Golf Olympic test tournament to strengthen lightning countermeasures in addition to heat, August 16 20:24
Next year's Tokyo Olympic golf test tournament will be held at Kasumigaseki Country Club, which will be the venue, and the organizing committee of the tournament will focus on countermeasures against lightning as well as heat, and will increase the number of lightning rods.
Golf for the Tokyo Olympics is scheduled for both men and women at the Kasumigaseki Country Club in Kawagoe City, Saitama Prefecture, and the Japan Junior Golf Championship held at the same venue for three days until the 16th was the test tournament.
In the tournament, the system that calculates the distance from the ball hit by the player to the cup and the volunteers attached to each group send the score for each player's hall on a small terminal to be used for TV broadcasting and Internet distribution in production I confirmed the procedure to do.
Since golf is played outdoors for a long time, heat countermeasures are also an issue, and the staff who go around the course with the athletes were given vests with cold insulation on the back and side parts, A large outdoor air conditioner was installed in the tent where the audience rested.
In addition, the tournament was suspended three times due to the approach of thunderclouds on the first day, and the Organizing Committee emphasizes measures against lightning.
The course used at the Olympics has seven huts with lightning rods to allow spectators to evacuate, but the Organizing Committee has a policy of installing lightning rods in temporary rest areas that will be set up in production.
“We would like to consider what kind of preparations should be made after verifying the effects of the heat countermeasures implemented this time, including lightning and evacuation guidance plans. I want to make a firm measure. "