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Originally Posted by bus man
Is it just me, or did there seem to be little actual snow on the ground, other than the artificial stuff on the ski slopes? Whenever they'd show a wide view of the mountainous area, it seemed like there was hardly any snow on the ground. I noticed this at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics as well. Was this the case of a fluky winter with little snow, or is it that they picked places (like Sochi) that just don't get all that much snow? (I gotta hand it to the Russians, getting the IOC to pick a SUMMER resort city for the WINTER Olympics.)
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Originally Posted by oceangaia
Beijing snow was 100% artificial.
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The Olympics started off with almost total artificial snow, but they had a blizzard during the skiing events. Also remember that the Olympic events were held at three locations with the ski events at Yanqing and Taizicheng.
See
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/13/10804...ijing-olympics
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