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Advanced Stadium Cooling:
Innovative Technology Coming
to the Qatar World Cup
Every stadium has it’s own unique form
and structure
The 2018 World Cup marked the
World Cup debut of using the
Video Assistant Referee, also
known as VAR, as the newest
technological innovation coming to the
stadiums. According to FIFA, the VAR
system had a success rate of 99.3 percent
and many football analysts have praised the
introduction of VAR. In their opinion, the
World Cup was a perfect example of how
technology can work well for football,
although it did show that there are some
risks involved in relying on the technology.
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In 2022, when the World Cup will be played
in Qatar, a newer and bigger technical
innovation will come to the stadiums. All
host stadiums will be air-conditioned,
making it doable to organize the World Cup
in a country with extreme heats. Since Qatar
was announced as the competition’s host in
December 2010, many have been critical of
the controversial choice wondering how an
event like the World Cup could be organized
in the desert.
In only one generation, Qatar has
transformed from a handful of poor fishing
villages into the richest country per capita
in the world. It turns out if you combine gas
revenues with foreign labor and the firm
hand of the ruling monarchy, a country can
be transformed rather quickly. Now, Qatar is
taking on one of the biggest sports events the
world has to offer.
Because of the extreme heat, revolutionary
cooling technology is going to be used at the 2022
World Cup in Qatar after tests proved everything
is working as it should at the proposed World Cup
stadiums. The development is an important step in
the build-up to the tournament, which has
courted controversy since Qatar was announced as
the competition’s host.
The 2022 tournament is therefore being held in
winter for the first time, to avoid the searing
summer heat. With temperatures averaging 42
degrees Celsius in summer, the decision was made
to move the dates of the World Cup to winter,
when temperatures around 30 degrees are to be
expected.