[Tournament News]The 2024 Paris Olympics will kick off in less than 150 days. The athletes’ village has recently been opened to the public. Since this year’s Olympics focuses on environmental protection and carbon reduction, there are only electric fans in the room and no air conditioning. This has made the Olympic committees of various countries They would be frightened, worried that Paris would have a high temperature of 42 degrees Celsius in midsummer last year, and the athletes might “die from the heat before the competition starts.” No wonder the delegations from Greece, Australia and Ireland have already announced that they will bring their own mobile air conditioners and fans to the station. Athletes Village.
Seine Saint Denis, located in the north of Paris, was completed on February 29. There are about 40 low-rise buildings in the village with a total of 2,800 units for about 14,000 Olympic athletes and 9,000 Paralympians. Accommodation is provided for players. The terraces of the rooms in the Athletes Village are full of light, and the interior decoration is simple and elegant. There are many ingenuities in the design. However, in order to reduce carbon and achieve the goal of green Olympics, the rooms in the village are not air-conditioned and solar panels are installed on the roofs.
The Paris Olympics will be held from July 26 to August 11. Once a heat wave hits France, the temperature will exceed 40 degrees Celsius, and athletes will definitely have to endure the “zero air-conditioning” environment. However, Yann Krysinski, general director of infrastructure for the Paris Olympics, pointed out: “These buildings do not need air conditioning because the external walls are very well insulated, and there are cooling water pipes under the wooden floors inside the buildings, which are injected in the summer.” Cold water at 11 to 14 degrees Celsius allows the cold water to circulate throughout the building, lowering the floor temperature and indirectly lowering the indoor temperature. There is no need for air conditioning in summer.” The Olympic Organizing Committee said that when the outdoor temperature is 32 degrees, the indoor temperature is expected to drop to The temperature is about 23 degrees. If the heat wave hits and exceeds 32 degrees, the indoor temperature can be lowered to about 26 degrees.
However, when the heat wave hit last summer, the temperature in Paris still soared to 42 degrees Celsius at close to 6 o’clock in the evening. The winter that just passed was also very warm. Even Bosnia, a popular skiing country, was “so hot that there was no snow,” according to the European Meteorological Organization It pointed out that 2024 was the hottest January in history, and since June last year, the record for the hottest month in history has been set every month. Following this trend, the Paris Olympics are expected to face a sweltering summer. At present, Greece and Australia have announced in advance that they will provide their own air conditioners and electric fans, which will not allow athletes to “have a good night’s sleep.”
This article is written by “Sportsroad“Originally published in “Paris Olympics｜Environmentally friendly athletes have no air-conditioning in their village rooms, fearing a heat wave. The three countries are prepared to solve the problem on their own」
2024-03-01 06:47:43
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