Scorching temperatures and an incoming tropical storm are the latest factors concerning athletes and Olympic organizers at the already problem-plagued summer games.
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"It’s very hot but also humid. The hardcourts absorb the heat, it stays trapped in there," Djokovic said after his first match,A woman attaches a heat warning sign at the Nippon Budokan martial arts hall on 26 July 2021 in Tokyo. "It doesn’t matter how fit you are," Jon Hood, the head of strength and conditioning for the men's rugby team, said in a statement."Heat and humidity change the way we have to train and recover regardless of how physically apt the players are to deal with extreme exertion. It’s a different animal altogether and requires both discipline and mental toughness to stay in the game.
The tropical storm is not forecast to strengthen into a typhoon, according to the World Meteorological Organization, though news outlets and local officials have been labeling it as such.A man cools off at a mist station installed at Shiokaze Park during the beach volleyball test event for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on July 25, 2019 in Tokyo.
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