Olympics bet against climate change with Seine swimming. For days, it looked like they would lose
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Olympics bet against climate change with Seine swimming. For days, it looked like they would lose

Associated Press  

With plans for athletes to swim the Seine River through the heart of Paris, Olympic organizers essentially bet against climate change’s extreme weather. “It’s definitely time to take climate threats seriously.” If any city could be expected to be mindful of the challenges of climate change, it’s Paris. The laws of physics dictate that warmer air holds more moisture, which comes down as heavier rain, while climate change then changes weather patterns, making them more stuck in downpours or sunny days without clouds, said study co-author Peili Wu, a climate scientist at the United Kingdom Meteorological Office. Future Olympics sites need to take a wetter world into consideration, Villanova’s Duran said: “The sewer overflow issue is bound to get worse until climate change is addressed.” Los Angeles, the host city for the 2028 games, could learn a lesson and work toward more green spaces and fewer private vehicles, Imperial College’s Otto said.

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Paris Olympics organisers say event was less polluting than previous editions but not “carbon neutral”
1 week, 5 days ago

Paris Olympics organisers say event was less polluting than previous editions but not “carbon neutral”

The Hindu  

The Paris Olympics says it was far less polluting than the recent Games but is not claiming to have been “carbon neutral” despite funding projects to compensate for its emissions. Organisers 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 the construction of their rooms to flights …

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 …

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 …

Paris Olympics 2024: The challenge of making the Games more sustainable and eco-friendly.
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Paris Olympics 2024: The challenge of making the Games more sustainable and eco-friendly.

Slate  

This is part of Slate’s 2024 Olympics coverage. It’s a small example of a broader trend: Paris 2024 had enormous ambitions for the Games, planning to cut the carbon footprint by more than 50 percent compared to the London Games 12 years ago. One of the designers told Bloomberg CityLab: “You can smell when you’re in the pool.” Related From …

Olympic athletes have a new worry about the Seine, and it’s not the pollution
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Olympic athletes have a new worry about the Seine, and it’s not the pollution

LA Times  

People have been living along the Seine for more than 3,000 years and they’ve been dumping trash, human waste and whatever else they want to get rid of into the river for much of that time. It wasn’t so easy to swim in the Seine,” Cassandre Beaugrand of France, winner of the women’s triathlon, said of the currents, which were …

When the Olympics almost lost their bet against climate change
4 months, 3 weeks ago

When the Olympics almost lost their bet against climate change

The Hindu  

With plans for athletes to swim the Seine River through the heart of Paris, Olympic organizers essentially bet against climate change’s extreme weather. “It’s definitely time to take climate threats seriously.” If any city could be expected to be mindful of the challenges of climate change, it’s Paris. The laws of physics dictate that warmer air holds more moisture, which …

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 …

Sorry is the hardest word for Paris Olympics organisers once again as exaggerated excuses of rainfall are used to postpone triathlon events - with the River Seine STILL not safe to swim in, writes MIK
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Sorry is the hardest word for Paris Olympics organisers once again as exaggerated excuses of rainfall are used to postpone triathlon events - with the River Seine STILL not safe to swim in, writes MIK

Daily Mail  

The reasoning stank almost as much as the scandal itself. ‘The equivalent of July rainfall fell in just 36 hours,’ Paris 2024 official Anne Descamps told reporters when asked why – once again – triathlon events in the River Seine were postponed. Paris 2024 official Anne Descamps claimed 'the equivalent of July rainfall fell in just 36 hours' as the …

Paris Olympics brings out hoses and misters to cool down fans during heat wave
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Paris Olympics brings out hoses and misters to cool down fans during heat wave

Associated Press  

PARIS — The 2024 Olympics famously launched with a rain-soaked opening ceremony that drenched athletes and spectators alike. Paris 2024 organizers have aimed to cut the event’s carbon footprint, with measures like turning to an underfloor cooling system and insulation instead of air conditioning at the Olympic village where athletes are staying. “I’m a big, big sweater,” Draper said, his …

