Canadian and Spanish ice dancer Olivia Smart is doing important work in the 2026 Winter Olympics — that fans and fellow athletes know where to find free condoms.
“So for anyone wondering about Olympic condoms, I found them,” Smart, a two-time Winter Olympian, shared via a video uploaded to TikTok on Friday, February 6. “You can find them in the space where the air beds are and you can rent appliances – I rented a hair dryer because mine blew up.”
Smart continued, “Hey, you can get tampons. They have everything, everything you need, in the Olympic Village.”
In the video, the ice dancer could be seen shopping around the Olympic Village in Milan, Italy, when she happened upon two plastic bins of Milan Winter Olympics-branded condoms. (From the looks of the video, the containers have been sufficiently attacked.)
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“Yes, there are OLYMPIC condoms,” Smart captioned the video.
Olympic-brand condoms were all the rage in Paris during the 2025 Summer Olympics. Laurent Dalardthe person who coordinated the first aid and health services for the 2024 Summer Games, he told Olympics.com that the organization “provided enough prophylactics to cover 10,500 athletes staying in the Olympic Village and for those staying further afield.”
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According to Dalard, more than 200,000 male condoms, 20,000 female condoms and 10,000 oral plugs were made available to athletes during the 2024 Paris games, adding that “safe sex is paramount in a notoriously feverish environment, similar to university students, but sweatier.”
Athletes were also subjected to the so-called “anti-sex” beds. at both the 2020 Tokyo and 2024 Paris Olympics, although many athletes debunked the myth that the cardboard beds were created specifically to deter athletes from getting busy between the sheets.
“In today’s episode of fake news from the Olympics, the beds are meant to be anti-sex,” the gymnast said. Rhys McClenaghan he said in a then-viral video in 2020 while appearing at the Tokyo Olympics. “They’re made of cardboard, yes, and apparently they’re meant to break with any sudden movement… But they’re fake, fake news!”
To demonstrate the durability of cardboard beds (according to Forbesthe beds can support 440 lbs (and were created as part of a recycling initiative that existed before the start of the Covid-19 pandemic) McClenaghan jumped up and down in bed.
McClenaghan tested the “anti-sex” beds again at the 2024 Paris Olympics, reminding fans that despite the material the beds are durable.
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“I’m at the Paris Olympics once again, they have these cardboard anti-sex beds,” she said in another video shared at the time. “When I tested them last time, they withstood my tests. Maybe I wasn’t rigorous enough.”
McClenaghan jumped up and down on another cardboard bed to show his durability.
“No, the test has passed,” he concluded. “It’s fake, fake news.”
Olympic diver Tom Daley and Team USA rugby sevens player Ilona Maher also tested their cardboard beds at the 2024 Paris Olympics, some even enlisting the help of their peers to demonstrate the robust cardboard bed frames.
“(The beds) will be recycled into paper products after the Games, and the mattress components will be recycled into new plastic products,” a press release said. In The Games. “This will be the first time in Olympic and Paralympic history that all beds and bedding are made almost entirely from renewable materials.”