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Traum · 02-06-2022, 06:01 PM

Is it appropriate to discuss the indigenous-led bid to host the 2030 Winter Olympics here in this thread?

An issue that has come up in a couple of news reports regarding the current Beijing Winter Olympics is availability of snow to support the outdoor events. The TL;DR version of this story is -- Beijing and the nearby vicinity is actually a very poor location to support outdoor winter sports because it doesn't really have enough snow. Man-made snow is used extensively as a result, and that in turn results in a a gob ton of issues, including but not limited to athletes complaining about the quality of the man-made snow, as well as the ethical issues on competition for drinking water and how (non-green) energy intensive it is to create that man-made snow.

Thinking back to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, we ran into a similar issue as well because the weather didn't cooperate during the time when the Olympics was held. Given the myriad of climate-related issues that we ran into last year, and the known projection that the overall global temperatures are going to rise, it just adds to another viability problem for us to host the Winter Olympics again.

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Traum RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Paradise, BC Posts: 8,377 Thanked 8,144 Times in 3,386 Posts Failed 262 Times in 148 Posts	Is it appropriate to discuss the indigenous-led bid to host the 2030 Winter Olympics here in this thread? An issue that has come up in a couple of news reports regarding the current Beijing Winter Olympics is availability of snow to support the outdoor events. The TL;DR version of this story is -- Beijing and the nearby vicinity is actually a very poor location to support outdoor winter sports because it doesn't really have enough snow. Man-made snow is used extensively as a result, and that in turn results in a a gob ton of issues, including but not limited to athletes complaining about the quality of the man-made snow, as well as the ethical issues on competition for drinking water and how (non-green) energy intensive it is to create that man-made snow. Thinking back to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, we ran into a similar issue as well because the weather didn't cooperate during the time when the Olympics was held. Given the myriad of climate-related issues that we ran into last year, and the known projection that the overall global temperatures are going to rise, it just adds to another viability problem for us to host the Winter Olympics again.