Athletes staying in villages for the Olympics are undoubtedly used to sweating. But perhaps not quite like this.
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After all, the 2024 Games in Paris won't provide air conditioning for athletes housed in the village this year. The reason: Climate change.
No, really.
Or as written by Ian Miller of OutKick: "Not because of any one individual athlete, or the qualifying process, or the introduction of new sports. It's all due to the political views of the event organizers and their laughable desire to virtue signal on a global stage."
In a recent interview with Reuters, the head of the organization in charge of building athlete housing did indeed use the words "carbon footprint" when explaining away the reasons for no AC units, as Miller relayed.
The Paris 2024 logo, representing the Olympic and Paralympic Games four months prior to the start of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games is displayed on the facade of Paris town hall as soap bubbles float in the air on March 14. (Getty)
"We designed these buildings so that they would be comfortable places to live in in the summer, in 2024 and later on, and we don't need air conditioning in these buildings because we oriented the facades so that they wouldn't get too much sun during the summer, and the facades, the insulation is really efficient," said Yann Krysinski, senior VP of Project Management at the company in charge of venues and infrastructure, via Miller. "We also are providing naturally cool water that we're getting from underground to cool the air of these apartments. So you will not need air conditioning in the summer here."
Yeah, dumb. This is the issue with holding the Olympics in crazy places such as France.
"The average high temperature in Paris in mid-summer is roughly 80 degrees, and with sunset near 11 pm, there's little to no respite from the sun throughout the day," Miller wrote. "Makes perfect sense."
So good luck, everybody. Hope you don't overheat after giving it your all while trying to reach your athletic dreams. But, you know, air conditioning will ruin the world and all.
