Tokyo Olympics announce brand new heat-prevention measure: 1,300 tons of ice soranews24.com

Other countermeasures include ice cream for volunteers.
With the 2020 Tokyo Olympics less than a year away, the burning question on everyone’s mind is: will anyone die from the excruciating heat, or just be hospitalized?
This is certainly a step up from fishing hats, but all this ice cream is indeed every bit as expensive as it sounds.
The previous budget for heat prevention stood at four billion yen (US$36M) split evenly between Tokyo and the Olympic organizers.
Taking the money into consideration, many online were less than impressed with the low-tech solutions such as of a bunch of ice.