The African Handball Confederation (AHBC) has announced that Angola will host the women’s pre-Olympic tournament from October 10 to 12 ahead of qualification for the Olympic Games 2024 in Paris. The decision was announced at the latest meeting of the AHBC executive committee, adding that a delegation of inspectors from the governing body of African handball is expected in Angola on March 10-12.

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On Thursday in Luanda, ANGOP learned that the AHBC team will come to the country to study the conditions of the hosting, transport and accommodation of the competing teams. The event will feature the first four qualifying teams from last year’s African Championship (2022) in Dakar, Senegal.

These are Angola, Senegal, Congo and Cameroon. This is the third time the country has hosted such an event after hosting the Athens 2003 Olympics (Greece) and accessing the London 2015 Olympics (England). Angola is achieving its eighth presence after Atlanta 1996), Sydney 2000), Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, London 2012), Rio de Janeiro 2016 and Tokyo 2020.

Handball venues confirmed for Paris 2024 with arenas in Lille and the capital

Arena 6 of South Paris and Stade Pierre-Mauroy in Lille have been approved as handball venues for the 2024 Olympic Games in the French capital. South Paris Arena 6 is part of the Paris Expo, an exhibition and convention center that is one of the most active in Europe.

On its 35 hectares and 228,000 square meters of exhibition halls and eight pavilions, the exhibition welcomes more than 7.5 million tourists annually and as a result is the most visited attraction of its kind in France. It is due to host the preliminaries in Paris 2024 and also host weightlifting before handball at the Paralympics.

For handball, it must accommodate between 7,300 and 7,800 people. The playoffs of the men’s and women’s tournaments are scheduled to be held at the Stade Pierre-Mauroy. Opened in 2012, it has a retractable roof, seats 50,186 and is home to the Lille OSC football team, which became Ligue 1 champions in 2021.

In addition to football, it has also hosted handball, basketball, tennis and rugby competitions in the past. He hosted three matches in the 2017 IHF Men’s Handball World Championship, setting a record crowd of 28,010 in the quarter-final between France and Sweden, which was won by the hosts en route to winning the trophy.

The Stade Pierre-Mauroy is also set to host basketball games in Paris 2024 after lengthy negotiations. It was eventually approved as the venue for major international competitions. The arena set a European basketball game attendance record with 27,372 spectators at the EuroBasket final in 2015.

Paris 2024 aims to keep Olympians, Paralympians cool without air conditioners

Organizers plan to use a water-cooling system under the Athletes’ Village – much like the one that helped the Louvre weather the sweltering heat wave that broke records last year – to control the temperature for the Olympians and Paralympians who are stationed there.

The decision is part of the organizing committee’s goal to cut the carbon footprint of the Olympic Paris Games by half and host the greenest Olympics to date by installing special technology that uses natural sources to keep everyone cool even during potential heatwaves. You can also sell your Olympic Tickets on our online platform xchangetickets.com.

“I want the Olympic Paris to be environmentally exemplary, said Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, who has decided to fight climate change with an ambitious action plan to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and turn the City of Lights into carbon. neutral by 2050.”

Compared to a conventional project, the Athletes’ Village’s carbon footprint will be reduced by 45% during the construction phase and throughout the Olympic cycle, she said.

For two months, from July to September 2024, the Athletes’ Village north of Paris will host 15,600 athletes and sports officials during the Olympic Games and 9,000 athletes and their support teams during the Paralympic Games. After the games, the 50-hectare (125-acre) site next to the River Seine in the popular Saint-Denis neighborhood will become a green, zero-carbon residential and commercial area with 6,000 residents. those who move as early as 2025.

In anticipation of the heat, the organizers studied the heat in the Athletes’ Village quarter by quarter. They simulated the conditions in the parts of the room most exposed to the sun and tested the efficiency of the cooling system to keep the room temperature between 23 and 26 degrees Celsius (73 and 79 degrees Fahrenheit).

The geothermal energy system will ensure that temperatures in athletes’ apartments in the suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis do not rise above 26 degrees Celsius (79 degrees Fahrenheit) at night, including during potential heat waves, said Laurent Michaud, director of the Olympic 2024 and Paralympic Communities.

He said the organizers conducted the tests in rooms located on the upper floors of the residences, facing south and exposed to direct sunlight from two sides. The direction of the winds in the region and the water temperature in the Seine were also taken into account. They worked closely with the French National Meteorological Agency to develop temperature forecasts.

“Even though the outdoor temperature reaches 41 degrees Celsius (106 degrees Fahrenheit), in most of these rooms we had a temperature of 28 degrees (82 degrees Fahrenheit), Michaud told the Associated Press, detailing the results of thermal simulation. waves. We clearly had lower temperatures in other rooms.”

In addition to underfloor cooling, insulation built into buildings will allow occupants to keep the cold they get at night during the day, Michaud says. To keep the inside cool, athletes will have to follow some basic rules, he said, including making sure window blinds are closed during the day.

Laurent Monnet, who is in charge of green crossing at Saint-Denis City Hall, the northern suburb of Paris where the main Olympic village will be located, said all rooms should be 6 degrees Celsius (11 degrees Fahrenheit) cooler than outside. without AC unit. While some Olympic 2024 hopefuls have already raised concerns about the lack of air conditioning, Monnet said athletes need to adapt and do their part to fight climate change.

“We need athletes to lead by example when they use buildings, Monet said. We can build the most virtuous village we want, and how it is used will affect our carbon footprint.”

Eliud Kipchoge, two-time Olympic champion and world marathon record holder, supported the Paris Plan for Sustainable Development. The Kenyan is one of the most vocal advocates of environmental justice in sport and has repeatedly sounded the alarm about climate change and the impact of global warming.

It’s a good idea because we all need to cut our carbon footprint, Kipchoge told AP. He called on fellow athletes to help fight climate change by reducing their carbon footprint during competition, training and their lives in general because we are all about to go through the same scenario.

The Paris 2024 organizers have contacted the national Olympic committees and said they will have the option to install their own AC units in certain cases and provided the units meet the organizing committee’s technical criteria.

Most national Olympic officials reacted to plans to keep their athletes cool during the Summer Games with a wait-and-see attitude. Some Olympic officials have not ruled out bringing their own air conditioners to France or paying for them locally, depending on the weather at the time.

The Australian Olympic Committee said it will be monitoring weather conditions in Paris 2024 in the coming year to ensure optimal high-performance conditions for our athletes, including temperature and humidity reductions that may be required.

Michaud, the director of the Olympic Village, said organizers want to be kind to the environment, but not endanger the health of athletes. Some athletes, especially in Paralympic events, have difficulty regulating their body’s core temperature and if they reside in rooms in which it proves impossible to keep at 26 degrees Celsius (79 degrees Fahrenheit) at night, national delegations will be able to install a portable AC system.

Michaud said this would be on a case-by-case basis and for the health and safety of the athletes, adding that instead of traditional air conditioners, fans could be installed to evaporate water droplets. Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, is strongly opposed to turning next year’s event into the Bring Your Air Conditioner Olympic 2024 program, barring a health exception.

“I can assure you that we will not change course and that there will be no changes in the air conditioning program of the village, Hidalgo said. Regarding the option for the organizers to provide the national teams with an additional cooling mechanism, she said: I am against it. We have to live up to our goals.”

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