Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics daily briefing: real snow causes chaos
Today in a nutshell: Actual real snow arrived suddenly in Beijing and disrupted events
Eileen Gu Sport News
‘I really couldn’t see’: Heavy snow disrupts Beijing Olympics
A worker shovels snow in preparation for freestyle ski and snowboard events at Genting Snow Park prior to the 2022 Winter Olympics, in Zhangjiakou, China, Jan. 31, 2022.
Olympics - Ice hockey - Slovakian teen turns into Games goal machine
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"I Really Couldn't See": Heavy Snow Disrupts Beijing Winter Olympics 2022
Heavy snow fell throughout Sunday at the Beijing Winter Olympics disrupting several events and forcing athletes to battle through treacherous conditions in the pursuit of gold. Californian-born Chinese sensation Eileen Gu was among the competitors affected when her bid for a second gold medal was temporarily derailed by the postponement of qualifying for the freeski slopestyle. The second of three training runs for the women's downhill skiing was cancelled and women's freestyle skiing aerials qualification was also postponed. Environmentalists in the build-up to the Games in the Chinese capital had voiced concern about an Olympics taking place in one of the driest parts of China and relying almost entirely on man-made snow.
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Even on Olympic stage, Asian American women experience racist abuse
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JUEGOS DE INVIERNO La venganza de la nieve
Los Juegos de Pekín han sufrido un contratiempo importante respecto al calendario debido a… la nieve. En una edición invernal en la que el 100% del blanco elemento ha sido creado de forma artificial, el dios del frío Bóreas parece haber querido demostrar su mal caracter y reivindicarse. Una tremenda nevada caída sobre las sedes olímpicas, en especial en el parque de nieve Genting en Zhangjiakou, ha supuesto un verdadero quebradero de cabeza para la organización debido a la nula visibilidad que provocaron, por ejemplo, el accidente entrenando de la italiana Elisa Maria Nakab o el retraso de la segunda manga del eslalon gigante masculino y el slopestyle de freeski femenino.
Olympics-Freestyle skiing-Freeski slopestyle qualifiers postponed until Monday due to snow
ZHANGJIAKOU, China (Reuters) -The women's freeski slopestyle qualifiers at the Beijing Games were postponed until Monday due to weather conditions, organisers said, as heavy snow led to poor visibility.