BEIJING (Reuters) – Beijing Olympics organisers are maintaining with the custom of creating condoms available to athletes, regardless of detailed social distancing pointers supposed to curb the unfold of COVID-19 inside the “closed loop” through which the Games will happen.
“All Olympic-related models will present acceptable portions of condoms totally free on the acceptable time to individuals who’ve checked in to remain contained in the loop,” organisers informed Reuters by e-mail on Tuesday.
The Games are set to happen from Feb. 4-20 in Beijing and the close by metropolis of Zhangjiakou inside a bubble that strictly separates athletes and different Games personnel from the general public.
Journalists who checked into the Guizhou Hotel, which is contained in the closed loop, discovered 5 individually wrapped condoms in every room. They had been individually packed in different-coloured envelopes adorned with a picture of a Chinese lantern.
Organisers didn’t instantly say what number of condoms they’d distribute.
In the playbook on COVID-19 measures for Games personnel, athletes are instructed to minimise bodily interactions corresponding to hugs, high-fives and handshakes and to take care of a social distance of no less than two metres from fellow opponents.
Ahead of final Summer’s Tokyo Games, organisers mentioned they deliberate to present away about 150,000 condoms but informed athletes to take them residence fairly than use them within the Olympic village attributable to social distancing guidelines and coronavirus measures.
Large numbers of condoms have been given out on the Games for the reason that 1988 Seoul Olympics to boost consciousness of HIV and AIDS, and Tokyo organisers mentioned the International Olympic Committee had requested their continued distribution.
(Reporting by Yew Lun Tian, Editing by Tony Munroe and Ed Osmond)
