Most of the world’s cities will be unable to host the Olympic Games during summer in the coming decades as they blow past the threshold of safe humid heat

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These cities will be too hot for the Olympics by 2050 | CNN

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Nordics: "Finally, it's our time."
It's fine. I'm sure Qatar can just build a giant air conditioned city.
- But what about when the rate of migrants dying of heatstroke while constructing it outpaces the rate at which they can coercively import them
  What then
  
  as the last football world cup showed us, as long as fans conveniently ignore the truth of exploited workers and lap up the sporting spectacle, the troubles of construction labourers are nothing to worry about.
  
  Throw up their hands and say, "For a brief moment, we created a lot of value for our stakeholders."
IOC: "So, would you be interested in hosting the summer games in 2052?"
City below/above +/- 60° latitude: "Nah fam. We're all booked up boiling alive from now until forever. Maybe try Reykjavik? I hear they have comfortable, sub-100 weather year round, nowadays."
We can maybe do one more but everyone's naked
what about the winter games?
- There’s a good chance that those will become too hot for athletes to compete in in most cities (or their former sites) by a few decades later. Of course long before then, the Olympics will have stopped happening as the apocalypse takes hold for real.
  Ask me if I am joking, if you are unsure
- Even worse because you need a mountain with snow for the skiing, close to a city. That combination is harder to come by when snows worse.
we're all gonna be nocturnal.
Detroit has been nice all summer and could use the infrastructure investments.
Just move it to spring or fall.

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