{"id":300104,"date":"2025-11-28T21:04:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T21:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/rapidly-warming-climate-creating-new-barriers-for-top-athletes\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T21:04:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T21:04:53","slug":"rapidly-warming-climate-creating-new-barriers-for-top-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/rapidly-warming-climate-creating-new-barriers-for-top-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapidly warming climate creating new barriers for top athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/CGoaN50S3HM\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Rapidly warming climate creating new barriers for top athletes\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CGoaN50S3HM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Strength, skill and endurance &#8211; that&#8217;s what it takes to become a champion at competitive sports. <\/p>\n<p>But our heating planet means there are more fundamental barriers to overcome.  Cooling breaks, ice packs and cold towels are becoming the norm. <\/p>\n<p>Increasingly, the records in danger of being broken are extreme high temperatures &#8211; sometimes soaring above 47 Celsius. <\/p>\n<p>So how will athletes cope as the climate becomes ever hotter? <\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\nGet more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/<br \/>\nSubscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<br \/>\nFollow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strength, skill and endurance &#8211; that&#8217;s what it takes to become a champion at competitive sports. But our heating planet means there are more fundamental barriers to overcome. Cooling breaks, ice packs and cold towels are becoming the norm. Increasingly, the records in danger of being broken are extreme high temperatures &#8211; sometimes soaring above [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":300105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128813],"tags":[148416,148415,138817],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-300104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-channel-4-news","tag-endurance","tag-skill","tag-strength"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rapidly warming climate creating new barriers for top athletes | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Rapidly warming climate creating new barriers for top athletes for free, here on News ISC. 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