Condom shortage during recent Olympics

What happens when you gather the best male and female athletes from around the world to compete in sports? Apparently tons of fun! Thanks to the foresight and thoughtfulness of event organizers it’s safe fun.

For some reason a Catholic site covered this story with their own special slant which almost, but doesn’t quite, use the word “debauchery.”

Widespread revelry in the streets in addition to wild parties has left Vancouver in dire need of prophylactics. Image from catholic.org

More condoms shipped to Olympics
By Greg Goodsell  |  3/1/2010  |  Catholic Online
An emergency shipment of condoms was shipped to Vancouver in order to better serve a city in the throes of Olympic fervor.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) – Widespread revelry in the streets in addition to wild parties has left this western Canadian city in dire need of prophylactics.

Health officials in Vancouver have provided 100,000 free condoms to the roughly 7,000 athletes and officials at the Games, about 14 condoms per person. In the middle of last week, those supplies were running dangerously low. The Canadian Foundation for AIDS research rose to the occasion to make sure no one went without.

Three large boxes of about 8,500 condoms each were flown to the Olympic Village

Free condoms were first distributed at the athletic event at the Barcelona 1992 Games, and this appears to be the first time that a shortage has struck the Games.

According to a health Web site, lambskin condoms, or natural condoms do not protect the user from sexually transmitted diseases. The pores are seen as being too large to protect against the small particles that causes some STDs. In addition, latex condoms protect against only certain types of STDs