Paris Olympics at risk due to extreme heat, report warns

A caller study published connected Tuesday has warned astir the dangers posed by utmost temperatures astatine the Paris Olympics.

The study titled "Rings of Fire: Heat Risks astatine the 2024 Paris Olympics," was compiled by the British Association for Sustainable Sport and Frontrunners, an enactment helping athletes prosecute successful biology issues.

Researchers consulted scientists and athletes during the process of compiling the report. 

'Intense heat' could person deadly consequences, study warns

"The adjacent Olympics successful Paris is present upon us, and notable cases of utmost vigor undermining the wellness and enjoyment of sporting spectacles person lone accrued successful the intervening years [since the Tokyo Olympics]," said the report.

It warned that "intense vigor astatine the Paris Olympics successful July-August 2024 could pb to competitors collapsing and successful worst lawsuit scenarios dying during the Games."

The study called for organizers to supply improved rehydration and cooling plans for athletes and fans to debar the hazard of vigor stroke.

Separate concerns person besides been raised astir the presumption of the River Seine that passes done Paris. It is acceptable to big a vessel parade during the opening ceremonial arsenic good arsenic triathlon and marathon swimming events, but dense rainfall has led to beardown currents and degraded the h2o quality.

Paris Olympics taking spot during the tallness of summer

The Paris Olympics volition tally from July 26 to August 11 and volition instrumentality place in what are usually the warmest months successful the French capital.

Paris has been struck by a bid of grounds heatwaves successful caller years. Over 5,000 radical died successful France during past year's summertime erstwhile temperatures exceeded 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) successful immoderate parts, according to nationalist wellness data.

"The information that the Olympics volition instrumentality spot during precocious summertime means that the menace of a devastating blistery spell is simply a precise existent one," it said.

British men's rugby sevens subordinate Jamie Farndale was among those informing of the dangers athletes could face: "What we bash is propulsion ourselves to our limits, and if we person to bash truthful successful conditions that are unsafe I don't deliberation the jock would clasp back."

The organizers of this year's Olympics accidental that person built flexibility into their schedules allowing immoderate events specified arsenic the marathon oregon triathlon to beryllium shifted to debar midday vigor erstwhile temperatures peak.

kb/rc (Reuters, AFP)