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What happened to all the temporary air conditioning units at the Olympic Village?
Planners didn’t want them in the first place.
If the atmosphere wasn’t overloaded with emissions from burning fossil fuel, Paris would have been about 3°C cooler and much safer for sport,” Friederike Otto, a physicist with an international group of researchers called World Weather Attribution, said on X on July 31st. Paired with other insulating design elements, the system was intended “to achieve a target temperature of 23-26° Celsius [73.4-78.8 Fahrenheit] at the hottest time of the day in a heatwave,” the email from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) says. “We tried to find a balance in the design and fit-out of the Village between a long-term objective to create a sustainable neighbourhood; and a short-term responsibility to give high-performance athletes the best conditions in which to prepare,” IOC spokesperson Arthur Fel said in the email to The Verge.
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