The athletics world Cup in Qatar has shown how problematic performance sport under enormous temperatures. The IOC wants to change the Olympic Marathon in 2020, from Tokyo to Sapporo – an open dispute has broken out.
The tensions between the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the city of Tokyo due to the planned relocation of the Marathon and Geherwettbewerbe at the Olympic Games in the coming year to take. Tokyo’s Governor Yuriko Koike required now by the IOC, a detailed explanation and justification of why the competitions in the North of Tokyo, located a cooler of Sapporo are to be installed. “It is my wish that the Marathon – and Geherwettbewerbe in Tokyo take place,” said Koike at the start of a three-day meeting with the Chairman of the IOC coordination Commission, John Coates.
Point Of Dispute Costs
The IOC had declared to the Olympic road competitions due to the extremely sultry summer heat in Tokyo to the cooler Sapporo outsource. As a justification for the plan change to the IOC’s Coates said the recent experience in the athletics world Cup in Qatar, where a significant number of marathon runners and walkers because of the extreme heat and the high humidity had to give up. And, although the race had already been in the slightly cooler night moved.
Extreme climate in Tokyo
In Tokyo, the summer is generally hot and humid. Sapporo, on Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido, was the 1972 games, will host the winter and has a much cooler summer climate than the million-metropolis of Tokyo. Governor Koike had given to recognize, in advance of the meeting with the IOC that the city will assume no cost for routing to Sapporo. You indicated that it was prepared to take legal action, because Tokyo had already been taken before the announcement by the IOC to take measures against the expected Extreme temperatures.
IPC/ck (dpa)