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Record-Breaking Extreme Heat Forced Suspension Of Sunday's Olympic Track & Field Trials
• Zero Hedge"It's crazy. I wasn't expecting it to be this humid," a high jump competitor at the US Olympic track and field trials in Eugene, Oregon told the Associated Press over a blistering weekend of record Pacific Northwest temperatures.
At about 3pm on Sunday event officials declared the trials postponed for the day as temperatures soared past 105° F, causing at one point an athlete to be removed from the stadium in a wheelchair.
US Olympic Track & Field Trials in Eugene, Ore. get pushed to tonight as outside temperature gets as high as 110 degrees, track temperature approaches 150. pic.twitter.com/jaXptYYyfF
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) June 27, 2021