Eighty communities have expressed interest in providing facilities for foreign athletes, who will arrive early to get acclimated to Georgia's wilting heat and humidity.

At dinnertime, he was still wearing his pinstriped slacks and white dress shirt, which billowed, untucked and unbuttoned, over his thin frame in the wilting heat.

It was perhaps surprising that the Irish pace didn't slack off much in the second half, given the wilting heat and humidity.

A few pedestrians stopped to applaud and cheer the men, who had to ask their color bearers, wearing desert camouflage, to slow down in the wilting heat.

We quickly realise that this is a waste of valuable energy in the wilting heat and resign ourselves to this new torture.

In the wilting heat of the kitchen, the printer was going nonstop, and the place had reached a sort of delirium.

She stepped out into the wilting heat and walked toward him, at the pace of one with no time to waste.

The soldiers who now stand guard in the wilting heat say they have been told their job is vital - ensuring that the oil and government revenues flow.

The temperature rose above 80 degrees on the rolling 26.2-mile course, which might have melted a runner not conditioned to such wilting heat.