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Athletes sound warning about extreme heat at Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes share how they’ve been affected by extreme heat in a new report.
Nearly two dozen elite athletes — ranging from track & field stars to rowers, footballers, marathon swimmers, and more — added their testimonies about how brutally hot temperatures have affected them. Tennis player Marcus Daniell, who, at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, won a Bronze medal for New Zealand in the men’s doubles, wrote about how difficult it was to stay hydrated in the heat and humidity that year. In an email to The Verge, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said it addressed many of the issues outlined in the new report in its “ consensus statement on recommendations and regulations for sport events in the heat ” published in 2022.
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