How are professional athletes adapting to extreme heat? - BBC News

The last Olympics in Tokyo were one of the hottest on record, with more than a hundred athletes suffering heat-related illnesses.
To avoid a similar situation at the Paris Olympics this summer, more and more athletes are adopting heat-training strategies to get ahead of the competition.
Qasa Alom, from the BBC’s Climate Question podcast, has been to meet one of them - Phil Sesemann.
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[@YukkuriKurilla]

I’m going to compete in the olympics in 2028💪

[@dominic197733]

Where’s going to be hot? I’m sick of putting the heating on. It’s freezing you 🤡.

[@erincoco612]

😂😂😂😂😂 and where do you live CLOWN?!

[@JohnGaming97]

No wonder it's called extreme sport 💀

[@hughw2377]

Just another normal day for Indian and African athletes 😂

[@jasperherr8694]

not true. africa has high differences in day and night temps. not sure about India, they are lousy in sports regardless the climate

[@Eric-lx8hp]

@@jasperherr8694not true they got that 1 guy in Javelin

[@jasperherr8694]

@@Eric-lx8hp “fantastic” it is. out of 1.4 billion people! Wow! /s

[@AMAKURUYABBC]

Dukunda amakuru ya BBC news Gahuzamiryango from Rwanda

[@metalicminer6231]

Who would guess summer would be a warm?

[@danielramon962]

But what do they eat/drink...more / less, etc.?😏

[@NoWindNoSunNoPower]

What “extreme” heat?

[@K_Hip]

Dude got a heat machine, world class facilities but he is still going to get rinsed by those east africans

[@sunshinesquares]

I don’t know but I’ll be sitting in my air conditioning cheering them on.

[@puzzling7785]

This can damage kidneys working out in this kind of heat.

[@jikk558]

BBC visit Pakistan how public tolerate the heat in narrow streets.

[@MrMilliron]

45 day forcast says on average 25-27/14-17 degrees celsius, no heat wave, just beautiful weather

[@AndresGomez-ct7qb]

Any forecast of over 4 days isn't the most reliable, and anything over a week to 10 days is just dishonesty. So I wouldn't trust that.

[@erincoco612]

😂😂😂😂 uh huh

[@MrMilliron]

@@erincoco612 check it out, cool nights warm dry days, the olympics will have the best weather!

[@TimpanistMoth_AyKayEll]

And I just had a lovely breakfast, which proves that famines are is fake news.

[@curiositycloset2359]

Must be why they are all dying suddenly then. Obvious really. Always happened. I remember as a kid, always happened.

[@codswallop164]

@curiositycloset2359 I hope these athletes got the climate change booster to protect their health.

[@curiositycloset2359]

@@codswallop164 I'm sure their all boosted to the max. That's why they will all be fine and their sudden deaths won't be contagious.

[@codswallop164]

@curiositycloset2359 That's cardio warming, I guess refusing to roll my sleeves up gave me natural immunity from dying suddenly when exercising.

[@rc-st9pg]

Has nothing to do with the shots. Could be anything from heat to eclipses, to entangledment of particles. We just DONT KNOW!!!

[@codswallop164]

@rc-st9pg Or possibly the lack of gay marriage in the global south.

[@erincoco612]

What a stupid think to ask! How are ATHLETES coping with the heat?? How about how are the millions of non athletes ie people of the world dealing with the heat. Maybe. We can admit finally THIS IS A HUGE PROBLEM?!

[@TimpanistMoth_AyKayEll]

I get what you're saying, but a lot of people care a LOT about sports, including the kinds of people who otherwise don't watch the news or care about / believe there is a climate crisis. Any means to bring their attention to the issue is probably a good idea.

[@erincoco612]

@TimpanistMoth_AyKayEll you have to be living in the arctic circle not to see the changes. And even there...the changes haven't been subtle. Yes sadly too many people care more about sports than actual concerns. It's bread and circus.

[@dandoe1620]

It was 70 degrees Fahrenheit there today 😂.

[@fastwheels195]

Im am endurance handcyclist and it's usually 104 F by the time I get done with a metric century. Just need to train like you race.

[@ChrisOneill-ov4rx]

A real phycotic mind job all are like that we are doing this that giggling like little girls thats subconcious in that when you are in fear you scream in defiance fear wadhes over you

[@blessings4life]

Eww just sweating all over the place

[@codswallop164]

Makes me wonder if the crowds in ancient Greece were discussing man made climate change as the Olympians struggled with "extreme heat".👻

[@metalicminer6231]

Did they have state sponsored propaganda channels back then?

