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PARIS MAYOR REFUSES TO ALLOW AIR CONDITIONING IN 2024 OLYMPIC VILLAGE
Swim Swam ^ | 7 March 2023 | JAMES SUTHERLAND

Posted on 03/07/2023 3:50:21 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT

Accommodations might be far from optimal for the athletes competing at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.

After concerns were raised over the lack of air conditioning in the athletes’ village back in January, Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo doubled down on the idea last week.

The Olympic Village, currently under construction in the Saint-Denis area, was designed to have rooms six degrees cooler than the outdoor temperature in an effort to be environmentally friendly.

(Excerpt) Read more at swimswam.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Sports
KEYWORDS: 2024; ac; airconditioning; olympics; paris
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Those clever frogs! The local competitors will sleep cool at home and the rest will sweat it out.

Betting the Mayor has AC, I would not want her to croak like so many did a few summers back.

1 posted on 03/07/2023 3:50:21 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Pew la la!
2 posted on 03/07/2023 3:52:14 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Is this an effort to get them all to smell the same?


3 posted on 03/07/2023 3:52:15 PM PST by FLNittany (Autotune is jealous of Karen Carpenter)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

And the French women with unshaved armpits and no deodorant. Should be a blast. /s


4 posted on 03/07/2023 3:52:42 PM PST by Reno89519 (DeSantis or Sanders, Anyone But Trump in 2024. Time for Trump to Stand Aside and Retire.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Ah the Pepe Le Pew Olympics! Not that I’ll be watching or anything.


5 posted on 03/07/2023 3:53:35 PM PST by xp38
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To: DUMBGRUNT

That should make the French women, that don’t shave their armpits, even my attractive.


6 posted on 03/07/2023 3:53:40 PM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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7 posted on 03/07/2023 3:55:25 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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I'm tellin' ya. If you have the means to produce some of your own power it's best to do that. Before everybody else is scrambling to do the same.

An extended family member up in Canada is interested in trying to replicate solar like I have in Alabama. I told him it's almost certainly not practical for him, but we'll look at it when I get up there later this year. He does, however, have a small creek in his property that's almost always running (during the non-winter months) and empties into a pond, which drains fairly regularly to maintain a static level. We'll do the math on volume and head at the drain point to see if a pico hydro turbine is do-able to provide a lot of free power for him.

8 posted on 03/07/2023 3:58:27 PM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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Looks like her face already melted.


9 posted on 03/07/2023 3:59:31 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Hidalgo ,,,was a great movie BTW!!!

FRANCE IS DONE

10 posted on 03/07/2023 3:59:49 PM PST by Osage Orange
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To: DUMBGRUNT

IIRC, the last Paris Olympics was 1924, famous for Eric Liddell winning the 400 after refusing to run the 100 on a Sunday, leaving Harold Abrahams to win the 100, and Johnny Weissmuller bringing home three gold medals before becoming Tarzan alongside Maureen O’Sullivan’s Jane.

I don’t think air conditioning would hurt, a century later, but then I think, unlike the green idiots of Europe, who only react.


11 posted on 03/07/2023 4:02:20 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: HYPOCRACY

Just add broom, and adios...


12 posted on 03/07/2023 4:03:43 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Are they at least going to plant trees along the parade route so that the Germans don’t get sunburn when they do their victory parade?


13 posted on 03/07/2023 4:08:27 PM PST by Bernard (“the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." JFK 1-20-61)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Ah, the smell of garlic, urine, wino breath, and body odor on a hot & humid Paris afternoon. “Bienvenue, mes amis!”


14 posted on 03/07/2023 4:14:12 PM PST by twister881
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To: Tell It Right

There are a lot of winter months.


15 posted on 03/07/2023 4:16:35 PM PST by Hieronymus
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To: DUMBGRUNT

It’s the 21st Century, and too many Europeans have yet to subscribe to the benefits of soap, razors, and deodorant. The French are among the worst offenders.


16 posted on 03/07/2023 4:24:53 PM PST by twister881
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To: DUMBGRUNT

and now they’ll use more water ,LOL


17 posted on 03/07/2023 4:28:00 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: chajin

—”Paris Olympics was 1924, famous for Eric Liddell winning the 400 “

A great story/movie... now I have the theme playing in my head!
That is fine because I enjoy it and will find Vangelis and play it over my headphones.

Vangelis - Chariots Of Fire
https://youtu.be/8a-HfNE3EIo

Thank you!


18 posted on 03/07/2023 4:31:49 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last messa)
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designed to have rooms six degrees cooler than the outdoor temperature

C or F degrees, I wonder.....

19 posted on 03/07/2023 4:34:27 PM PST by Rio
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To: Tell It Right

A guy a couple blocks from me put in a micro wind turbine along his fence adjacent to the sidewalk. It sticks up maybe ten feet above the top of the fence. It rarely turns and, when it does, it probably makes 100 watts at best (probably 25 - 50 is more like it).

I’m sure the owner is very smug and self-satisfied with his virtue-signaling toy, but what colossal waste of money!


20 posted on 03/07/2023 4:39:13 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (There is lots of money and power in Green Communism and we all know where Communism ends.)
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