“There will possibly be places on the planet where one simply cannot hold Summer or Winter Olympics, or Test cricket matches anymore. It’s also possible the Summer Olympics may become the Spring or Autumn Olympics.”
Ahead of Paris 2024, Tipton co-authored a research report, commissioned by the non-profit organisations British Association for Sustainable Sport and FrontRunners, that predicted the Games would be the hottest ever. (Official confirmation of this is still awaited.)
Rings of Fire: Heat Risks at the 2024 Paris Olympics included accounts from athletes across 15 sports, including 11 Olympians, on the growing strain caused by rising temperatures.
It’s “scary”, “like your whole body is shutting down” and “fighting you every step of the way,” Mohan, British rower Imogen Grant, Japanese race-walking world champion Yusuke Suzuki and others told Tipton and his fellow researchers.
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