Rugby: 'Waste sweat' and humidity a test for players at World Cup

TOKYO: This year's Rugby World Cup, the first to be held in Asia, will produce many unique challenges for the world's top players but one of the biggest might be Japan's varied climate.

According to Tokyo-based dermatologist Tomoko Fujimoto, an expert on perspiration, the earlier teams arrive in Japan to become accustomed with the climate the better. "It is possible that unless you are prepared enough, the glands will not be working properly by the time of a match."During England’s training camp in Treviso in July, where humidity was as high as 80-90 per cent, Mike Brown said the conditions were tough, complaining that the humidity did not allow sweat to evaporate as normal off the skin.

"In Japan, we have conditions such as high temperature and humidity and in case of typhoon season, humidity levels gets raised ... it is possible that temperature and humidity effect the controlling of body temperature for athletes."The World Cup is set to be one of the most tightly contested in history, not least because, for the first time, northern and southern hemisphere sides cannot claim a home advantage regarding weather and field conditions.

This will present challenges for teams like England, who will be based in Miyazaki, which boasts a subtropical climate, but play their first match against Tonga over 2,000 kilometres to the north in Sapporo.These dramatic changes in climate will be hard to deal with, Fujimoto believes."So, in order for your sweat glands to work, you need to train them."None of this is news to the rugby players at Nippon Sports Science University, who train throughout Tokyo's sweltering summer.

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