OT: Rio 2016

[Björnke von Gierke]

Brasil is a tropical country. what we in europe call "summer" is their  
temperature in "winter" (20-30 degrees celsius or so). If they'd do it  
in their geographical summer (nov-feb), they'd handicap all the  
european athletes with the 40+ temperatures and 99% humidity...

On 2 Oct 2009, at 19:15, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:

> in the Winter... Otherwise, all those athletes in their shorts are  
> going to freeze their butts off.