PARIS : Tennis and soccer players are allowed water breaks, BMX riders sit under umbrellas in between runs and horses are being monitored with thermal cameras as the summer Olympics adapt to a heatwave that is hitting Paris and much of France.
Paris 2024 Olympics - Paris, France - July 30, 2024 A person walks past the Buren columns at Paris Domaine National du Palais-Royal with an umbrella during hot weather in Paris REUTERS/Abdul Saboor
Players could use the break to have a shower, change their outfit, eat, drink or go to the bathroom but they could not have medical treatment or talk to their coach. At BMX freestyle events in Concorde square, in central Paris, riders stood under umbrellas, cooled by electric fans, with trainers applying ice.In Versailles, World Equestrian Federation FEI activated a special plan to protect the horses, the body's chief veterinarian said, monitoring the animals with thermal cameras, cooling them if necessary and checking climate data.
"We knew it would be hot and that there is no shade on the," said 22-year old student Mathilde Landin, who was wearing a hat to protect herself from the sun as she watched the tennis."So we took the whole kit: a fan, a small blower fan, water, suncream."
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