Condoms for kayak repairs: Aussie Olympic champ exhibits contraceptives being put to weird use for last-minute boat repair (VIDEO)

Any good kayaker will know that they will need to have a life jacket and paddle to compete, however Aussie star Jessica Fox has revealed that her Olympics have been saved when she used a CONDOM for some last-minute operating repairs on her vessel.

Fox gained bronze within the ladies’s Ok-1 slalom ultimate earlier this week earlier than selecting up gold within the C-1 slalom on Thursday, including to the silver she picked up at London 2012 and one other bronze in Rio 5 years in the past – however her pursuit of Olympic glory was virtually in ruins after she suffered injury to the nostril of her boat prematurely of competitors.

Nonetheless, the wily Fox revealed to her followers on Instagram that her Olympics have been saved on the final minute when she had the brainstorm to make use of a condoms to carry in place a carbon combination which maintained her kayak’s seaworthiness (swipe the Instagram publish under for the video). 

“Wager you by no means knew condoms may very well be used for kayak repairs,” she wrote on Instagram, alongside a picture of an individual stretching the contraceptive over the nostril of her boat.

“Very stretchy, a lot sturdy. It provides the carbon a clean end,” added Fox.

An extra video posted by the Aussie exhibits the earlier than and after shot of what turned out to achieve success repairs. 

Every of the athletes competing at this summer season’s Olympics in Tokyo might be handed condoms, though reportedly not till they’re leaving the Video games.

Free condoms have been given to athletes because the 1988 Olympics in Seoul which came about on the heights of the HIV and AIDS epidemic. The Tokyo organizing committee mentioned, although, that the condoms weren’t issued for using athletes, “however to assist with consciousness by taking them again to their very own international locations” a press release indicated.

It was additionally claimed that so-called ‘cardboard beds’ have been issued to athletes in a bid to stop sexual relations between athletes, although Olympic organizers have since pressured that the beds have been designed in such a approach in order that they may very well be recycled. 

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