The Paris Olympics began in 2024 with rain in its procession, then the heat burnt and finally the pleasant sun week. In the end, temperatures for 35 ° C.
The only certainty about the summer Olympic Games climate is not really certain.
Severe heat is an increasing threat to elite athletes, as thermal exhaust cases and sunstroke have become more common as fossil fuel pollution raises temperatures and humidity levels.
Those spectators, especially those who fly from cold climates, are also vulnerable to severe heat.
Most cities in the world will not be able to host games during the summer in the coming decades, because they will exceed the maximum safe heat, according to the analysis of CNN Carbonplan data, a non -profit collection that focuses on climate science and analysis.
Panorama situation
Stress can be measured by heat with something called the wet lamp temperature in Globe – a mixture of heat, humidity, wind speed, sun angle and cloud cover.
The group found that by 2050, heat stress in almost all cities in the eastern United States will exceed 82.1 degrees, and experts recommend canceling sporting events.
In other words, the performance of the summer Olympic Games in these cities will be a great danger to the health of athlete.
The states that have been identified around the Gulf of Mexico from Florida to the eastern half of Texas will be fine. Games held in 1996 in Atlanta simply will not be possible in 2050.
It will be a large part of East China, including Beijing and Shanghai, much higher than the limit, as well as Hong Kong and large paths from Southeast Asia.
The suggestions for changing the summer Olympic Olympics calendar so that they do not coincide with the heat peak, and this has been done before.
Sydney, the burnt in the summer, hosted the 2000 games in September and October during the spring of the southern hemisphere.
Rio de Janeiro hosted, in Brazil, 2016 games in August, when winter temperatures reach 21 degrees or more.
Cities in northwestern Europe – such as London, Oslo and Stockholm – can become more attractive to this event, while Mediterranean cities – including Palermo in Sicily and Chip in Spain – are higher than the maximum.
South American cities can become more attractive as global temperatures increase.
Candidates for 2036 games
The upcoming summer games will be in Los Angeles, a city whose temperature is with pleasure by the cold Pacific Ocean.
The 2032 games are scheduled to be feasible for Besban, in the Australian state of Queens
Winter in Brisbane is at least 10 ° C
More than 10 countries expressed their interest in hosting the Summer Olympic Games for the year 2036, according to reports, but only six photographed it for its public or official filters: India is competing for its western city in Ahmed Abad and Indonesia to its new capital under construction, Nusantara.
Qatar is competing for Doha, while Türkiye is competing for Istanbul. Poland and Chile presented their capitals, Warsaw and Santiago.
Almost all, at some point, will exceed the extent of stress by heat, carbon data appears.
Only Santiago is less than the year, including in the hotter part of the summer. Ahmed Abad and Doha will be much higher in the hot months, but they are likely to compete for their cold stations.
“Most of the world, the worst heat of the year, unfortunately, coincides with the dates that the summer Olympics are usually performed,” said Carbonblan’s climate scientist, Oriana Tommy. CNN.
“The temperature can already pose major risks to countries that apply to the Olympic Games in 2036.”
She explained that if these places are chosen, the heat risk can be reduced with some simple measures. “For example, planners can relieve heat risk that begin before or after summer peak, or make events at night, or early in the morning, when it is cooler.”
The world added that the countries may consider the cities of bidding with cold climates, such as those at higher altitudes.
They hosted once, but they may not get
Some cities that have already hosted summer games will be further than safe temperatures by 2050.
Beijing, which was a host in 2008, will be very hot and wet, with the stress expected to exceed 32 ° C. Athens, Roma, Atlanta, Tokyo and Soul, and Barcelona.
The cities of the southern hemisphere, Sydney and Pespan entered Australia, as well as Rio de Janeiro, technically to the very hot menu, but can still host its cooler stations.
It is not as if the world sees this only in the middle of the century.
Tokyo 2020 – which was held in 2021 after delaying the epidemic in the event – was the most hot of all, with heat stress exceeds the maximum of more than 31 degrees Celsius.
About one of every 100 athletes have heat -related diseases in Tokyo. Unusually, no person has been transferred to the hospital, partly due to Japan’s preparations.
It was also clear that the severe influence would hit the Japanese capital, a cloud, delicate city built with urban heat, unrivaled marathon and walking to the cold city of Saboro and mountains.
However, the atmosphere was very hot and wet, and he suffered six corridors and infantry from a sunstroke through the voltage, caused by severe thermal activity and could lead to the failure of members and death.
Yuri Hosokawa, Assistant Professor of Sports Science at the University of Wasda in Japan, led the heat response plan in Saboro to this event.
Hosokawa said: “indulging in cold water, or iceberg, is the most efficient way to cool someone quickly,” said Hosokawa.
But some athletes in Tokyo hesitated to take a iceberg, and if they were coherent and were not at the similarity, they were treated with rotating towels that were mired in cold water.
Hosokawa is one of the many experts who ask sports societies worldwide to change the way of sport programming, but also to relax in certain rules.
Allowing more alternatives in a football match to prevent ancient athletes from trying to try is a simple example.
“If we simply abolish sporting events when the weather is hot, it may take a serious chance of everyone,” she explained. “I love sports, and I want to remain a sports culture, and I want my children to exercise as well when they grow up. But if we want to do this, we need to think seriously about the rules and change programming.”
