2026年2月14日 / 美国东部时间下午1:38 / 美联社
在米兰科尔蒂纳奥运会的情人节当天，组委会在本周避孕套供应短缺后承诺为运动员村补充免费避孕套。
意大利组委会周六在一份声明中表示：”我们可以确认，奥运村的避孕套供应因需求高于预期而暂时耗尽。额外的物资正在运送中，将于今日至周一期间分发到所有村庄。”
为运动员提供避孕套一直是组委会的一项举措——几十年来，这一直是全世界关注的焦点。
2024年巴黎夏季奥运会为超过10,500名运动员提供了30万只避孕套，而本届冬奥会的原始库存要少得多。
国际奥委会发言人马克·亚当斯周六表示：”我认为已经使用了10,000只，有2,800名运动员——你可以自己算一下，正如他们所说。这清楚地表明，情人节在奥运村全面展开。”
在奥运会第一周出现避孕套告罄的报道之前，奥运初期吉祥物米洛和蒂娜的毛绒玩具也一度缺货。这些玩具在官方奥运商品店的受欢迎程度超出了预期。
高山滑雪运动员米阿利蒂亚娜·克莱尔周六表示，避孕套传统上很受奥运选手欢迎，他们会将其作为”一种礼物”带回家送给朋友。
她还回忆道：”我并不感到震惊，我在北京奥运会上就见过这种情况。我们在村里住的每栋楼入口处都有一些装着大量避孕套的盒子。”
“每天，所有东西都（被拿光了），”她在国际奥委会周六的新闻发布会上回忆起北京奥运会的情况，当时该发布会是为了宣传帮助数百名运动员训练和获得奥运资格的奖学金项目。
克莱尔说：”我已经知道很多人会使用一些避孕套，或者只是把它们带出去送给奥运之外的朋友，因为这对他们来说是一种礼物。”
在2月22日冬奥会闭幕式之前，意大利不会再有进一步的供应短缺。
当地组委会表示：”在奥运会结束前，避孕套将持续补充，以确保持续供应。”
Olympic villages ran out of free condoms. Organizers promise a Valentine’s weekend restock.
February 14, 2026 / 1:38 PM EST / AP
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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