A dozen fall ill in heat-easing test for Olympics

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A dozen fall ill in heat-easing test for Olympics
12:30 pm, August 13, 2019

The Yomiuri Shimbun (in The Japan Times)

About a dozen people felt unwell due to the high temperature at a rowing test event for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games on Sunday, despite ongoing preparations for preventing heatstroke during test events nationwide.

The starting time of a marathon swimming test event was abruptly moved forward as a countermeasure against heat.

The weather during the actual Games less than a year from now is a matter of concern.

A 52-year-old female company employee from Saitama who visited the Sea Forest Waterway in Tokyo Bay, where a test event for rowing competitions was held Sunday, said with a sweat-covered face, “I want to come watch Olympic races a year from now, but this extreme heat makes me feel even danger for my life.”

https://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0005933991

Tokyo Is Boiling. Will It Be Too Hot for the 2020 Summer Olympics?


Jake Adelstein
Published 07.24.18 5:13AM ET Daily Beast

Tokyo had its highest ever recorded temperature: 105 degrees in Ome City, located in the west side of the metropolis. In Kumagaya, located in Saitama Prefecture, next to Tokyo, the highest temperature in recorded history was reached at 106 degrees. On Sunday, the Tokyo Fire Department (which provides ambulance services) dispatched 3,125 cars, the most in a single day since it began providing emergency medical care in 1936. The Fire Department said the surge has been caused by heat-related illnesses and injuries; the heat wave enveloping Tokyo is the one fire they can’t put out. Over the last few weeks all across the nation heat-stroke and heat-related illnesses have claimed dozens of lives and injured thousands.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tokyo-is-boiling-will-it-be-too-hot-for-the-2020-summer-olympics

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