Athletes wore ice vests and spectators carried hand fans as a heatwave hits the Olympic Games in Paris.
Italy's Jana Germani is competing in the women's skiff sailing event in Marseille, where temperatures could reach 35CTemperatures are expected to reach 35C with a heat warning issued for Paris and the surrounding areas.
The sailing events are taking place in Marseille, on the Mediterranean coast in the south of France, where competitors wore ice vests to try to counteract the heat. Organisers have contingency plans for each sport and venue - some sports, for example, have a specific temperature threshold where play cannot continue if it goes above that.
"We should not have any major cancellations, but we will evaluate on a case-by-case basis," Paris 2024 operations director Lambis Konstantinidis told BBC Sport on Tuesday.A recent report by climate scientists and heat physiologists at the University of Portsmouth in the UK, said average temperatures in the French capital for the equivalent period in which the 2024 Olympics will be held
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