Overview
- Free condoms at the Cortina d'Ampezzo athletes' village were depleted within three days early in the Games, according to the initial La Stampa report.
- IOC spokesperson Mark Adams confirmed 10,000 condoms have already been taken by roughly 2,800 athletes staying at the Winter Olympics villages.
- The Milano‑Cortina organizing committee says additional shipments are being arranged, but it has not specified when new supplies will arrive.
- This year’s allocation was far smaller than recent Summer Games, with reports citing about 300,000 condoms at Paris 2024 and about 450,000 at Rio 2016.
- Lombardy governor Attilio Fontana defended the distribution as a long‑standing public‑health practice dating to the 1988 Seoul Olympics.