'No AC' ambition for Paris Olympic village melts away

The complex in a northern suburb of Paris was built as a showcase of environmentally friendly technology and has a geothermal cooling system that uses cool water pumped from deep beneath the ground. But the lack of air-conditioning has long worried some national Olympic teams, whose athletes are concerned about missing sleep, particularly given the summer heat waves suffered by Paris in recent years. Organisers devised a compromise that enabled teams to order portable air-conditioning units at their own expense...