The chief medical officer at the Australian Open has defended criticism
of the competition's "extreme heat policy" after Jamie Murray was
treated for heatstroke.
Play was suspended on uncovered courts for more than four hours on
Thursday as temperatures breached 40C for a third consecutive day.
But Dr Tim Wood insisted the players' health was not being compromised.
“We evolved on the high plains of Africa chasing antelope for eight
hours under these conditions,” he said.
Nice contemporary and relevant point made by the doc there...... we haven’t
chased antelope on the African plains for quite a while now.
That piss poor attempt at an excuse and the fact that play was stopped
is basically an admission that the medical team got it WRONG! It’s fairly
obvious that play should have been stopped long before today.
All the players have been saying that it’s almost
impossible to play in that kind of heat, one even thought he was going to die and
a ball boy collapsed, but despite all this the medical team thought everything
was fine and dandy.
Tell you what as a PR stunt to prove their point all the medical team
should play at least an hour’s tennis in the middle of the day in 40C+ heat to
show clearly to everyone just how ‘safe’ it is.
I know the organisers have a schedule to keep to but it’s amazing just
how expendable they think the players are because they’ve almost been forced
into calling play off for a bit.
Why is it that we have evolved to the point where it takes people’s
lives to be in danger before we can be bothered to do anything about it?
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