Youth Olympic Games, parent group protests over condom provision

Parents' groups are protesting the 2024 Gangwon Winter Youth Olympic Organizing Committee's decision to provide condoms to participating athletes.
On the 23rd, the National Federation of Parents' Organizations issued a statement saying, ``The Youth Olympic Games should be a place to develop healthy bodies and healthy minds, and distributing condoms is the best way to do so.''
"This is an act that undermines the Olympic spirit." At the same time, ``The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is distributing condoms to young people and giving them harsh warnings that they are ``curious teenagers.''
``It is wrong to translate this into words,'' and ``If this kind of thing happens again, the Youth Olympics should be abolished.''
The 2024 Gangwon Winter Youth Olympic Games, which opened on the 19th of this month, will feature 78 national Olympic Games from around the world.
A total of 1,802 athletes between the ages of 14 and 18 are participating in the National Olympic Committee (NOC). The organizing committee's medical team secured 3,000 condoms and distributed 2,500 condoms to the Gangneung Wonju University Athletes Village.
500 pieces were distributed and placed at the Olympic Village in Jeongseon. The IOC said, ``Young athletes, who have a lot of sexual energy and curiosity, should live in condominiums because they believe they must have a safe sex life just like adult athletes.''
The position is to hand out a program. The organizing committees of the 2018 Buenos Aires Summer Youth Olympic Games and the 2020 Lausanne Winter Youth Olympic Games also provided free condoms to the Olympic Village.
provided. At the time of the 1988 Seoul Olympics, South Korea provided 8,500 condoms to the Olympic Village to prevent the spread of AIDS when an AIDS patient broke out in the country.
They handed out condoms at the Olympic Village.