EP 26 · 1:32:48

From 1924 natural snow → 2022 fully artificial snow

From Winter Olympics Deep Dive: Ice Physics, Performance Pressure, and Climate Change

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1:32:50going to be able to do it. Right. So this is getting pretty bad. Yeah. And especially when we have something like the Parolympics which happened you know a month or two after the real Olympics snow making requirement is going to keep on increasing because we're going to have to keep making snow in March and the amount of snow that we'll have to make is going to increase all the way from zero to now like 80%. If you want to do it in Eastern Europe and things like that, right? >> I mean we're already seeing this. I I talked about this but at Big Bear >> Yeah. They have the only thing the only reason you can ski on three or four of the runs right now is because of artificial >> artificial snow period.

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    Winter Olympics Deep Dive: Ice Physics, Performance Pressure, and Climate Change

    Why ice is slippery, why athletes choke, and why winter sports are changing.

    Winter Olympics Deep Dive: Ice Physics, Performance Pressure, and Climate Change