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London Olympic organizers are investigating how a bucket of Australian-tagged condoms found its way into the athletes' village. |
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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. (Read by Rosie Tuck. Rosie Tuck is a journalist at the China Daily Website.) (Agencies) |
倫敦奧組委正在調(diào)查，澳大利亞生產(chǎn)的一批避孕套是如何未經(jīng)官方許可就被帶進(jìn)了奧運(yùn)村。 澳大利亞自行車越野賽選手卡洛琳-布坎南在奧運(yùn)村里用推特發(fā)布了一張照片，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(gè)盒子似乎證實(shí)了運(yùn)動(dòng)員村已經(jīng)成為性派對(duì)的溫床這一傳言，成千上萬的運(yùn)動(dòng)員結(jié)束了比賽，在數(shù)年辛苦的奧運(yùn)訓(xùn)練后開始狂歡。 “哈哈，謠言是真的，奧運(yùn)村。”布坎南在推特上說。她參加的自行車越野賽從周三開始。 1992年西班牙巴塞羅那奧運(yùn)會(huì)開創(chuàng)了給運(yùn)動(dòng)員免費(fèi)提供避孕套的潮流，國際奧委會(huì)對(duì)此表示支持，稱這是為了幫助人們關(guān)注并預(yù)防艾滋病，而且還附贈(zèng)健康信息。 倫敦奧組委為奧運(yùn)會(huì)的10800名運(yùn)動(dòng)員提供了15萬個(gè)免費(fèi)避孕套，可以在自動(dòng)售貨機(jī)領(lǐng)取。避孕套由英國消費(fèi)品集團(tuán)利潔時(shí)旗下的杜蕾斯公司提供，該集團(tuán)為此供應(yīng)權(quán)支付了費(fèi)用。 奧組委的一位女發(fā)言人表示，他們將調(diào)查是誰分發(fā)了所謂的“袋鼠避孕套”，因?yàn)楹凶永锩娴谋茉刑讈碜远爬偎沟母?jìng)爭(zhēng)對(duì)手、澳大利亞的安塞爾公司和英國私營企業(yè)帕桑特。 她還表示，運(yùn)動(dòng)員和官員可以將產(chǎn)品帶進(jìn)奧運(yùn)村，供個(gè)人使用。 她說：“我們將對(duì)此展開調(diào)查，并要求不把這些避孕套分發(fā)給其他運(yùn)動(dòng)員，因?yàn)槎爬偎故俏覀兊墓?yīng)商。” 奧組委嚴(yán)格控制哪些品牌可以在奧運(yùn)會(huì)中出現(xiàn)，與有限的數(shù)家公司簽訂贊助合同，并阻止非贊助商的標(biāo)識(shí)在奧運(yùn)會(huì)上得到免費(fèi)的宣傳。 帕桑特公司的總經(jīng)理勞倫斯-布恩表示，公司與奧運(yùn)村的避孕套分發(fā)事件無關(guān)，他還懷疑稱這是澳大利亞代表隊(duì)的惡作劇。 倫敦奧運(yùn)會(huì)提供的避孕套數(shù)量已經(jīng)突破了四年前北京奧運(yùn)會(huì)的10萬只。 相關(guān)閱讀 倫敦奧運(yùn)村發(fā)15萬只避孕套創(chuàng)紀(jì)錄 2012倫敦奧運(yùn)答題抽獎(jiǎng)活動(dòng) 埃及奧委會(huì)為運(yùn)動(dòng)員提供“山寨”訓(xùn)練服 （中國日?qǐng)?bào)網(wǎng)英語點(diǎn)津 Julie 編輯：陳丹妮） |
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Vocabulary: hot bed: 溫床 strike: 達(dá)成（協(xié)議），簽訂（合同等） |
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