At present, the Beijing Winter Olympics has entered the fifth competition day, just yesterday 18-year-old Gu Ailing won the Winter Olympics freestyle ski jumping gold medal, which is the third gold medal of the Chinese team at the Beijing Winter Olympics, and the first gold medal of the Chinese women's snow sports in the Winter Olympics.
In the case of epidemic prevention and control is still tense, it is not easy to hold the Olympic Games, while paying attention to the safety of epidemic prevention, the physiological safety of athletes has also received attention, and condoms were once again distributed to all athletes at the Beijing Winter Olympics. Many people may be a little confused by this, why are condoms distributed at the Olympic Games? Who are these condoms used for?
Distributing condoms is a "tradition" of the Olympics
In 1988, for the first time, 8,500 condoms were distributed free of charge to athletes at the Olympic Village at the Seoul (now known as Seoul) Olympic Games in order to prevent the spread of AIDS and encourage safe sex. Since then, this has become the international practice of every Olympic Games, and the organizers of the Olympic Games will issue condoms for every Olympic event held. How many condoms are issued and used at each Olympic Games has also become a concern.
The first large-scale distribution of condoms was at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, when the organizers provided 50,000. Since then, the number of condoms at the Olympics has gradually increased, and since the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, the number of condoms issued has not been lower than 100,000. In 2000, 90,000 Olympic games were issued at the Sydney Olympic Games, 120,000 at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, and 100,000 Olympic commemorative condoms were distributed at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. By the 2016 Rio Olympics, 450,000 condoms had been distributed.
Why are condoms distributed at the Olympic Games?
In people's eyes, condoms are always associated with words such as "fun" and "experience", but it has an important mission on its shoulders. The most valuable function of condoms has never been just contraception, but more importantly, it is the only contraceptive that can significantly reduce the risk of almost all sexually transmitted diseases, especially AIDS.
In 1981, a Canadian athlete was diagnosed with AIDS, which is also the number zero patient in the global AIDS response, and he is said to have used his position to have close contact with 2,500 people, and of the 19 people who died of AIDS in the first place, 8 of them were his partners, and AIDS has broken out globally.
In the decade that followed, the number of AIDS patients grew rapidly. Later, condoms were discovered to be effective in interrupting the spread of AIDS. In the fierce Olympic arena, many athletes need to release pressure through sex, according to relevant data, 70%-75% of athletes will have sex during the Olympic Games to release stress. Therefore, in order to prevent the rapid spread of AIDS and to ensure the health of every athlete, condoms will be distributed free of charge at every Olympic Games.
Moreover, the distribution of condoms is not only an effective guarantee for the safety of athletes' lives, but also a manifestation of human nature, which is also a correct way of sex education. At the Moscow Olympics many years ago, the concept of contraception was not widespread, resulting in many Olympic babies after the Olympic Games. Therefore, whether from a biological point of view or from a sociological point of view, it is necessary to distribute condoms for free at the Olympic games.