{"id":19559,"date":"2025-09-09T22:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T22:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/world-athletics-championship-japan-heatwave-will-be-challenge-for-athletes-says-sebastian-coe\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T22:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T22:07:13","slug":"world-athletics-championship-japan-heatwave-will-be-challenge-for-athletes-says-sebastian-coe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/world-athletics-championship-japan-heatwave-will-be-challenge-for-athletes-says-sebastian-coe\/","title":{"rendered":"World Athletics Championship: Japan heatwave will be challenge for athletes, says Sebastian Coe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, unlike during the pandemic-delayed Games in Japan four years ago, the marathon and race walk events will remain in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2021, both events were moved to the cooler northern city of Sapporo due to heat concerns. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s race walks are scheduled to start at 8:00am local time on Saturday in a bid to beat the heat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DOYMzAQiK5j\/?img_index=1\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Instagram post on Tuesday,<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson uploaded a photo from her Japanese training base with the caption: &#8220;Hot out here&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Coe says the battle against climate change has fallen on sports leaders after inaction from governments. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Governments have not stepped up to the plate and sport is going to have to take some unilateral judgments and decisions here,&#8221; added Coe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And we have reflected in the past, if we are committed to athlete welfare, then we should probably be openly committed to that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/articles\/cx23vy582q6o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>However, unlike during the pandemic-delayed Games in Japan four years ago, the marathon and race walk events will remain in Tokyo. In 2021, both events were moved to the cooler northern city of Sapporo due to heat concerns. Both the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s race walks are scheduled to start at 8:00am local time on Saturday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19561,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19559\/revisions\/19561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}