Altitude sickness can be easily treated by descending immediately and allowing your body to acclimatise slowly.
At about 2, 800 metres above sea level, Quito is a great starting point to acclimatise.
Any amount of travel is tolerable if athletes are given enough time to acclimatise before and after games.
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What we're seeing now is more and more Europeans, like myself, going over to the US to acclimatise.
The consulting firms involved include Acclimatise, Oxfam America and BSR.
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United will have to acclimatise to the shock to the senses that accompany Thursday's Club World Cup semi-final against Gamba Osaka.
But the experiences gained so far indicate that people acclimatise very quickly.
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The year's delays and stumbles have helped acclimatise people to change.
The squad will train in the Austrian Alps at Bundessport und Freizeitzentrum from 12 May in a bid to acclimatise to conditions in the Far East.
"We're only a semi-pro team but we've arranged some training sessions for during the day to acclimatise to the heat we're getting here at the moment, " said Morgan.
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The additional 2, 000 troops that are now here only started arriving a few weeks ago, giving them little time to acclimatise and acquire local knowledge of the threats they may face.
On a day when they would normally be kicking off for their club sides, the players in Hope Powell's squad will be flying to Macau to acclimatise for the finals in China.
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Aside from an occasional lbw appeal, Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir seemed to acclimatise quickly to a Bangalore track that still looked full of runs - albeit with the odd bit of uneven bounce.
But the best place to stay, acclimatise, arrange your climb and enjoy the wonderful Ecuadorian estancia (ranch) ambience is Hacienda El Porvenir, set in the sparse, high country just outside the park.
In the run-up to the first game the Nigerians had been training in Durban - which is not a high-altitude venue - before travelling to Johannesburg on Friday, giving the squad only one day to acclimatise to the conditions.
McLaren's Jenson Button has revealed that he will be renting an apartment in Tokyo with his girlfriend Jessica Michibata for the next month to acclimatise to the humid conditions for Singapore as well as the upcoming races in Japan and Korea.
"We're offering those teams a chance to fly out of Europe, South America, Asia, acclimatise in Nairobi for a few days, do a bit of training, sight seeing, and then fly down for the world cup, it's only a four hour flight from Nairobi to Joburg, " he added.
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