Vancouver 2010: Sex Between Olympic Athletes
VANCOUVER — Local health officials will provide up to 100,000 free condoms to athletes and officials housed in the Vancouver and Whistler athletes villages during the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The program isnt a comment on the level of testosterone displayed in the villages by young athletes, but an attempt to reinforce the message of controlling sexually transmitted diseases, Dr. Reka Gustafson, medical health officer for Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, said this week.
UNAIDS and the [International Olympic Committee] have teamed up for some years now to have an HIV/AIDS awareness program at the Olympics, she said. It is a really good opportunity to use the profile of the Olympics to put positive health promotion messages out there and as part of that condoms are also distributed.
Condoms have been available to athletes free of charge since at least the 1992 Summer Games in Barcelona. The program has been met with success — and a measure of mirth — at some Olympics. At the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney, the initial supply of 70,000 quickly ran out and organizers had to order 20,000 more. For the next Summer Olympics in Athens, officials brought in 130,000 for the 10, 500 athletes — for an average of more than 12 for every athlete.
Health officials at the 2006 Winter Games in Turin did not provide condoms at the polyclinics, but instead gave packages to each countrys team physicians. There were definitely no condoms in the washrooms in Turin or in common places, Gustafson said.
For the Beijing Games, organizers ordered a supply of 100,000 — complete with the Olympic motto faster, higher, stronger — but were left with at least 5,000 unused ones after the event. A sports collector bought the lot and put them up for auction.
At the Vancouver Games, condoms are being provided by the B.C. Centre for Disease Control and will be available at two village polyclinics staffed by doctors and nurses under the direction of the health authority. Officials have ordered 50,000 to 100,000 condoms, which works out at the upper end to 14.6 condoms for each of the 6, 850 athletes and officials expected to attend the Olympics and Paralympics.
Gustafson, who is also the health authoritys medical director of communicable disease control, said she personally wanted to have condoms included in the information packages that each athlete receives from the Vancouver Organizing Committee. She was overruled.
We wanted to put them into the athletes packages, but at the end of the day the parameters are set by the IOC and the IOC requested that we dont. It is not a decision we make, she said. So they will be available in the polyclinics.
Athletes will receive notices in their packages telling them that condoms are available if they wish.
We distribute it wherever we can and we want to make sure athletes know they can access it and that they should access it, Gustafson said.
Any unused condoms will be returned post-Games to the health authoritys central medical supply, where they will be used in free condom programs at other health clinics.
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