Paris 2024 organisers deny claims of two-tier Games in searing Olympic Village rooms

• Certain teams using paid-for air conditioning units
• Romania’s Bernadette Szocs: ‘It is too hot in the room’

The decision to forgo air conditioning in the athletes’ rooms in the Olympic Village in Paris had been made with the noblest intentions: to save the planet from the climate emergency.

But after receiving a slew of complaints and pivoting to allow national delegations to reserve mobile units at their own expense the organisers in Paris are facing accusations of creating a two-tier Games.

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