Sunday, February 15 2026 - The Winter Olympic Village in Italy has reportedly run out of condoms just three days after the start of the Games, after Athletes use up 10,000 protection.
“The supplies ran out in just three days,” an anonymous
athlete told the Italian newspaper, La Stampa. “They promised us more will
arrive, but who knows when.”
Organizers typically distribute thousands of free condoms to
athletes staying in the Olympic Village as part of a long-standing public
health initiative aimed at promoting safe sex during the Games. However, this
year’s supply was quickly depleted within 72 hours, according to reports
circulating from inside the Village.
The anonymous athlete blamed the Olympic organizers,
saying they had not been “particularly generous with the numbers”. “In Paris
the athletes received 300,000 condoms – two per day each – but the numbers for
these Winter Games were significantly lower: not even 10,000,” La Stampa’s
report states.
Last week the governor of the Lombardy region, Attilio
Fontana, insisted the topic should not be a cause of embarrassment. “Yes, we
provide free condoms to athletes in the Olympic village,” he said in a social
media post. “If this seems strange to some, they’re unaware of the established
Olympic practice. It began in Seoul 1988 to raise awareness among athletes and
young people about sexually transmitted disease prevention— a topic that
shouldn’t cause embarrassment.”
Fontana also shared an Instagram post by the Spanish figure
skater Olivia Smart, in which she showed her followers condoms stamped with the
yellow Lombardy Region logo. “I found them,” she says in the clip, which has
gone viral. “They have everything you need.”
This year’s Winter Olympics has around 2,900 athletes from
92 different national committees participating in 116 different events across
16 disciplines. These 2026 games do have the highest percentage of female
athletes (47%) in Winter Games histor
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