It's another Olympic year, and as athletes around the world make their final push to compete in the quadrennial top-level event, the IOC has revealed that there may be a change that will come as a surprise!
It has been learned that IOC President Thomas Bach recently revealed in an interview with AFP that because of the impact of global warming, the time for holding the Summer Olympics in the future will have to be shifted from the traditional July and August months to the cooler autumn!
However, the IOC's reasoning is also very realistic, because the current climate problem is imminent, there are frequent "La Niña" or "El Niño", the summer is getting hotter and hotter, and it is no longer the climate like the Summer Olympics in the past, and in a few decades, it will even be as hot as the Middle East! The 2022 Qatar Football World Cup was changed to winter because of the weather, and the World Cup is also one of the top events in the world.
In addition, winters are getting warmer, and the Winter Olympics are becoming more and more dependent on snow venues, so much so that in December last year, in order to fully consider the challenges posed by climate change to winter sports, the IOC even postponed the election of the 2030 Winter Olympics in order to study and provide solutions that can guarantee cold conditions, so that the climate problem has become a great threat to both the summer and winter Olympics!
And if the Olympics are held in the fall, in fact, the climate will be more pleasant, and it will even make it easier for athletes to break through themselves and achieve better results, which is the best of both worlds! However, the Paris Olympics will continue to be held in the summer, but the next one, maybe the opening time will also be adjusted, everyone speculates whether it will be?