Put an *asterisk next to all American medals in Paris? They'll have AC in Paris while Kenya, Ethiopians & Ugandans may not

The thing about AC is that athletes have control over the temperature in their specific room. Some can have it warmer, some colder. For the organizers to think that they know the best temperature for everyone is dumb.

Any elite athlete who wants their room to be air conditioned will have it so. You can buy good AC units for one room for like as low as $315 or as high as 2K depending on the quality.

They get 50K if they medal. Any athlete who wants AC in their room will have it. This is not really worth debating over.

This is the problem with a lot of places that use air con. They have it on such a low temperature that it contrasts massively with outside and it's freezing! I've seen olive oil cloudy in supermarkets due to the low temperature, and other places that were just so cold. It's completely unnecessary. Yes, you can need a sweater or jacket in some places due to it being so cold. Then in the winter the opposite - they have the temperature on so high that people are stripping off and overheating massively from being inside buildings, and because it's so cold outside theyr'e overdressed.

I don't understand how they don't grasp this concept and fix it. It's really frustrating actually say if you're going from outside into shops and back out again and so on because you cannot dress appropriately for that and it makes you uncomfortable.

In 2008 less than 0.5% of UK homes had air conditioning.

In 2024 - they say now it's 3-5% of UK homes have air conditioning. It says most are portable systems. I think this seems high. I've only ever seen one house with it.

Funny they think they are saving the world with no A/C or cardboard beds. But then the Olympics builds billion dollar stadiums and then immediately tears them down or lets them sit vacant and rot.

This is a very French attitude. They know exactly how you should eat, sleep, and live in France. However, they refuse to follow those rules themselves.

Yes a thousand times. A permanent home should have been created decades ago. Maybe you even have two sites, one in each hemisphere. But I doubt IOC officials would be happy not getting bribes and royal treatment from cities wanting to host a Games.

As rich nation’s b*tched out as they said okay geothermal as then they go get real good AC as wow as Jakob’s ingebritsen’s social media cried as its real hard for mom’s

what?

We don't need to know about your experience with Viagra.

I looked at the overnight lows in the forecast in Paris. You could totally do without AC if need be there. 50s to low 60s at night in late July. Contrast that to anywhere in the mid-Atlantic US and it's obvious why everyone in the States has AC.

After the nordstream pipeline explosion (and the subsequent coverup), electricity prices increased 45% in Europe. Several EU countries passed laws to regulate temperatures in public buildings, including hotels. In Italy, for example, air conditioners in hotels are barred from being set lower than 77 to 81 degrees Fahrenheit

In the nose bleed section of a 'hotel' in Paris in mid-June last year, the conditions were brutal without A/c or much ventilation. We were sweating the entire night. Yet, in the morning when I went out to look for a track and get some pain au chocolat, it was cool and pleasant. It was fine when we returned (to a different hotel, but in a similar area and high up as well) at the end of July. Similarly, it was pleasant and cool at times when we stayed for six weeks in Paris in June-July back in 2010, but there were entire weeks where it was hard to take without leaving the balcony doors wide open and we couldn't do that much with a young child with us. So, it really depends upon what the weather is at the time. It could be miserable or great.

I don't like A/C and I rarely use it.

I rarely use A/C in my car even when people in Kenya are using it (some of them).

I also hate cold weather. I love heat.

Unfortunately, the world is warming too much for anyone's liking.

Kenya was very hot in January and February, something I've never experienced other than this year.

Almost everyone complains in June, July and August because that is our Winter.

Now, pertinent to the issue at hand, if France won't be too hot, the Africans will be alright. No big deal.

It’s always been the case that Americans (and some other countries) have better facilities and support than poorer countries. Having AC is just one small speck in that disparity.

Whether that translates directly into results is another matter.

The World Veteran Games were in Gateshead in 1999. I ran there and then did a bit of travel around the UK after the Games. None of the hotels we stayed in had AC. Nearly all of them were hot enough that we rarely slept really well. What was really annoying was that they could have been wonderfully cool if we'd been able to open the windows more than just a crack. I'd stick my hand out the crack and it would be cool and breezy outside but almost none of that air got into the rooms. Maybe it will be the same in Paris, cool comfortable evenings that will be fine for sleep with windows that open enough to make the rooms that way as well and the whole issue becomes moot.

It's not super hot though

Sunday 4 Aug is forecast as a low of 20 and high of 27 (sorry, for you a low of 68 and a high of 80). Perfect

Where did you learn to think?