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This is why every athlete is getting 42 condoms at Rio 2016

What happens in the Olympic village stays in the village but here is why every athlete at the Rio Olympic Games is getting 42 condoms.

The Rio 2016 Olympic Games has started and you have probably heard about the Rio Village, the home of athletes in Brazil.

The Rio village is located in Barra da Tijacu, next to the Olympic Park in south western Rio. The village has 31 high-rise buildings with 3604 apartments.

Each of the apartments has two, three or four beds with equipped anti-mosquito electronic devices for the fear of malaria and the Zika virus.

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The beds in the rooms are two metres in length but can be extended a further 30cm for very tall athletes.

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The rooms have no television due to budget constrains but screens are placed at vantage points and communal areas.

The Rio Olympic Village has its own medical centers, banks, post office, shopping malls and beauty salons.

There is also a multi-faith worship centre for different religions in the world.

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Simply put, the Rio Village is a community on its own with many people from different parts of the world. So definitely, there will be sex. Lots and lots of sex. Considering the sizes of the beds in the rooms at the Olympic village, it is similar to a public university in Ghana.

US women’s soccer goalkeeper Hope Solo, a gold medalist in 2008 tells in an ESPN story by Sam Alipour:

“There's a lot of sex going on [in the village].”

How much sex?

“I'd say it's 70 percent to 75 percent of Olympians. Hey, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do," reveals swimmer Ryan Lochte.

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So you see? Lots and lots of sex.

With sex comes responsibilities and a who different world of STIs. Not only are the International Olympics Committee protecting the athletes from Zika virus with anti-mosquito electronic devices, they are also making sure the Rio Village is not turned to an infectious calamity because they can't tell these athletes ‘don’t fornicate’.

The International Olympics Committee has provided 450, 000 condoms to the athletes at the Olympic Games. With over 10,500 athletes participating at the Rio Games, each athlete will get 42 condoms.

That is 2.625 condoms per athlete per day considering the Olympic Games run from August 5 to August 21. Then again, how do you even use 0.625 condoms?

That’s not the point though.

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Summer Sanders, a swimmer who won two gold medals, a silver and a bronze in Barcelona, calls the second Olympic motto: "What happens in the village stays in the village."

But the point is, organizers of the Olympic Games know what happens in the village and are willing to prevent any bad post-Olympic reactions.

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The ESPN story by Sam Alipour states:

“Home to more than 10,000 athletes at the Summer Games and 2,700 at the Winter, the Olympic Village is one of the world's most exclusive clubs. To join, prospective members need only have spectacular talent and -- we long assumed -- a chaste devotion to the most intense competition of their lives. But the image of a celibate Games began to flicker in '92 when it was reported that the Games' organizers had ordered in prophylactics like pizza. Then, at the 2000 Sydney Games, 70,000 condoms wasn't enough, prompting a second order of 20,000 and a new standing order of 100,000 condoms per Olympics.”

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These athletes are not going to stop the sex now. Never. The world now understands why you are all getting more than two condoms a day each, but for the sake of your sorry roommates and the Zika epidemic, please let the sex in the village have some discretion.

A gold medal on the field will be more appreciated by your respective nations supporting you through and through than an unplanned interracial baby story for the tabloids.

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