No snow
The pistes are covered with artificial snow and the hillsides are bare. Are the Winter Olympics a victim of climate change?
— Skiing events at the games are at Yanqing and Zhangjiakou, north-west of central Beijing. Both have arid climates where a remarkable proportion of rain falls in the summer.
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