Paris battles a host of problems before 2024 Olympics begins
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Paris battles a host of problems before 2024 Olympics begins

The Independent  

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Paris Olympics organizers unveil backup plans for triathlon and marathon swimming in Seine
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Paris Olympics organizers unveil backup plans for triathlon and marathon swimming in Seine

Associated Press  

PARIS — The organizing committee for the Paris Olympics has unveiled backup plans for open-water events if the Seine River is deemed unsuitable for swimming. Triathlon and marathon swimming events are scheduled to take place in the famed river running through Paris, but unsafe levels of E. coli have been detected in recent weeks, raising questions about whether the events …

Extreme heat making summer Olympics ‘impossible’, athletes warn ahead of Paris
6 months ago

Extreme heat making summer Olympics ‘impossible’, athletes warn ahead of Paris

The Independent  

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Paris Olympics organizers say swimming events still set for the cleaned-up Seine after heavy rains
6 months, 1 week ago

Paris Olympics organizers say swimming events still set for the cleaned-up Seine after heavy rains

The Hindu  

Despite the complication of recent heavy rain, swimming in the River Seine is still the plan at the Paris Olympics after a $1.5 billion investment to improve the water quality. “No reasons to doubt,” International Olympic Committee executive Christophe Dubi said Thursday at an online briefing after hearing from city officials and Summer Games organizers. Those downpours have complicated the …

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 …

Paris may be hottest ticket of the summer
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Paris may be hottest ticket of the summer

China Daily  

This handout illustration released on December 15, 2021 by Paris 2024 Olympic Committee shows Paris Olympics opening ceremony on July 26, 2024 which will take part on the River Seine, breaking the long-held Summer Games tradition of a stadium procession of athletes and officials. PARIS — Scorching summer heat is hard to imagine now in mid-winter Paris, but in six …

Paris may be hottest ticket of the summer
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Paris may be hottest ticket of the summer

China Daily  

This handout illustration released on December 15, 2021 by Paris 2024 Olympic Committee shows Paris Olympics opening ceremony on July 26, 2024 which will take part on the River Seine, breaking the long-held Summer Games tradition of a stadium procession of athletes and officials. PARIS — Scorching summer heat is hard to imagine now in mid-winter Paris, but in six …

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 …

Paris’ test for Olympic swimming in the Seine canceled due to poor water quality
1 year, 4 months ago

Paris’ test for Olympic swimming in the Seine canceled due to poor water quality

Associated Press  

PARIS — Heavy rains in Paris have led to the cancellation on Sunday of a swimming event in the River Seine that was to be a test for next year’s Summer Olympics, but Games organizers say the waterway will be better prepared in 2024. The Open Water Swimming World Cup event was canceled because “the water quality in the Seine …

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 …

How climate change is threatening the future of the Winter Olympics
2 years, 10 months ago

How climate change is threatening the future of the Winter Olympics

LA Times  

It wasn’t just the massive chunks of ice breaking loose, crashing down. Teammate Jamie Anderson, a two-time Olympic champion in women’s slopestyle, called it “pure physical testimony to how gnarly climate change is.” Olympics How Mammoth Mountain has revolutionized the development of world-class snowboarders Mammoth’s culture and environment has produced many of the top U.S. snowboarders, and some of them …

Can the Winter Olympics survive the climate crisis?
2 years, 10 months ago

Can the Winter Olympics survive the climate crisis?

The Hindu  

The downhill skiing and snowboarding portions of the Winter Olympic Games begin on February 4 at mountains near Beijing that traditionally have very little snow — a problem that also beset the 2014 games in subtropical Sochi in Russia. Even if the snowmaking machines are to be run on renewable energy, a new study shows that failure to dramatically reduce …

Tokyo 2020: How heat and humidity impacted Olympics
3 years, 4 months ago

Tokyo 2020: How heat and humidity impacted Olympics

The Independent  

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