CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 18Thermoregulation and physiological responsesClimate Change and Health ImpactsTravel-related health issues

Meteorological Risks in Doha 2019 Athletics World Championships: Health Considerations From Organizers

Open access
Bermon, Stéphane, Adami, Paolo Emilio·2019·Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
DOI 10.3389/fspor.2019.00058PMC PMC7739798
Open this paper in CoChat — free accountOpen PDF

Abstract

The Doha 2019 IAAF World Championships represent a challenge for athletes, workforce and spectators who could compete, work or attend under likely extreme meteorological conditions. This short article summarizes the methodology used by the IAAF and the Local Organizing Committee doctors to analyze and reduce risks, while complying as much as possible with existing recommendations or policies. The main steps to be completed are identification and description of weather-related risks, description and whenever possible testing of all their possible mitigation measures during test events, revision of these risks once mitigation implemented, and finally drafting a contingency plan for remaining exceptional and impactful occurrences. Such risk management methodology could apply to other sports, ideally from the host city selection to the delivery of the competitive event.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.3389/fspor.2019.00058

Cites

11 of 11 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Sports tourists spectating events are often at greater risks to thermal stress than athletes.

    “Sports tourists spectating events are often at greater risks to thermal stress than athletes. For instance, heat was observed 15 °C higher outside the stadium during the IAAF World Championships than inside the stadium where competition occurred (Bermon and Adami 2019).”

    From Forecasting thermal stress for sports tourists at the 2026 FIFA World Cup (2024) · cites this paper as Bermon and Adami 2019

    The Assessment of the Meteorological Risks section says spectators exposed to heat for a long time could suffer non-exertional heat stroke. It also describes potentially very high heat-related risks for athletes, but does not say spectators are often at greater risk than athletes. Page numbers are unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.86)

    Experimental — accuracy not yet measured

  • Heat was observed 15 °C higher outside the stadium during the IAAF World Championships than inside the stadium where competition occurred.

    “For instance, heat was observed 15 °C higher outside the stadium during the IAAF World Championships than inside the stadium where competition occurred (Bermon and Adami 2019).”

    From Forecasting thermal stress for sports tourists at the 2026 FIFA World Cup (2024) · cites this paper as Bermon and Adami 2019

    The Meteorological Risks Mitigation Strategy section says the stadium could be adjusted to a WBGT as low as 20°C while outdoor WBGT was above 35°C, supporting a potential difference of at least 15°C. It does not report that this difference was observed during the Championships; it says the stadium would be set to 23–25°C WBGT. No page number is available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.90)

    Experimental — accuracy not yet measured

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Research works printed but not linked: 1

  1. Bartlett K. S. (2004). Dust storm forecasting for Al Udeid Ab, Qatar: an empirical analysis (Master thesis), Air Force Institute of Technology, OH, United States.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Related

Authors
Bermon, S., & Adami, P. E.
Affiliations
  • Université Côte d'Azur (FR)
  • Foro Italico University of Rome (IT)
Corresponding author
Bermon, Stéphane
ORCID
Venue
Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
Publisher
Frontiers Media SA
Published
2019-11-12
Volume
1
Pages
58-58
ISSN
2624-9367 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.3389/fspor.2019.00058
PMC
PMC7739798
OpenAlex
W2985648412
Cited by
18
References
11
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2
FWCI
0.86
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Frontiers in Sports and Active Living (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome) (submittedVersion)
  • INFM-OAR (INFN Catania) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Thermoregulation and physiological responses
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Travel-related health issues
Keywords
extreme weather events, heat stress, contingency planning, athlete health, host city selection

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review