PARIS: Although designed to be eco-friendly and free of air-conditioning, the Paris Olympic village will be fitted with 2,500 temporary cooling units when athletes arrive later this month, organisers said on Tuesday (Jul 2).
A general view at site of the Olympic village where the athletes will be housed in Saint-Denis, a nearby suburb of Paris, on Jul 2, 2024. PARIS: Although designed to be eco-friendly and free of air-conditioning, the Paris Olympic village will be fitted with 2,500 temporary cooling units when athletes arrive later this month, organisers said on Tuesday .
Organisers devised a compromise that enabled teams to order portable air-conditioning units at their own expense, which can be installed for the duration of the Jul 26-Aug 11 Olympics. The accommodation complex comprises 7,000 rooms in total, with the geothermal cooling system guaranteeing temperatures inside at least 6 degrees Celsius below those outside.
Several national Olympic teams have put pressure on French organisers to make provision for air-conditioning in the rooms. "I think we've found a good compromise between offering the right temperature but also reducing our carbon emissions," Estanguet said."It's one of the main challenges of the Paris 2024 edition."The Paris Games is aiming to reduce its total carbon emissions to half the level of previous editions in London in 2012 and Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
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