Video For the first time, the Olympic Winter Games will take place exclusively on artificial snow. This “false snow” is not a novelty.
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An ecological scandal in China? The Olympic Games of Beijing 2022, which open on Friday, February 4, have the specificity of unfolding bell because of the risks of recovery of the CVIV-19 epidemic. Another detail did not fail to tick some observers: all track tests will take place on artificial snow made by 300 snow guns.
For the ecologist candidate in the presidential election, Yannick Jadot the presence, in particular, such machines to make any pieces of the ski trails deserve a “diplomatic boycott” of this fortnight Olympic. Yet the artificial snow is not a novelty in the middle of the Olympic Glide and the quantities of water necessary for sixteen days of competition are limited when compared, for example, for the consumption of a large city.