[@codswallop164]

@metalicminer6231 Obviously all "far right" climate change denyers.

[@adambananas7741]

This is the least of my concerns

[@ChrisOneill-ov4rx]

I just want to say i enjoyed every minute of it i get of on this nadbess

[@boeingpameesha9550]

Thank you for sharing.

[@Mary-tq4ge]

And yet African athletes are going to come out balling with no tech involved 😂😂

[@ChrisOneill-ov4rx]

That you should pass on to the other side and rebirth

[@03_ryceE]

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[@fordithwilliam5027]

Deal with heat like the infantry does-tough it out!

[@LokiBeckonswow]

hmmm but also how is our entire global species going to adapt to extreme heat

[@TimpanistMoth_AyKayEll]

So, us humans are pretty good at heat adaptation, relatively speaking. Our crops, fish stocks and other species we depend on are in a lot more trouble. In S1E5 of "Extrapolations," the whole Indian subcontinent appears to have shifted most activities to nighttime because of frequently lethal daytime temperatures. That's doable for some human activities, as is living underground, but again the really major problem is food production. We can adapt - up to a point. We MUST slow (and then stop and then, hopefully, reverse) the warming before it gets beyond that point.

[@Silks-]

we won’t

[@ChrisOneill-ov4rx]

I thought it quite humirous

[@jamescrump6356]

It’s called summer.

[@jeromemanoharan7427]

Exactly. Also appears that a Solar Eclipse is also classified as climate change 😂

[@JJONNYREPP]

extremism even in reference to the weather. where will it all end?

[@curiositycloset2359]

​@@JJONNYREPP sun does rise in the far right

[@JJONNYREPP]

@@curiositycloset2359 THOUGH HAS YET TO SHINE OUT HIS ARSE OR HER'S FOR THAT MATTER. THE SUN ALSO SHINES ON TV. imagine wadtign 26 years of you rlife with that woman only to find she was using you for a stepping stone. the sun is th eleast of your worries in that case. good luck!!!!

[@Talisguy]

@@jamescrump6356 Why does everyone think they know more than the entire scientific community when this issue is raised?

[@MushroomMagicGrowing]

Zero talk of electrolytes…?

[@MichaelSolomon-hr5zt]

I've just uploaded files that make Julian asanjay and watergate look like a joke

[@holmhelena]

For BBC, every story is a climate change story.

[@belladonnatook8851]

Climate change is, basically, the over-riding issue of these times.

[@hollytalbot6695]

@@belladonnatook8851 😜🤪🤡

[@rc-st9pg]

@@belladonnatook8851 Were literally on the verge of nuclear war. I dont think nuclear weapons are very good for the environment. And anyone who has been around for any amount of time knows the exact same environmental bullshit has been going on for decades. Yet the same poeple who claim the earth will be flooded by melting ice seem to buy homes on beaches next to the ocean. There are literally thousand year old baths at sea level in Rome, that are exactly the same as they have been for thousands of years. The climate change propoganda is about control. It has ZERO to do with the climate.

[@dotexe55games31]

The BBC ..... :-/

[@ChrisOneill-ov4rx]

Thats common in dreams but in reality that is some paleguis stuff mouth hsrrasnent as seceral this day alone and all tell them selfs tgat are winning this war of mouth

[@auro1986]

how? they have to watch bbc

[@ChrisOneill-ov4rx]

Denying ppl right to debtal care lol

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OT!! Benny Hill considered funnier than Monty Python by two TV stations --WOR and WLVI!

[@rashadulalom8660]

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[@benjaminponzer4448]

Where is the "F" in athlete?

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[@PROJECTPOGO]

Same way they always have NCSWIC NOTHING

[@inevitablejuniorm5736]

First

[@NowisEvollovetion]

What extreme heat? Lol Same old BS BBC.

[@SheepofTheShepherd-nu3lz]

Thems used to it

[@SarahBarbara1]

Where is the UK election coverage?

[@ChrisOneill-ov4rx]

The ai system broken down right sent its units to bottom of there country into a coner in game backs turned i found be very strange never seen it before

[@ChrisOneill-ov4rx]

You should be used to losing by now im sure ul have another crack and have another good head start

[@ChrisOneill-ov4rx]

Nothing personal m8

[@BejTjubu]

Players of esports have air conditioner , chair and snack.🤣 Easy Way to be fat guy.😂

[@allinonegammer]

Bbc your father is cr7

[@tadaspulkaunikas8483]

You have received task yeasterday .everything you can do iš search in other persona underpants .the same level sportsmans you prapare.

