Gifts are distributed for particular reasons at both the times either election time or biggest games event. The first is a five-year voting exercise while another is a four-year festival of games If the political parties provide gifts to the people, in general, it is deemed generosity of the political leaders and if something special is distributed during the biggest sporting events, it is propagated as promising for health care.
Recently concluded Tokyo Olympics categorically cautioned the athletes to“avoid unnecessary forms of physical contact” so the organisers in line with the games’ tradition compulsively distributed among them about 1,60,000 condoms at its village to raise insight about safer sex. Formerly, in Rio 2016, an enormous 450,000 condoms were sanctioned for the athletes’ Village. The London Olympics were called the ‘raunchiest Games’, however, just 150,000 prophylactics were distributed among the participants.
The first reports stem to Seoul in 1988 when 8,500 condoms were distributed. Many were found on the roofs of the Village residences leading to an official Olympic ban on outdoor sex. Since Seoul Olympics, the practice to hand out the pouch of condoms began and the COVID-19 rules stood in Tokyo.
For organisers, it remained a little tricky to circulate the pouches. Why had organisers cared more for the bed-hopping than deciding to stop its absolute dispersal? Recycled cardboard single beds were set up to stop people from having sex to prevent the virus spread.
Much-celebrated Japanese mountaineer, Ken Noguchi, was perplexed at the distribution of prophylactics and even logic with the pouch owners to keep them under closed wraps stunned him. He was overheard saying it was verily “something I just can’t comprehend”. The degree of fondness shown towards the condom distribution was just for emptying the pile-up. The athletes were supposed to have been made either scapegoats for compensating the loss of the manufacturing company or the accelerating controversy around the players to support parallelism in the games as just another instance of the Olympics culture, as reported.
It was also contended by ex-52-year-old German athlete Susan Tiedtke in the Olympics that it would be impossible to impose a sex ban in the Village. She stated, “[The ban] is a big laughing stock for me, it doesn’t work at all.