Team Canada buying AC units for athletes at Paris Olympics. Why?
Preparations are heating up for the Paris Olympics and some countries, including Canada, are making sure their athletes remain cool during the two-week-long summer sporting event.
Team Canada is among several visiting delegations that will be adding air conditioning units because the rooms in the Olympic Village where the athletes will be staying won’t have them.
“Aligned with our commitment to providing optimal health and performance conditions for Team Canada, and informed by our conversations with athletes, the Canadian Olympic Committee, with its sport partners and National Sport Organizations, has implemented several heat mitigation strategies,” the COC told Global News in an emailed statement.
“One of these measures is high-efficiency low-emission air conditioning units in some athlete rooms purchased from the organizing committee to complement the measures put in place by Paris 2024.”
After the Games are over, the AC units will be donated locally to people in need, the COC said.
The Athletes Village will house more than 15,000 Olympians and sports officials during the Paris Games, which will run from July 26 till August 11.
Paris organizers have vowed to make this year’s Olympics the greenest ever, with a target to cut carbon emissions in half compared with an average of the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Games.
As part of that effort, the rooms in the Athletes Village won’t come with ACs.
Instead, there will be fans, blinds and a system of cooling pipes underneath the floors.
The main dining hall, however, will have air conditioning and if it gets really hot, additional temporary solutions will be made available if needed, especially for the south-facing Village apartments, Paris organizers told Global News.
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