Posted on 03/14/2024 5:25:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Olympic athletes are going to be on the hot seat this summer in Paris.
Not just metaphorically; the Paris Olympic Committee wants this Olympics to be the greenest ever (take that, Classical Greeks!), and one of the measures they have taken is to build the Olympic village without any air conditioning.
There will be no air conditioning in athletes' rooms at #Paris2024, which pledged to host the ‘greenest ever’ Olympic Games. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo spoke to @Reuters about the city's plans to keep athletes cool https://t.co/Js9skXtWoF pic.twitter.com/uVBMusztdi— Reuters (@Reuters) March 14, 2024
I think this is one virtue signal that will see plenty of athletes breathing fire and with smoke coming out of their ears.
The French are very proud of the fact that all these athletes and visitors who flew on private and chartered jets are going to emit fewer pounds of CO2 once they arrive in Paris; sure, their commitment to climate virtue signaling didn't prevent them from emitting tons of CO2 in preparation for the event, but then again nobody was watching them closely then.
Not everybody is thrilled with the decision, perhaps because athletes suffering from heat exhaustion might not perform optimally, or even for the simple reason that going to bed sweating kinda sucks eggs.
"Our clear wish is that there should be air-conditioning in all rooms," the Norwegian Committee told Reuters, with Brazil saying "the heat forecast" made it "necessary to invest in renting air-conditioning units for the entire delegation".
Australia's Chef de Mission Anna Meares said they were "looking at portable air conditioners to offer the athletes should they choose to if it gets hot, if it's uncomfortable".
The Canadian Olympic Committee told Reuters it had "implemented a number of heat mitigation strategies in Paris to complement the measures put in place by the Paris 2024 Organising Committee, including air conditioning units in some athlete rooms in case of extreme heat".
What matters for Hidalgo, however, is that the athletes' village, which will be home to some 6,000 Parisiens after the Games, is a sustainable project.
This is, of course, totally absurd. There is nothing "sustainable" about an Olympics, and nobody should pretend otherwise. The last "sustainable" Olympics was in 393 A.D., when the ancient Olympics were shut down because Pope Theodocius I decreed them a pagan ritual and they were banned.
Jerk.
For over a thousand years, the Olympics were "sustainable" and "green," but the modern Olympics are massive displays of excess and international political competition. France's contribution to the competitive spirit appears to be arrogance and virtue signaling, and they have proven to excel in that arena.
Perhaps, though, this is a bid to bring back the tradition of competing in the nude, this time not to display the ideal human physique at work but to hasten the cooling process that sweating profusely provides to the human body.
On a more serious note, I generally approve of the idea of finding innovative solutions to reduce inefficiencies in any system and maximizing natural cooling is as legitimate a way to do so as anything else. But the point should be to make things better for human beings, not to make sacrifices to the god Gaia.
Perhaps this proves Theodocius I right; the Olympics have once again become a pagan ritual.
Big B, Little O. B-O.
Total up all the CO2 emissions for the entire even from construction to transportation and this stupid gesture probably saves 0.1%.
Airbnb hosts in the area are poised to do well if they can offer spaces with A/C.
Do the athletes have to stay in the village?
Overall this a good thing.
It will hopefully get the message out to the masses on who will be next...
This is good but too little, too late.
Cut out all air conditioning to the United States Congress.
You’ll see more common sense legislation in the following 24 hours than ever before.
I read somewhere that due to the climate and climate fanaticism that AC isn’t really a big deal in Europe to begin with.
Now you have to wonder which will be worse during the Olympics in Paris...the BO or the smell of urine in the streets.
It’s Paris so no showers either
I used to watch the Olympics but I stopped caring quite a few cycles ago. AC follies might be the only amusing and entertaining thing in these games.
Paris avg temp hi/lo
June 74° / 57°
July 78° / 61°
The froggies are looking to set a new record for those killed by excessive heat, like their last experience where the victims were seasoned citizens. They need to show that was not an outlier by moving the victims’ age distribution down the scale.
Suck it, one worlders.
Well they didn’t have A/C when the Olympics were held in Greece.
The original Olympics were played naked. Just trying to help out a little here...
A friend of mine gold medalist in beach vollyball said the villiage look like a porn movie
And the Venues?
Because that’s the month they’d serve lobster?
How about no air conditioning for the next globalist meetings?
Make those hookers sweat as they service our new world order leaders!
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