The Impact of Hospitality on Air Quality at a Major Sporting Event.

ABSTRACT: Large scale sporting and cultural events attract many spectators to a single site, leading to changed emissions and potentially creating local air pollution hot spots. Here, we monitored the air quality during the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, held from July 28th to August 8th, 2022, with 323,000 spectators attending the athletics events, including during the opening and closing ceremonies at the (open air) Alexander Stadium in Birmingham, UK. Particulate (PM_2.5 and PM₁₀) concentrations in fan areas around the stadium peaked ahead of the athletics events and opening and closing ceremonies with PM_2.5 concentrations up to 10 times higher than at nearby urban background monitoring stations. For a spectator attending a full day of events at Alexander Stad

SUBMITTER: Acton WJF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12910594 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature