Organisers of the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games say they’re paying shut consideration to long-term climate fashions in mild of hovering temperatures that would influence the occasion.

Subsequent yr’s Paris Video games will happen between 26 July and 11 August.

“We’re remaining very, very vigilant on temperature forecasts,” stated Paris 2024 chief Tony Estanguet.

An all-time excessive in France of 46C was recorded in 2019, whereas the nation skilled its hottest July on document final summer time.

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics noticed the marathon and strolling race occasions moved to the cooler metropolis of Sapporo, with summer time warmth within the Japan capital exceeding 30C.

Worldwide Olympic President Thomas Bach stated his organisation was in talks with the organisers of the 2024 Video games, whereas “the warmth mitigation measures utilized in Tokyo, which labored very nicely, can be accessible in Paris”.

He added: “We’ve requested our future host fee of each summer time and winter video games two years in the past to look into this matter and to deal with the implications of local weather change to the organisation of worldwide sport.

“After all a particular focus is winter sport, to start with, as a result of there it’s the obvious already, nevertheless it additionally applies to summer time sports activities. So these research and deliberations are below manner.”

A contingency plan is in place to regulate schedules, however a spokesman for Paris 2024 stated there aren’t any plans to vary the placement of any occasions.