Olympics-Chilled athletes embrace strategies to beat Paris heat

FILE PHOTO: Athletics - World Athletics Championships - Doha 2019 - Men's 50 Kilometres Race Walk - Doha, Qatar - September 29, 2019 Canada's Evan Dunfee poses as he celebrates winning bronze REUTERS/Aleksandra Szmigiel/File Photo

MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - While most of his rivals prepared for the 50 kilometre race walk at the 2019 Doha world championships by warming up in full track suits in the 32 degrees Celsius heat, Evan Dunfee did the polar opposite.

The 33-year-old Canadian spent the minutes before the race immersed in an ice bath trying to lower his core temperature before racing in the Persian Gulf.