[@ChrisOneill-ov4rx]

But that is basiclly what has happend to u non lethal force

[@tadaspulkaunikas8483]

Not much to say about these BBC and all the team includimg this 'sweete".

[@ChrisOneill-ov4rx]

Lmfbo any 1 see the brown eye jet black mexican ncdade in italy

[@ChrisOneill-ov4rx]

So so sad how canity abd ego push ppl do things o but we come bk then some says ur bunker is in france

[@ChrisOneill-ov4rx]

Ronnie

[@ChrisOneill-ov4rx]

Lead exile of his munster ppl not mubster provence ireland flag related sweden

[@ChrisOneill-ov4rx]

Lets find out A U

[@ChrisOneill-ov4rx]

In a conputer game ai ofcourse i play total war rome delares war on me i never use allies curious this time so i activated every thing max 7 armies all allies activated all declared war what happend

[@socalexpat]

😀

[@7bopper]

Reform ❎👍

[@ChrisOneill-ov4rx]

I feel they want me do something im like u know fine well wat im going do victoria

[@ChrisOneill-ov4rx]

Lol mon guys dont be loke that celabrate the dead

[@ChrisOneill-ov4rx]

Lol 1 out of them animals out bk slabbering i laughed i said here you know what to do get me bre larsson autograph

[@ChrisOneill-ov4rx]

They know fine well its over for them mouthing on from c sa ba u expect ofcourse we all know what happens nex

[@ChrisOneill-ov4rx]

Seeing im supprised that you ppl are even alive

[@ChrisOneill-ov4rx]

CA o zcA o

[@jinlee2617]

Beating an old dog of 41 years....BBC glorifying as if he beat Mo on his prime. Utter nonsense! Farah will always be the GOAT.

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[@ChrisOneill-ov4rx]

Ca r TA

[@ChrisOneill-ov4rx]

Not for u too u

[@consultant2678]

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[@ecm86]

Should be concerned about kidney damage

[@ChrisOneill-ov4rx]

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[@lexruptor]

Truth is they aren't, because the heat isn't literal anymore. Used to be temperature, now it's getting canceled over long-standing cultural traditions, like a victory kiss. So glad I never became an Athlete, would've sucked to see my career go down the drain over petty bs just becahse everyone wants to be a brainless moron these days, on BOTH sides. Only situation where both sides are at fault ngl, but man is it a fault. I think of this stuff these days, and I just see Butters, from South Park, getting jailed for pinching people who aren't wearing green on St. Patrick's Day, this is literally what the world has come to, Culture only matters if you're brown or your culture doesn't offend stupid people, and ngl, it's about time we had a right proper push back against such idiocy, it's not Cancel Culture (when you're fired for actually doing something wrong), it's Culture Canceling (when your very culture itself is being canceled because it offends someone with delicate sensibilities for some arbitrary reason), and we MUST stop it before it ruins the whole world, all of our diversity, and leaves us stranded in uniformity and compliance, where you need consent to even take a shit.

[@ChrisOneill-ov4rx]

Living each day in fantist delusion basiclly turning there backs on you to stare into a coner like a snot nose child ive seen before

[@ChrisOneill-ov4rx]

Saddly linked to this rebellion freki no longer with us or od i n if ur a snack dealer

[@Madonsteamrailways]

I’m sorry, but I have no interest in ANY kind of sport other than snooker.

[@orvilleclisby6748]

He's not original like me.

[@kusitawiah12]

Herrrrrrrr BBC. Okay. Please Ronaldo fans let's unfollow BBC media for disrespecting Ronaldo. Unsubscribe BBC lets goo

[@ChrisOneill-ov4rx]

Luck of the draw kid

[@ChrisOneill-ov4rx]

2nd most hated person in world

[@markmeridian3360]

Hilarious. There has been 1.5 F degrees of warming on AVERAGE over the last CENTURY. Most of that has been in winter and overnight temperatures. In the U.S., the only country with extensive records from 100 years ago, the 1930s had the most frequent and intense heat waves. The BBC really needs to get some perspective.

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[@skyliner467]

Communism will make us cold, right BBC?

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Good evening 🌷 🌹 🪷 🪻

[@angelog1085]

Putin Putin.