The Games appear prepared to adapt to a warming world.
With breaking, skateboarding and surfing present, it's clear the Paris Olympics are not your grandparents' Olympics.In a press conference Friday, International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach intimated the effects of anthropogenic climate change could have a say in the timing of future Games—with an eventual move out of Earth's traditional summer months not out of the question.
“If the climate change is continuing in a way that the experts are forecasting it then it will be very difficult to organize Olympic Games in summer, in August.” BachBach's comments come amid speculation that Saudi Arabia and Qatar—already two sweltering nations—may bid on future Olympics. The former fencer denied, however, that his comments on the timing of the Games related to those two nations.
"We have to sit together, and regardless of where the Games are taking place to see whether the calendar has to be adapted, adjusted to climate change and global warming and the same is already true for the Winter Games," Bach said., while the 2032 Games in Brisbane will be staged in July and August during winter in the Southern Hemisphere.Patrick Andres is a staff writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated.
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