Athletes Worry as ‘Winter' Disappears From Winter Olympics
It’s harder to hold World Cup events, because too much wind or too much snow or too little snow leads to postponements or cancellations.
A study recently published in “Current Issues in Tourism” projected that without a dramatic reduction of global emissions of greenhouse gases, only one of the previous 21 Winter Olympics sites would be able to reliably provide fair and safe conditions by the end of this century. The International Olympic Committee says it will contractually obligate future hosts to be climate positive. The Beijing Olympics are supposed to be climate neutral; all venues are expected to be powered by renewable energy, and four ice rinks will use natural CO2 technology for cooling, replacing the hydrofluorocarbons that do more damage to the ozone.
Airline travel required by the World Cup calendar weighs on two-time Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin, especially when she thinks about stretches such as the one that carried female racers from Finland to Vermont to Canada to Switzerland across three weeks in November and December.
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