Japan heatwave will be challenge for athletes - Coe

Athletes competing astatine nan World Championships successful Tokyo will look "heat challenges", says World Athletics president Sebastian Coe.

The nine-day tourney featuring nan world's biggest way and section stars originates connected Saturday.

Japan has endured its hottest summertime since records began successful 1898, pinch temperatures 2.36C supra average.

The opening day, which will big nan 35km men's and women's title walk, is forecast to beryllium 32C.

"I don't deliberation it's immoderate awesome secret, we do person immoderate power challenges successful Tokyo," said Coe.

"We had them really astatine nan clip of nan Games successful 2021."

However, dissimilar during nan pandemic-delayed Games successful Japan 4 years ago, nan marathon and title locomotion events will stay successful Tokyo.

In 2021, some events were moved to nan cooler bluish metropolis of Sapporo owed to power concerns.

Both nan men's and women's title walks are scheduled to commencement astatine 8:00am section clip connected Saturday successful a bid to hit nan heat.

In an Instagram station connected Tuesday,, external Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson uploaded a photograph from her Japanese training guidelines pinch nan caption: "Hot retired here".

Coe says nan conflict against ambiance alteration has fallen connected sports leaders aft inaction from governments.

"Governments person not stepped up to nan sheet and athletics is going to person to return immoderate unilateral judgments and decisions here," added Coe.

"And we person reflected successful nan past, if we are committed to jock welfare, past we should astir apt beryllium openly committed to that."