US Olympic and other teams will bring their own AC units to Paris
The US Olympic team and others will bring their own AC units to the 2024 Paris Games, despite organizers' carbon emission reduction efforts. This decision aims to ensure athlete performance and comfort.
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The US Olympic team, along with other countries like Germany, Australia, Italy, Canada, and Britain, will bring their own air conditioning units to the 2024 Paris Games, contradicting organizers' efforts to reduce carbon emissions. The decision was made to ensure consistency and performance for the athletes, with the US team citing it as a critical component. Olympic organizers had planned to cool rooms in the Athletes Village using a system of cooling pipes under the floors to maintain temperatures between 23-26 degrees Celsius. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo emphasized the importance of environmental considerations for the Games. The move to bring AC units reflects the high-performance environment of the Olympics, where comfort is prioritized for the 10,500-plus athletes participating. The decision contrasts with the low prevalence of air conditioning in European households, with the majority of units concentrated in China and the US.
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10 commentsLee Kuan Yew attributed the success of Singaporean government to the invention of AC: https://www.vox.com/2015/3/23/8278085/singapore-lee-kuan-yew.... I wonder if the widespread lack of air conditioning in Europe is part of the reason Northern European and Scandinavian countries are more efficient and organized than Mediterranean European countries.
Room temp of 23°-26°C (73°-79°F) may be fine for ordinary couch-potato activities, but not for athletes needing to optimize for performance in the heat. The design is simply not fit for the actual use case, and should have provided the ability to set cooler temps. Optimizing the environment around the competitions, including everything up to bringing their own pillows on tour for sleeping is not uncommon at this level of performance and has been shown to make a difference. The building officials failed to understand the priorities of the assignment. Too bad.
This is why I hate the environmentalist movement: it's full of "lifestyle austerity" types who don't want to solve the problem unless everyone suffers "appropriately".
I think this will end up producing more CO2 in the end..
They fly in 15,000 people (and 9000 for the Paralympics), watched by billions. What joke to then not do AC. This is of course 100% virtue signaling for the climate cult since the air-conditioners won't actually use any power if the temperature is correct using other methods.
Top athletes from rich countries literally use hyperbaric chambers in training and the Paris Olympics won't supply African countries many who are ex-colonies the ability to set a temperature.
“We don’t have deep pockets,” said Donald Rukare, who is president of the Uganda Olympic Committee. Rukare mentioned a sweltering international sports competition in Turkey a few years ago, where athletes stayed in rooms without air-conditioning. Some federations shipped in portable units; Uganda did not. “Because we didn’t have the money,” he said.
This is outside the optimal sleeping temperature FYI as a normal human being going to work. This really surprised me actually, but some say it should be as low as 18C.
Athletes will have added pressures, jet lag, and be sleeping odd hours to get to spec to perform for a few minutes for the millions of $ in training.
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