Safe sex promoted at 2008 Olympics

This is a great story from the USAToday Blogs...

There are a lot of things athletes may run out of at the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing but condoms will not be one of them.

Organizers have supplied 100,000 for the 10,500 athletes housed in the village. Organizers have handed out condoms at every Olympics since 1992 in Barcelona to raise awareness of AIDS prevention.

At Sydney, the 70,000 condoms supplied, ran out and officials ordered an additional 20,000 more.

"There are many young, strong, single people in the athletes' village and, like everywhere, some will fall in love or other things, so we need to make condoms available," Ole Hansen, spokesman for UNAIDS China, told Reuters. "A lot of these young people are not married or in relationships so we want to make sure they have the information and tools to protect themselves if they have sexual encounters."

So not to offend any athlete, the condoms are not put in rooms but are available at medical sights and at the athlete's center.

Elasun, a condom maker in China, has been running funny ads showing Olympic stickman performing alongside condoms shaped like bicycles, basketball hoop and net and an archery target.

From USA Today Blog by Reid Cherner http://blogs.usatoday.com/gameon/2008/08/citius-altius-f.html