Losing a bridge to understanding: Sports’ great unifying role is debased
It may be just coincidental that as parts of the country were battered by Lorenzo yesterday Ireland’s rugby players made unexpectedly heavy weather of beating Russia in the tremendous heat and draining humidity in Kobe’s sweatbox to keep the World Cup dream alive. Weather, or more accurately extreme weather, is now a regular feature of our lives. It is, increasingly, a factor in death too.
According to The Guardian migrant labourers are being worked to death in searing temperatures in Qatar. It has been estimated that hundreds have died from heat stress working on projects related to the Fifa 2022 World Cup. This summer, hundreds of thousands of migrant workers struggled in temperatures of up to 45C for up to 10 hours a day.
