For the upcoming Summer Olympics, Paris decided that, for the sake of Climate Change, they were not going to be installing Air Conditioning in the Olympic Village, but instead use fans, pumping cold water, and other methods for cooling.
In response, at a minimum the German, Australian, Italian, Canadian, British and now American all said "Screw that, we're just going to bring our own portable AC units with us"
Apparently the governments of all those countries consider athletic performance more important than "saving the planet". Who would have guessed?
Why are we still wasting ressources on professional sports and around-the-world travel-heavy competitions in the middle of the Climate Crisis?
I'll entertain their bullshit for 5 miutes when rich people's private jets are grounded forever.
P.S. : One thing allowed me to remain semi-functional and employed 5 months a year in the warm season and it's air conditioning. As usual, Leftists who whine about ''compassion'', ''equity'', ''Abelism'' throw struggling people under the bus and make their lives harder with their retarded policies.
Mass migration, rising energy costs, they push for that, which hurts the regular people at the bottom of the ladder.
Because it's good to have a number of human achievement hierarchies, including the non-intellectual kind. It's also good for people to want to be fit and reach their bodies' potential, so celebrating activities along those lines is beneficial for healthy society.
I'll tell you a bigger hypocrisy, every athlete, even the French ones, flew there
As will millions of tourists.
There is going to come a time, sooner rather than later where the Olympics won't matter. And not onl ydue to apathy as people generally won't care about them.
But because no one who looks like the people used to that are supposedly from those countries that won medals actually looks like they're from there anymore.
The Olympics is a slow moving machine. It may take a few more summer and winter ones to happen before people start to notice. But they will. And they'll stop caring. Which means they'll stop watching. And that'll affect the money. No reason to do it without money and sponsorships and ads. Otherwise it'll cost the hosting country hundreds of millions more. Maybe even a billion.
And that'll be payed by the people that live there, slowly.
As an example, it took Montreal nearly 40 years to pay off their Summer Olympics that took place back in 1976. Meanwhile the olympic village went so unused and into disrepair they had to demolish it, and the stadium they built was a laughing stock, as it slowly fell apart for decades. People refused to walk or drive in front of it as chunks of it fell off.
It's already happening. Look at opening ceremony numbers compared to closing ceremony numbers. Prior to 2016, the audience was roughly 1:1 or 4:3. In 2016 and 2020, it was 2:1 and 2024 is unlikely to break the pattern. Half the people who watched the opening ceremonies dropped off before the end, and you only drop off at that rate from apathy.
The only way they'll be able to save the ratings will be mandated bikinis during the women's competition. Men might still be fine the way they are since that's where the actual competition is
Mandated bikinis for the "women" will just mean seeing bulges and hairy chests.
Hey, show some respect for Beach Volleyball!
I sincerely hope that time comes before they come back to Utah, and completely fuck up my mountain ski town again.
It's not gonna happen that soon, but a man can dream.
Its funny when then argentinian team looks more french than the french team. Lawl.
So people at peak physical fitness shouldn’t have to follow the stupid rules - then why should normal humans?
Not anymore if they got jabbed judging from how many of em have been dropping dead.
Considering all the Died Suddenly athletes in domestic sports but nothing out of the olympic ones, I'm pretty convinced the latter were given saline.
I don't know why an international pissing competition is so important to the cathedral, but for whatever reason it is.
It lets them gamble against each-other, everyone loves gambling, even Them.
I would bet you money that this is actually a plot to fuck over the non-French athletes into staying in sweltering heat; while the French athletes hang out in AC somewhere else.
Algerians are used to heat.
So how many are going to die of because of;
A: Actual weather conditions because of no AC, and being pushed too much in the heat.
B: "Suddenlies", aka having taken some kind of Covid shot.
C: Diversification, because one thing large crowds lead to is more crime.
D: All of the above!
It might actually be health concerns as you have people pushing their bodies to the limits for this competition and so why risk them even further to grandstand on an issue that is getting more unpopular thanks to activists?
I get the hypocrisy of the portable AC units, but we gotta recognise the retardation of the French setting it up like this.