袋鼠避孕套闖入奧運村 倫敦奧組委緊急調查

London Olympic organizers are investigating how a bucket of Australian-tagged condoms found its way into the athletes' village without official consent.

Australian BMX cyclist Caroline Buchanan tweeted a photograph from the athletes' village of a container of condoms with a placard reading "Kangaroos condoms " with the picture of a boxing kangaroo.

She joked that the container seemed to back up rumors that the athletes' village becomes a hot bed of activity as thousands of competitors complete their events and celebrate after years of working to get to the Olympics.

"Haha, the rumors are true. Olympic village," tweeted Buchanan, whose BMX contest starts on Wednesday.

Barcelona started the trend of supplying free condoms to athletes when the Spanish city held the Olympics in 1992, with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) endorsing the move to help AIDS awareness and prevention. The handouts came with health information.

The London Olympic organizers, LOCOG, have provided 150,000 free condoms in dispensers for the 10,800 athletes at the Games. They are supplied by Durex, part of British consumer goods group Reckitt Benckiser, which paid for the supply rights.

A LOCOG spokeswoman said they were trying to find out who distributed the so-called Kangaroo condoms, with the container shown to hold condoms from Durex rivals Ansell Ltd, an Australian company and Pasante, a private British company.

She said athletes and officials were allowed to bring products into the village for their personal use.

"We will look into this and ask that they are not handed out to other athletes because Durex are our supplier," said the spokeswoman.

Organizers tightly control which brands can be promoted at the Games, striking sponsorship deals with a limited number of companies and trying to stop non-sponsors from getting free publicity on the back of the Olympics.

Lawrence Boon, managing director of Pasante, said his company had no involvement with the distribution of condoms in the athletes' village and he suspected it was a prank by the Australian team.

The number of condoms supplied at London tops the 100,000 made available to athletes in Beijing four years ago.倫敦奧組委正在調查，澳大利亞生產的一批避孕套是如何未經官方許可就被帶進了奧運村。

澳大利亞自行車越野賽選手卡洛琳-布坎南在奧運村裏用推特發佈了一張照片，照片上是一桶避孕套，上面還有一張拳擊袋鼠的照片，寫道：“袋鼠避孕套”。

布坎南開玩笑說，這個盒子似乎證實了運動員村已經成爲性派對的溫牀這一傳言，成千上萬的運動員結束了比賽，在數年辛苦的奧運訓練後開始狂歡。

“哈哈，謠言是真的，奧運村。”布坎南在推特上說。她參加的自行車越野賽從週三開始。

1992年西班牙巴塞羅那奧運會開創了給運動員免費提供避孕套的潮流，國際奧委會對此表示支持，稱這是爲了幫助人們關注並預防艾滋病，而且還附贈健康信息。

倫敦奧組委爲奧運會的10800名運動員提供了15萬個免費避孕套，可以在自動售貨機領取。避孕套由英國消費品集團利潔時旗下的杜蕾斯公司提供，該集團爲此供應權支付了費用。

奧組委的一位女發言人表示，他們將調查是誰分發了所謂的“袋鼠避孕套”，因爲盒子裏面的避孕套來自杜蕾斯的競爭對手、澳大利亞的安塞爾公司和英國私營企業帕桑特。

她還表示，運動員和官員可以將產品帶進奧運村，供個人使用。

她說：“我們將對此展開調查，並要求不把這些避孕套分發給其他運動員，因爲杜蕾斯是我們的供應商。”

奧組委嚴格控制哪些品牌可以在奧運會中出現，與有限的數家公司簽訂贊助合同，並阻止非贊助商的標識在奧運會上得到免費的宣傳。

帕桑特公司的總經理勞倫斯-布恩表示，公司與奧運村的避孕套分發事件無關，他還懷疑稱這是澳大利亞代表隊的惡作劇。

倫敦奧運會提供的避孕套數量已經突破了四年前北京奧運會的10萬隻。