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    It's So Hot In Tokyo That Officials Are Having To Reschedule The Tennis Matches

    Officials say they will start Olympic matches in the afternoons to avoid some of the sweltering heat that forced one player to withdraw from her match and another to warn a judge, "I can die."
    by Joe Hernandez Jul 28, 2021 1 minute
    Russia's Daniil Medvedev returns the ball to Italy's Fabio Fognini during their third-round match Wednesday at the Tokyo Olympics.

    On Wednesday, the heat was so intense in Tokyo that Spanish tennis player Paula Badosa got heatstroke during her quarterfinal against Marketa Vondrousova and retired from the match, leaving the court in a wheelchair.

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