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Although designed to be eco-friendly and free of air-conditioning, the Paris Olympic village will be fitted with 2,500 temporary cooling units when athletes arrive later this month, organizers said Tuesday.
Organizers devised a compromise that enabled teams to order portable air-conditioning units at their own expense, which can be installed for the duration of the July 26-August 11 Olympics. The accommodation complex comprises 7,000 rooms in total, with the geothermal cooling system guaranteeing temperatures inside at least 6 degrees Celsius below those outside.
“I have a lot of respect for the comfort of athletes, but I think a lot more about the survival of humanity,” she told French radio station France Info in February 2023. Teams from rich countries such as Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan and Canada have said they will pay for AC for their athletes, the Washington Post reported last month, potentially giving them an advantage over poorer countries that will go without.
The Paris Games is aiming to reduce its total carbon emissions to half the level of previous editions in London in 2012 and Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
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