Earlier than Jessica Fox gained her first Olympic gold medal within the females’s C1 canoe slalom and bronze within the canoe slalom K1 closing — she shared a video repairing the damaged nose of her kayak the use of a condom.
Australia canoeing gold medallist Jessica Fox (Offer: Twitter)
Australian slalom canoeist Jessica Fox bagged her first Olympic gold medal within the females’s C1 canoe slalom and bronze within the canoe slalom K1 closing, earlier this week at Tokyo Olympics and he or she has a condom to thank for it.
Notably, condoms disbursed at the Olympic Video games Village got right here in at hand for Jessica as she faded the rubber to repair her boat.
In a immediate video posted on Tiktok, the Aussie printed how her team repaired her boat.
“Guess you never knew condoms will seemingly be faded for kayak repairs,” study the text alongside the clip. “How kayakers use condoms,” she captioned the immediate video.
Jessica had gained the bronze with the boat repaired by condom on Tuesday and later she went onto web her maiden Olympic gold within the females’s C1 canoe slalom on Thursday. Earlier than coming to Tokyo, she had gained medals within the final two Olympics. She gained silver within the 2012 London Video games and bronze within the 2016 Rio Olympics.
It is value stating that condoms aren’t arduous to salvage internal the Olympic Village as round 160,000 condoms were handed to athletes by the organisers of the Tokyo Olympics. However, they stated that the distribution of condoms is no longer for use at the athletes’ village, but to bear athletes take them aid to their home international locations.
“The distribution of condoms is no longer for use at the athletes’ village, but to bear athletes take them aid to their home international locations to expand awareness (of HIV and AIDS),” organisers had suggested Reuters.
