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(Reuters) --
Organizers of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics uphold a tradition of making condoms available to athletes, despite detailed distancing guidelines aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19 within the "closed circuit". " in which the Games will take place.
"All units related to the Olympic Games will provide adequate amounts of condoms free of charge in a timely manner to people who have registered to stay inside the circuit," organizers told Reuters by email on Tuesday.
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The Games will be held from February 4 to 20 in Beijing and the nearby city of Zhangjiakou within a bubble that strictly separates athletes and other Games personnel from the public.
Journalists checking into the Guizhou Hotel, which is inside the closed bubble, found five individually wrapped condoms in each room.
They were packaged in different colored envelopes decorated with the image of a Chinese lantern.
Organizers did not immediately say how many condoms will be distributed during the Games.
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A security guard guards the perimeter of the closed-circuit "bubble" near the Main Media Center of the Winter Olympics in Beijing on January 25, 2022.
In the COVID-19 prevention manual for Games personnel, athletes are instructed to minimize physical interactions, such as hugs, high-fives, and handshakes, and to keep a distance of at least two meters from their peers.
Ahead of last summer's Tokyo Games, organizers said they planned to give away some 150,000 condoms but told athletes to take them home rather than use them in the Olympic village due to distancing rules and anti-virus measures. the coronavirus.
Large numbers of condoms have been distributed since the 1988 Seoul Olympics to raise awareness of HIV and AIDS, and organizers in Tokyo said the International Olympic Committee had requested that they continue to be distributed.
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