE organizers of this year’s Tokyo Olympics will give out 150,000 condoms as souvenirs to participating athletes in Japan.
However, the organizer is not encouraging the athletes to use it at the games village but to bring it back to their own countries.
Quoting the games organizer, Tokyo-based news site SoraNews24 reported that they wanted to raise awareness about sexually- transmitted diseases.
In other words, the Olympic condoms are meant to be souvenirs from the competitors’ time in Japan, which they will enjoy using once they are back home.
The organizing committee is said to be examining the specific distribution process, implying that perhaps they would not be given out until after the Games are done and athletes are leaving the village.
It has been a tradition since the 1988 Seoul Olympics that athletes staying in the Olympic Village be provided with condoms.
The Tokyo Olympics is scheduled to start on July 23 with no spectators from overseas at its venues due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
There has also been a growing clamor among the Japanese to cancel the event due to a spike in Covid-19 cases in several cities,
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