Olympiad

It was impossible to know what went on in the Olympic Villages, in Vancouver and Whistler. The athletes talked about Ping-Pong and TV…By the middle of the second week, there were news reports that the authorities were trucking in an emergency supply of condoms; they had provided a hundred thousand of them, for roughly seven thousand athletes and officials. But apparently that wasn’t enough.


--from “The Ski Gods,” by Nick Paumgarten, in the March 15th New Yorker

 
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