STANFORD, California — As the Paris Olympics fast approaches, summertime temperatures will only continue to get hotter, giving athletes additional challenges as they seek to bring home medals.
Temperatures are expected to soar again in the European summer, after setting records in 2023, and although it is too early for an exact forecast for July, national weather agency Meteo-France said warmer than normal conditions were most likely.
There will be no air-conditioning in the athletes’ rooms at Paris 2024, which has pledged to host the greenest ever Games, meaning they will have to pay more attention to their body temperatures as they train, recover and compete.
“It can be very hot and miserable (in Paris), as it was in Tokyo during the last Olympics,” Craig Heller, a biology professor at Stanford University who specializes in body temperature regulation, told Reuters.
“And that increase in environmental temperature has lots of effects on performance.” — Reuters
