London 2012 are investigating how a bucket of unofficial condoms found its way into the athletes’ village without official consent.
The Australian BMX cyclist Caroline Buchanan tweeted a photograph of the bucket, which featured a sign reading “Kangaroos condoms, for the gland downunder”, and a picture of a boxing kangaroo.
She joked that bucket seemed to back up rumours that the village becomes a hot bed of activity as thousands of competitors complete their events and celebrate after years of working to get to the Olympics – tweeting: “Haha, the rumours are true. Olympic village.”
Barcelona started the trend of supplying free condoms to athletes when the Spanish city held the Olympics in 1992, with the International Olympic Committee endorsing the move.
The London Olympic organisers provided 150,000 free condoms in dispensers for the 10,800 athletes at the Games, supplied by Durex which paid for the supply rights.
A Locog spokeswoman said they were trying to find out who distributed the Kangaroo condoms, with the container shown to hold condoms from Durex’s rivals Ansell Ltd, an Australian company, and Pasante, a private British firm.
She said athletes and officials were allowed to bring products into the village for their personal use.
“We will look into this and ask that they are not handed out to other athletes because Durex are our supplier,” said the spokeswoman.
Boobie the Rocket Dog
August 8th, 2012
Well, DUHHH!
Official Five-Coloured-Olympic-Ring-branded condoms are going to be hot items on Ebay for the next month. Who’d want to buy (or let go of) a soiled one?
Kangaroo Condoms are for USE.
Official Olympic condoms are for SALE.
No wonder the English lost their empire.
RANDO
August 8th, 2012
150000 Official condoms. Buckets of unofficial condoms. 10800 athletes. Wait a second, I’m still doing the math…
Corona
August 8th, 2012
Athletes are nothing but a bunch of horndogs.
Now go get your fuckin’ shinebox!
DanlBoone
August 8th, 2012
Is that furniture Corinthian leather?
they’re just being traditional after all..
Ancient Olympics Had “Spectacular” Opening Ceremony, Pagan Partying
Greek games rife with prostitution, sacrifices, doping—and legendary athleticism. Nat’l Geographic
Anonymous
August 8th, 2012
It’s heartening to know that after years of doping, your gonads may still function.
muddjuice
August 8th, 2012
Years and years of commitment, responsibility and discipline so you can compete in the Olympics.
Here’s some condoms, go be uncommitted, irresponsible and undisciplined.
Wonderful message. Idiots.
Honest Politicians 4 Sale
August 8th, 2012
Did they bring in bus loads of official Olympic prostitutes too? 13.9 condoms each? That’s a whole lot of screwing going on. If you can’t find a partner use a wooden chair?
reddecaesari
August 8th, 2012
another circling of the drain.
DanlBoone
August 8th, 2012
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it would have precedence. this might be interesting:
Honest Politicians 4 Sale
August 8th, 2012
@DanlBoone
Back then they had to do it without rubbers or penicillin. They all had something to “clap” about.
Stranded in Sonoma
August 8th, 2012
What? Only Trojans are allowed?
BWAHAhahahahahahaha!
Al muddjuice Sharpton
August 8th, 2012
@ Boone
Never heard that. Those Nazis sure were foreward thinkers eh?
DanlBoone
August 8th, 2012
hello HP4S,
yeah, it’s kinda interesting because prostitution has been one central issue with the games since the ancients at Crete.
when sports people decry the true spirit of the games–which was purposely emphasized at the Sfakia-Crete games–2004..
they are talking about that religious posturing of the ancient games. The true spirit of sport, as they, eg, Pierre de Coubertin and his Relation to the Catholic Church and his religous “Olympism”
the games were largely religious/political ritual, ie, “warring without war”, and–
the athletes were the super-stars of their time–much like now. Their wealthy patrons supplied them with male/female prostitutes as well as better medical care, like:
Olympic Dark Victors Ointment an ancient trans-dermal Rx delivery system for opium, cannabis, and sassafras alkalaloids–the later compounds in probably less than metabolic doses–but hey–when yer hurtin’ what the heck.. the opium absorbed well.
lotta wine too
lotsa lotsa wine
anyhow, I’m just going on about that, because it’s true.. and to say that, this</b is the basically the nature of the games–it hasn’t changed. All the noble rhetoric and posturing in the world doesn’t change that..
; – )
DanlBoone
August 8th, 2012
you got that right muddjuice. Personally, I would really like to be able to enjoy the games–and I do just a tad..
but–
it’s so heavily influenced along the lines we’re talking about that– well, you know
look how Islam is interjecting itself.
anyhow, thanks for speaking.
;- )
Honest Politicians 4 Sale
August 8th, 2012
Why don’t they just combine the sexual activities of the competitors with the sporting events and have a sexual intercourse competition? They could easily stoop that low now that they have submitted to the muslims. Of course they would have to include goats in the competition for our islamic friends.
Honest Politicians 4 Sale
August 8th, 2012
@DanlBoone
August 8th, 2012
I am not a big fan of the Olympics, especially now that they have submitted to islam.
Thanks for the info just the same.
muddjuice
August 8th, 2012
So… the Nazis were actually backward thinkers then? Okay.
Regardless of why they started this stuff, a civilized society should not be encouraging this. That’s why Rome is no longer a superpower…
DanlBoone
August 8th, 2012
perso
Hitler capitalized on the religion of Greece’s Pantheon at the ’36 games; the which, had been growing in scope since Pierre de Courbetin began to reinvigorate the Olympics in 1896.
It comported seamlessly with Nietzsche’s uberman and Hitler’s Arianism…
fast forward: Germany, Islamic slaughter of Israelis ’72.
slam dunk, from an ideological perspective. Recall that the Olympics had lain dormant for something like ~ 16 centuries..
and were revived in an unequivocally religious posture that emulates the worship of the athletes, like as unto ‘gods’ of their age.
This hasn’t changed. The ’04 games at Safkia-Crete are a clear example of the religious nature of the Olympics.
which is what alienates me personally from being able to enjoy it much.
the prostitution, doping and so-on are all just incidental to the deeper ideology, but interesting history, I think.
as an aside, neither Hitler, nor jihadists were the first to hijack the games–that was Nero. He made himself a hero of the chariots–regardless of who need be sacrificed in the matter
I’m just going on about this because I studied on it some, and that’s part of what I came away with.
DanlBoone
August 8th, 2012
maybe I’m just crazy, but, that ubiquitous branding lately, eg: “HOPE”.. is central to modern Olympic philosophy, and particularly with regard to Courbetin’s vision</b..
His vision ran contrary to his former school of thought–Roman Catholicism.