Welcome to the Paris Olympics, the greenest Olympic games ever.
By the way, I hope you're prepared to see lots of heat strokes!
Yeah, in order to be "EcO-FrIeNdlY," Paris is not putting air conditioning in the Olympic Village.
It's not like it's the SUMMER OLYMPICS or anything...
Several countries' delegations are heated over the decision to cut air conditioning to athletes' lodging for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The Summer Games — which are being touted as the "greenest" ever — aim to cut emissions by more than half compared to previous years, in part by not providing air conditioning in athletes' rooms, Euronews reported.
I'm from the South. Depriving athletes of air conditioning is indeed a form of torture.
The folks in Paris are claiming that the rooms don't need AC because they've built another cooling system.
Instead, a "natural geothermal cooling system" will be used in the athletes' village, where 10,500 Olympians and 4,400 Paralympians will stay.
Naturally cool water from underground will be used to cool the apartments, said Yann Krysinski, who is overseeing the buildings and infrastructure for the Games. "So you will not need air conditioning in the summer here," he said.
I'm all for "new technology" or whatever. But if I was an Olympic athlete I'd be ticked about being a guinea pig for this newly-built system when we have known for decades that air conditioning is God's greatest gift to man.
There's nothing like coming in from a miserable, hot sporting event and standing in front of that cool vent spewing 60-degree air at 80mph.
Oh, and by the way, if you don't think that the no AC thing is a big deal, last year 5,000 people in France died from the heat, and predictions show this summer is going to be another scorcher, possibly breaking records.
So just add tens of thousands of visitors and athletes from around the world and consider that, just maybe, we need to get that AC cranking.
"We appreciate the concept of not having air conditioning due to the carbon footprint [but] this is a high-performance Games," said Australian Olympic Committee CEO Matt Carroll. "We're not going for a picnic."
The Aussies aren't playing around. They're bringing their own AC units and a "heat specialist" who is in charge of keeping the athletes healthy.
Greece and Ireland are bringing their own AC as well.
If the Americans don't form some sort of protest to this stupid green plan, I might have to pull for these other countries that were smart enough to not virtue signal themselves into a heat stroke.
Somebody's gotta have common sense!
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