China’s delegation to the 2024 Summer Olympics denied bringing air conditioning units to Paris on Thursday after videos appearing to show Chinese staffers packing planes with hundreds of units surfaced on China’s Douyin (Tiktok) social media application.
Reports that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) approved sending its Olympians to France with their own air conditioning units followed months of reports of conflict between Paris Olympics organizers and various international delegations. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has promised to host the “greenest ever Games” and has boasted extensive use of recycled materials, plant-based athlete menus, and a “geothermal cooling” system in Olympic Village rooms instead of standard air conditioning. Multiple delegations protested, and some, including Western nations, announced they would plan to pack their own air conditioning units, arguing that depriving athletes of adequate cooling in the extreme French summer heat is a liability for performance and potentially dangerous.
While the Chinese team did not protest as vocally as other delegations, videos surfacing on Douyin, the regime-controlled version of TikTok that is available only in China, showed the delegation diligently packing its airplane with what appeared to be air conditioning units. The South China Morning Post — a Hong Kong-based newspaper that the regime-friendly megacorporation Alibaba owns — reported definitively on July 17 that “China has supplied its athletes with AC units, bypassing the organisers’ carbon emission reduction efforts.” […]
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