Olympic athletes at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Games can say they broke at least one record, though it may not be one most people would expect.
In record-breaking time, the condom supply in the Olympic Village for competitors in this year’s Milan Cortina Games ran out within three days, according to Italian newspaper La Stampa.
Condoms have long been provided to Olympic athletes, starting at the 1988 Seoul Games in an effort to raise awareness about sexually transmitted diseases amid the aids epidemic.
The shortage surfacing on Friday is apt timing as International Condom Day falls on February 13 every year, the day before Valentine’s Day.
“Hot people use condoms,” The Illinois Department of Public Health said in a post on social media Friday in honor of the holiday.
The number of condoms given out in the Olympic Village has dwindled significantly over the years, something that could explain the historic shortage.
In the 2016 Rio Olympics, athletes were supplied with 450,000 condoms. Eight years later, the condom supply reduced to 300,000 at the Paris Olympics in 2024.
The Milan Cortina condom supply is a fraction of past years: only 10,000 were distributed.
Though the 3,000 athletes competing at the Milan Cortina Games is a much smaller pool compared to 14,000 at the Paris Olympics, the supply was no match for the demand.
“The supplies ran out in just three days,” a competitor who asked to remain anonymous told the newspaper. “They promised us more will arrive, but who knows when.”
Olympic figure skater and host of the NBC podcast “My New Favorite Olympian,” Adam Rippon revealed an unexpected reason the shortage may have started.
During the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics, Rippon said he brought condoms home from the Games to give to his friends as souvenirs.
“If you were wondering where 3,000 of the condoms went from the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang, I took them,” Rippon said.
Rippon said he was expecting a “lavish sort of experience” before he encountered the notorious condoms of the Olympic Village for the first time but instead found them in the medical tent.
“It was just like a basket filled with condoms that said — in Korean — ‘generic condom’,” he said. “No Olympic rings, no fanfare, no frills.”
He emptied the whole basket into his backpack, he said.
Rippon said he thinks the “real shenanigans” happens during the Summer Olympics because the athletes are “basically naked and it’s warm outside.”
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