The Tokyo Olympics organizers, already struggling to contain the spread of Covid-19, are contending with another obstacle largely beyond their control: a heat wave.
, are contending with another obstacle largely beyond their control — a heat wave.
“It turns out that she couldn’t stand a whole day out in the heat,” her coach Stanislav Popov told reporters at the archery range while Gomboeva’s teammates placed bags of ice on her head to cool her down. Compared to 1964, which was the last time Japan hosted the summer Olympics, the July and August temperatures in Tokyo are 2.7 degrees warmer and there are now, on average, eight more days of 95 plus degree weather than there was 57-years-ago, Prociv said.
“We adapt to the heat and humidity through what’s called thermoregulation, our bodies’ ability to cool itself off,” Torres said. “For these athletes they will have strong thermoregulation systems but during their event, when they are pushing themselves to the limit of their abilities, their body doesn’t have the reserves it normally does to coil them off.”
In 1960, Danish cyclist Knud Enemark Jensen collapsed from heatstroke during the team time trial at the summer Olympics in Rome. Jensen “cracked his skull and died in hospital,” Wallechinsky said. “He had probably taken amphetamines, but it was 108 degrees Fahrenheit that day.”
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