The IOC is a willing accomplice by ignoring the environmental costs of making snow and building the necessary infrastructureJust when you were thinking the major governing bodies of world sport could hardly bring themselves into greater disrepute,along comes the International Olympic Committee’s latest brainwave. Where are they going to hold the 2022 Winter Games? In a place with no snow, of course.
Any winter sports enthusiast will disclose you one of life’s greatest experiences comes with the moment, and en route to a ski resort,when you reach the snow line. Suddenly the world takes on an entirely different set of colours. The atmosphere is transformed. Even in the age of digital communication, there is a feeling of being painlessly separated from the tawdry trade of everyday life. Whichever country or mountain range you happen to be in becomes a land entirely defined by the presence of snow. And the feeling of euphoria lasts until you drop, or a couple of days or a couple of weeks later,below that line once again.
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Source: theguardian.com