Artificial snow at the Beijing Winter Olympics

China is the first country to host both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games. China is making artificial snow for the 2022 Winter Olympics.

China will make artificial snow at the snowboarding, ski jumping sites of the Olympic Games. Cross country, biathlon, nordic, freestyle and snowboarding games will be held in Zhangjiakou. It is 100 miles from the host city and is a ski destination. The temperature here goes below zero degrees Celsius. Although the snowfall has subsided.

Earlier there used to be heavy snowfall here. Now it has come down to millimeters. The Olympics cannot depend on a slight snowfall. Thus, artificial snow will be created. Artificial snow is important for gliding games.

The first ice-making at the Olympics was done in 1980 over Lake Placid. In 2014, Sochi (Russia) used artificial snow.