‘We’re looking at losing 20% of Olympic nations’: how the climate crisis is changing sport

Athletics Kenya is worried about how the climate might shape the future of its country, let alone its sport. And it is not aloneThe drive from the tiny Eldoret airport to the town of Iten in the south-west corner of Kenya takes about an hour. It’s a winding unlit road with few road signs: you need to know where you’re going to get there. The town’s population isn’t known – there hasn’t been a census in more than a decade – but the local ­municipal au