Olympic athletes in Alpine skiing and other snow dependent sports worry as they see winters disappearing. Ski racers who will compete entirely on manufactured snow during the Beijing Games know that global warming is threatening the future of their sport.
adjacent hills that were brown and barren
It’s harder to find real snow anywhere, so competition increasingly comes on machine-made snow, which has its own deleterious effects on the environment. While the high speeds, steep inclines and sharp angles make danger a constant presence in Alpine skiing, no matter what sort of stuff is underfoot,because the snow created by people produces harder, slicker tracks.
Researchers from Austria, Canada and the U.S. determined that even with emissions on the lower end of the scale, just three of 12 European cities that have hosted Winter Games would be a reliable site by the 2050s. He deals with warmer-and-later-than-they-used-to-be winters in Colorado and Vermont that make staging World Cup races a challenge — and with drought conditions that affect his farm.
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