Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics organising committee test artificial snowfall to cool down spectators during a canoe event at Sea Forest Waterway in Tokyo, Japan September 13, 2019. REUTERS/Tim Kelly
TOKYO (Reuters) - Olympic officials used a snow machine to spray a crowd of volunteers with shaved ice and slush on Friday as they tried out ways to keep spectators cool at next year's summer games in Japan.
The fake snow arced high into the air before showering down at the trial in Tokyo - one of a series of measures being considered to combat humidity and temperatures that regularly top 30 Celsius (86 Fahrenheit) in July and August.
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