The Paris Olympic organizers had hoped their innovative self-cooling Olympic Village apartments would make air conditioning redundant, helping them to deliver the greenest Games in history.
But with temperatures sky-rocketing in the French capital, many delegations are taking no chances.
After a downpour during the opening ceremony and a wet weekend, France is now in the middle of a heat wave that pushed the mercury in Paris into the mid-30s Celsius on Tuesday.
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