Good article, with many areas of concern for the sporting world, about how increasing temperatures are affecting sporting events, and how they may affect them even more in the future.
Athlete vs. heat
"The ACSM [American College of Sports Medicine] recommends halting any training and practice activities at 90 degrees. That’s a familiar temperature in the Mojave Desert, but Grundstein, the Georgia climatologist, led a 2013 study that suggests the entire country will be experiencing more dangerously hot days in the future and the sports world needs to ready itself.Get used to that concept, because its reality is coming.
“Expected climate change will lead to a considerable increase in the frequency of days with conditions deemed unsuitable for sports activity across much of the U.S.,” the study found.
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