The 2022 Winter Olympics are the first Games in history to rely solely on the use of artificial snow.
The 2022 Olympics are the first Games in history to rely solely on artificial snow. While there is snow located in the areas where some of the events are held, it is not reliable enough for snow to be available for the entirety of the games.coauthored by Georgia State University, the host committee for these Games estimated they would need to use 49 million gallons of water, 130 fan-operated snow generators and 300 snow-making guns to create 1.2 million cubic meters of fake snow.
"Real snow is so much softer, right? So, if you fall, you have snowbanks on the side of the course, you're not sliding off into rocks and trees and mud where you could actually get very hurt," Diggins explained. "Now that we're moving to a much more manmade snow, the course is getting faster and icier and is actually a little bit dangerous for us because if you start sliding, you're going to keep sliding on ice.
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