Olympic athletes are grappling with one other public well being menace on prime of the pandemic: excessive warmth. This yr’s summer season Olympics are forecast to be the most well liked in many years. Temperatures anticipated to rise above 30 levels Celsius (near 90 levels Fahrenheit) this week might put even the strongest athletes in peril of warmth stroke or sickness. They’ll additionally must cope with oppressive humidity, which interferes with the physique’s capacity to control its temperature by sweating, on prime of the scorching warmth.
Athletes have tried to acclimate themselves to the climate upfront of the video games. Workforce USA, for instance, even took inspiration from how…
