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The dumb part of all of this is how the gov. and the IOC handled the summer olympics up to this point. For instance there was the discussion around the maratho
by hrktb 7y ago
The dumb part of all of this is how the gov. and the IOC handled the summer olympics up to this point.
For instance there was the discussion around the marathon, where runners would be at serious risk when running outdoors in the middle of the summer in Tokyo. Yet it took months and months of discussions, stupid alternatives (including "let's change Tokyo's time during the Olympics so the marathon starts at the planned time, but it would actually be super early morning when the sun is still low") to finally move it to a place where people won't be dying.
The current administration is well above caring for public safety, but we can hope the international outcry will be huge enough of a threat to force their hand.
[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-olympics-2020-marathon-idUSKBN1WV1DA https://www.reuters.com/article/us-olympics-2020-marathon-id...]
- gph 7y agoI have to imagine the heat/humidity is just as bad in places like LA/Atlanta that have previously hosted the summer olympics. Did they just not care about heatstroke back then?
- gamblor956 7y agoLA is quite dry in the summer. Atlanta does get humid, but not nearly as bad as Tokyo does.
- hrktb 7y agoYes, and they ran the Atlanta one at 7AM. That was also the plan at some point for Tokyo. There was a Doha marathon ran this year at midnight, still running at around 30°C and needing crazy heat counter measures to be runnable. It was their test drive to see if the same setup would work for Tokyo, but it appeared the Doha marathon was still a hell to run so they gave up and moved the location to somewhere cooler.