Editorial: No A/C for Olympic athletes in Paris? Good intention, but bad idea
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Editorial: No A/C for Olympic athletes in Paris? Good intention, but bad idea

LA Times  

People pass the Grand Palais days before the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Instead of installing A/C to keep housing safe and comfortable for thousands of athletes staying in the Olympic village, organizers planned to rely on a geothermal system that pipes in cool water underneath the floors. “I have a lot of respect for the comfort of athletes, but I think a lot more about the survival of humanity,” Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo told a French radio station last year. Confronting a crisis like climate change means doing many things at once, such as helping people cope with extreme heat while reducing the fossil fuel consumption that’s causing global warming. We hope future Olympics, including the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles, find the right balance by expanding on Paris’ commitment to sustainability and climate action but not becoming so doctrinaire that the efforts backfire.

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The Paris Olympics organizers say the event was far less polluting than recent Games
1 week, 5 days ago

The Paris Olympics organizers say the event was far less polluting than recent Games

Associated Press  

PARIS — The Paris Olympics says it was far less polluting than recent Games but is not claiming to have been “carbon neutral” despite funding projects to compensate for its emissions. Organizers said Wednesday that this summer’s Olympics and Paralympics generated 1.59 million tons of climate-warming carbon dioxide, from the food athletes ate and construction of their rooms to flights …

Opinion: What L.A. needs to produce a (nearly) zero-emission Olympic Games
4 months ago

Opinion: What L.A. needs to produce a (nearly) zero-emission Olympic Games

LA Times  

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, California Gov. Mayor Karen Bass wants a car-free Games, though the LA28 committee in charge of staging the events prefers to say “public-transit first.” While those efforts may ease congestion on our roads, addressing L.A.’s air quality during the Olympics requires much more. Olympics L.A. Mayor Karen Bass outlines vision for ‘car-free’ Olympics L.A. Mayor …

Did the Olympics save the summer? I think it probably did
4 months, 1 week ago

Did the Olympics save the summer? I think it probably did

Live Mint  

The Olympics even melted Paris. “We saw ourselves as a nation of chronic complainers," Paris 2024 boss Tony Estanguet said at Sunday’s closing ceremony. As someone who covered those dreary predecessors, it was a blast to look around nearly every Paris stadium and see it filled to the rafters, from the gorgeous fencing cave inside Grand Palais to the ’70s …

Paris Olympics 2024: France turned the Games into a citywide party for everyone.
4 months, 1 week ago

Paris Olympics 2024: France turned the Games into a citywide party for everyone.

Slate  

This is part of Slate’s 2024 Olympics coverage. I even loved the golf, which surprised me by being the Olympics’ most egalitarian spectator experience, all ticket holders equal in our dignified scrambling up the grassy hillocks around the course. “Paris Superstar,” read the cover of Saturday’s Libération, the left-wing daily that can usually be counted on for Olympic cynicism. Even …

Paris and the Olympics have changed each other during their summer fling
4 months, 1 week ago

Paris and the Olympics have changed each other during their summer fling

Associated Press  

PARIS — In French, there are no goodbyes. Initial grumbling about barricades and other intense security measures that disrupted locals’ lives — not to mention arson attacks on France’s high-speed rail network — gave way to choruses of “Allez les bleus!” or “France, let’s go!” There were uplifting stories galore for non-French fans, too. “Breaking the norms” became the unofficial …

Olympic Games Paris 2024: Men’s road cycling course ascends Montmartre; Remco Evenepoel takes gold.
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Olympic Games Paris 2024: Men’s road cycling course ascends Montmartre; Remco Evenepoel takes gold.

Slate  

This is part of Slate’s 2024 Olympics coverage. But on Saturday afternoon, as the men’s Olympic cycling road race wound its way up Montmartre’s cobblestone switchbacks, the spirit of resisting the forces of order rose up once again. So far, these Olympic Games have been joyous, family-friendly events, with fans expertly managed by heavily armed police and choreographed by MCs …

Olympics 2024: Sports Ministry provides 40 ACs for Indian athletes amid Paris heatwave
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Olympics 2024: Sports Ministry provides 40 ACs for Indian athletes amid Paris heatwave

India TV News  

Amid soaring temperatures at the Paris Olympics, the Indian sports ministry has ensured the comfort of Indian athletes by supplying 40 portable air conditioners to their rooms in the Games Village. Indian athletes have been facing intense heat and humidity in Paris, prompting the Ministry of Sports to intervene by providing portable air conditioners to make their stay more comfortable. …

Fans and athletes blast Paris Olympic Games organisers for a lack of cold water as temperatures in French capital reach a scorching 37C
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Fans and athletes blast Paris Olympic Games organisers for a lack of cold water as temperatures in French capital reach a scorching 37C

Daily Mail  

There was fresh humiliation for Games’ organisers last night after sweltering fans and athletes blasted the lack of cold water as concerns about E.coli in the River Siene led to the men’s triathlon being postponed. In the early hours of Sunday morning, a pre-race triathlon event due to take place in the Seine was cancelled due to water quality concerns …

Paris Olympics: The radical transformation of Games villages over a century
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Paris Olympics: The radical transformation of Games villages over a century

The Hindu  

From making its first appearance here as a novel concept in 1924, the Olympic Games Village has come a long way to be an environmentally friendly legacy project for Paris 2024. If the first ever Games Village — a cluster of temporary wooden huts near the Colombes Stadium catered to the athletes with some basic facilities, including a post-office, a …

