'The human body adapts': Athletes prepare for hottest Olympics Games ever in Tokyo

These Olympics Games may be the hottest on record. Saturday afternoon, the mercury is expected to hit 34 degrees. Humidity levels of 59% will add to that, though these are at the lower end of what was predicted.

WEATHER WORN: Team ROC’s Svetlana Gomboeva is treated for heat exhaustion in the women’s individual ranking round of archery at Yumenoshima Park Archery Field. Picture: Justin Setterfield/ Getty Images

Jussi Viskari cut an unusual figure as he sat beside Sarah Keane and Peter Sherrard of the Olympic Federation of Ireland back in November 2019, but the Finnish businessman’s understated presence for that press conference in Dublin spoke volumes.

Elaymus Group, of which Viskari is chief executive, had been named as an official reseller of the OFI’s ticket allocation for the Tokyo Games. See where this is going? This was three years after the hullabaloo in Rio and that early-morning knock on Pat Hickey’s hotel door.