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How climate change threatens the Winter Olympics' future
The Winter Olympics is an adrenaline rush as athletes fly down snow-covered ski slopes, luge tracks and over the ice at breakneck speeds and with grace. When the first Olympic Winter Games were held in Chamonix, France, in 1924, all 16 events took place outdoors. The athletes relied on natural snow for ski runs and freezing temperatures for ice rinks.
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The Olympics' artificial snow requires the equivalent of a day's worth of drinking water for 900 million people. Experts say it's the unfortunate future of winter sports.
When it comes to hosting the Winter Olympics, Beijing has a major problem: no snow. So in 2018, the Chinese capital recruited an army of machines — 100 snow generators and 300 snow guns — to fill its arid mountainsides with fake snow for the world's top athletes. This solution isn't unique to Beijing. The snow for the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia, was 80% artificial, and Pyeongchang's snow in 2018 was more than 90% synthetic.
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White, in 19th after fall, rallies into halfpipe final
Shaun White let up just the tiniest bit as he jerked his body around for a trick -- his signature trick, a trick he has landed without a hitch hundreds of times before. The next thing he knew, he said was thinking, "Wow, I only have one more chance to get this done."
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US-born Figure Skater Zhu Yi Slammed Online After Falling in Olympic Debut for China
American-born figure skater Zhu Yi fell several times and failed to land a jump during her Olympic debut for Team China, sparking backlash on Chinese social media.
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Shaun White says 2022 Olympics will be his final competition
White, competing at his fifth Olympics, had already said 2022 would be his last appearance on the Games stage.
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Olympics Ratings Plummet To All-Time Low On Opening Night
The 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing are off to anything but a roaring start, with viewership down to an all-time low. Thursday’s primetime coverage averaged just 7.25 million viewers on NBC. The previous low was the 8.5 million that tuned in for the final night of competition at last year’s Summer Olympics in Tokyo, per Sports Media Watch.
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Familiar faces, unfamiliar names as China takes to the ice
Growing up Jake Chelios and Jeremy Smith might have dreamed of playing for the United States men's Olympic ice hockey team but instead will faceoff against them at the Beijing Winter Games, coming to the rescue of a China squad in need of help.
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Guest opinion: Companies sponsoring Olympics enable China's atrocities
As China prepares to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, Beijing recently made a stunning announcement. Any athlete speaking out “against Chinese laws and regulations” will be subject to “punishment.” Beijing claims it’s an “innocent party,” but the threat to athletes is just the latest act by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) — and proves it has much to hide.
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Rising temperatures threaten future of Winter Olympics, say experts
Only one of 21 previous locations would be able to reliably host Games in future if emissions remain on current path, study shows
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China’s threat to ‘punish’ Olympic athletes for free speech ‘very concerning’, Australia says
Sports minister Richard Colbeck says Australia opposes advisory on political comments from Beijing Winter Olympics committee
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Unlike Tokyo Olympics, U.S. Olympians are 100 percent vaccinated ahead of Beijing games
All of the about 240 athletes set to take part in next month's Beijing Olympics are fully vaccinated, Team USA's top doctor confirmed Thursday.
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Athletes warned about speaking out against China at Winter Olympics
Attendees of the Winter Olympics in Beijing have been told to be aware of the ‘Orwellian surveillance state’
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Team USA tells athletes not to take their phones to Olympics due to security fears, report says
They're being encouraged to use burner phones instead.
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Is China ready to host the Winter Olympics?
With less than four weeks to go, China is struggling to enforce its strict zero-covid policy, manufacture enough snow for the events and deal with a diplomatic boycott from the United States and its allies.
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NHL commissioner Bettman has asked to move hockey to Summer Olympics
The NHL's commissioner stated that he's pursued the idea of having hockey added to the Summer Games.
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NHL officially announces players won't attend Beijing Olympics
NHL players will not be attending the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, the league announced Wednesday.
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U.S. Will Not Send Government Officials to Beijing Olympics
The United States will not send government officials to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, a slap at China for human rights abuses. The diplomatic boycott allows American athletes to compete, but it is seen as an affront and one of President Biden’s most public condemnations of Beijing. China said it would respond with “resolute countermeasures.”
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Australia joins diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics
Australia will join the United States in a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Wednesday, a decision that risks souring already bitter bilateral relations.
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China says Winter Olympics will proceed as planned despite Omicron challenge
China expects to hold the 2022 Winter Olympics "smoothly" and on schedule, despite challenges posed by the emergence of the new Omicron coronavirus variant, foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a regular daily briefing on Tuesday.
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Biden says U.S. considering diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics
The United States is considering a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics, President Joe Biden confirmed on Thursday, a move that would be aimed at protesting China's human rights record, including what Washington says is genocide against minority Muslims.
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