TOKYO (Reuters) - Mist-spraying stations for Olympic horses and cooling vests for referees are among the tools organisers are rolling out for the Tokyo 2020 Games, where participants will face scorching heat and intense humidity - on top of a worsening pandemic.
While the immediate challenge of holding the Games amid the COVID-19 crisis has overshadowed almost all other concerns, heat has been a longstanding worry. Summer temperatures in Tokyo can spike to 35 degree Celsius or more.
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