World leaders pledge billions to sports and sustainability at pre-Olympics summit
4 months, 4 weeks ago

World leaders pledge billions to sports and sustainability at pre-Olympics summit

Associated Press  

PARIS — World and business leaders have pledged billions of dollars in financing and committed to supporting various sporting initiatives aimed at accelerating sustainable development, one day before the Olympic Games officially open. About 500 participants, including 50 heads of state and government, attended Thursday’s summit championed by French President Emmanuel Macron and International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach near …

Paris Olympics 2024: Key issues – Israel, Russia, Seine, hijab ban, workers
5 months, 1 week ago

Paris Olympics 2024: Key issues – Israel, Russia, Seine, hijab ban, workers

Al Jazeera  

As Paris gets closer to hosting its third Olympics, Al Jazeera looks at the five biggest talking points. In September, then-French Sports Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera announced that the country’s athletes would not be allowed to wear hijabs during the Olympics to respect principles of secularism and to ensure “absolute neutrality in public services”. IOC President Thomas Bach, when asked in …

US Olympic and other teams will bring their own AC units to Paris, undercutting environmental plan
6 months ago

US Olympic and other teams will bring their own AC units to Paris, undercutting environmental plan

Associated Press  

EUGENE, Ore. — The U.S. Olympic team is one of a handful that will supply air conditioners for their athletes at the Paris Games in a move that undercuts organizers’ plans to cut carbon emissions. U.S. Olympic and Paralympic CEO Sarah Hirshland said Friday that while the U.S. team appreciates efforts aimed at sustainability, the federation would be supplying AC …

Paris is aiming for the most sustainable Olympics yet. Organizers acknowledge the plan isn’t perfect
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Paris is aiming for the most sustainable Olympics yet. Organizers acknowledge the plan isn’t perfect

Associated Press  

PARIS — Of all the decisions Paris Olympics organizers made about where to hold each sport, sending surfing competitions to the other side of the world — in the Pacific waters of Tahiti — provoked the strongest reactions. Tahiti’s selection provides a window into Games organizers’ approach to hitting their goal of reducing emissions, the driver of climate change. Rose …

Athletes at 2024 Paris Olympics will have to make do without air conditioning as part of country's effort to 'combat climate change'
8 months ago

Athletes at 2024 Paris Olympics will have to make do without air conditioning as part of country's effort to 'combat climate change'

Op India  

Thousands of athletes at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris will have to make do without air conditioning as the organisers have decided not to install ACs at the athletes’ village as part of their initiative to combat global warming. PARIS TO DENY AIR CONDITIONING TO OLYMPIC ATHLETES IN AUGUST TO "COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE" France's electricity is almost completely decarbonized …

Heatwave risk hovers over Paris Olympics
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Heatwave risk hovers over Paris Olympics

Hindustan Times  

Scorching summer heat is hard to imagine now in mid-winter Paris, but in six months' time when the world's athletes arrive for the Olympics, another pounding heatwave would spell trouble for organisers. HT Image A new study presenting "climate simulations to anticipate worst-case heatwaves during the Paris 2024 Olympics" has focused minds after it warned that the French capital faced …

Watch: How is Paris preparing for the 2024 Summer Olympics?
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Watch: How is Paris preparing for the 2024 Summer Olympics?

The Hindu  

With just six months to go until the start of the Paris Olympics, the clock is ticking for the organising committee. Political bickering, ongoing grumbling about ticket prices and disruption to everyday life are souring the mood in the build-up to the Paris Olympics this July -- something organisers blame on typical French pessimism. Many Parisians were dismayed in December …

Activists urge Paris Olympics organizers to respect the rights of migrants and homeless people
1 year, 1 month ago

Activists urge Paris Olympics organizers to respect the rights of migrants and homeless people

Associated Press  

PARIS — Aid groups and social justice activists protested outside the Paris Olympics headquarters and appealed Monday to French authorities to protect the rights of thousands of migrants and others living on the streets as the Paris region prepares for the Summer Games. More than 70 nongovernmental organizations issued a letter Monday to Paris regional authorities, the Olympics organizing committee …

Opinion: Will the Olympic Games be as costly for L.A. as they are for Paris?
1 year, 4 months ago

Opinion: Will the Olympic Games be as costly for L.A. as they are for Paris?

LA Times  

A mural depicting a version of the L.A. 2028 Summer Games logo at the Delano Recreation Center in Van Nuys in 2020. Back in 2017, when the International Olympic Committee simultaneously handed the 2024 and 2028 Summer Games to France and the U.S., IOC President Thomas Bach vowed that the scheme would be “a ‘win-win-win’ situation for the city of …

Paris aims to keep Olympians cool without air conditioners
1 year, 9 months ago

Paris aims to keep Olympians cool without air conditioners

Associated Press  

The Paris Olympics is going underground to find a way to keep athletes cool at the 2024 Games without air conditioners. “I want the Paris Games to be exemplary from an environmental point of view,” said Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, who has resolved to tackle climate change with an ambitious action plan that aims to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions …

Can Paris 2024 deliver a ‘climate positive’ Olympics?
1 year, 9 months ago

Can Paris 2024 deliver a ‘climate positive’ Olympics?

The Hindu  

Organisers of the 2024 Paris Olympics say they plan to make the Games the world’s first ‘climate positive’ sporting event, a boast experts claim is ‘misleading’. ‘Offsetting emissions’ Organisers have also favoured the use of electricity from renewable energy sources, with most venues near to public transport, and serving spectators “low-carbon” dishes with less meat at venues. “By offsetting even …

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