On Valentine's Day at the Milan Cortina Olympics, a renewed supply of free condoms for the athlete villages was promised by the organizers after going short during the week.
"We can confirm that condom supplies in the Olympic Villages were temporarily depleted due to higher-than-anticipated demand," the Italian organizing committee said in a statement Saturday. "Additional supplies are being delivered and will be distributed across all villages between today and Monday."
Providing condoms for athletes has been a gift from organizers and a constant fascination to the world for decades.
While 300,000 condoms were provided for more than 10,500 athletes at the 2024 Paris Summer Games , the original stock was much lower for these Winter Games.
"I think 10,000 have been used, 2,800 athletes you can go figure, as they say," International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams said Saturday. "It clearly shows that Valentine's Day is in full swing in the village."
Reports of no condoms in week one of the games followed an absence of plush toys of the official mascots , Milo and Tina, in the opening days. They proved more popular than expected in the official Olympics merchandise stores.
Condoms are traditionally popular for Olympic athletes to take home as "a kind of gift" to friends, Alpine skier Mialitiana Clerc said Saturday.
"I'm not so shocked. I saw it in Beijing already," said Clerc, who also competed for Madagascar four years ago at the Winter Games in China. "There were some boxes with a lot of condoms at the entrance of every building where we were staying at the village."
"Every day, everything was (gone)," she recalled about Beijing at an IOC news conference Saturday to promote its scholarship program that helps hundreds of athletes to train and qualify for the Olympics.
"I already know that a lot of people are using some condoms or just taking them to give to their friends outside of the Olympics because it's a kind of gift for them," Clerc said.
There should be no further shortage in Italy until the Winter Games closing ceremony on Feb. 22.
"They will be continuously replenished until the end of the games to ensure continued availability," the local organizing committee said.
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米兰-科尔蒂纳冬奥会组委会承诺，在情人节当天将重新为奥运村供应免费避孕套，此前一周曾出现短缺情况。
意大利奥组委周六在一份声明中表示：“我们可以确认，由于需求量超出预期，奥运村的避孕套供应暂时告罄。目前正在补充货源，所有物资将于今日至周一期间配送到各奥运村。”
数十年来，为运动员提供安全套一直是赛事组织者的一项传统福利，同时也持续引发全球范围的广泛关注。
尽管2024年巴黎夏季奥运会为10,500余名运动员提供了30万只安全套，但本届冬奥会的初始储备量却远低于此。
国际奥委会发言人马克·亚当斯周六表示：“据我所知，已经使用了1万份，2800名运动员——用他们的话说，你可以想象。这显然表明情人节在奥运村里正热闹非凡。”
赛事首周出现避孕套短缺的报道，此前开幕期间官方吉祥物米洛和蒂娜的毛绒玩具也曾一度断货。这些商品在奥运官方特许商店中的受欢迎程度远超预期。
高山滑雪运动员米娅丽蒂安娜·克莱尔周六表示，奥运会运动员们历来喜欢将安全套作为"一种礼物"带回家送给朋友。
“我并不感到特别惊讶，在北京时就已经见过这种场景了，”四年前曾代表马达加斯加参加中国冬奥会的克莱尔克说道，“当时在奥运村我们居住的每栋楼入口处，都摆放着装有大量安全套的盒子。”
“那时北京每天都在发生变化。”她在周六的国际奥委会新闻发布会上回忆道。此次发布会旨在推广一项奖学金计划，该计划帮助数百名运动员进行训练并获得奥运会参赛资格。
克莱尔表示：“我了解到，很多人都在使用安全套，或者把它们带出奥运会送给朋友，因为对他们来说这是一种礼物。”
至少在2月22日冬奥会闭幕式之前，意大利应该不会再出现物资短缺的情况。
当地组委会表示，这些物资将持续补充直至赛事结束，以确保供应不间断。
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