Credit: Getty Images/Clive Rose Eduard Latypov of Team ROC shoots during warm up prior to the Men's Biathlon 4x7.5km Relay on Day 11 of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at National Biathlon Centre on ...

In an Olympic first, though not an achievement to boast about, climate variability has forced the Winter Games to be virtually 100% reliant on artificial snow – part of a trend that is taking ...

Tourists take photos amid snow at Jingshan Park in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 11, 2023. (Xinhua/Li Xin) This photo taken with a mobile phone shows the snow scenery of the National Center for the ...

Xinhua Tourists view a turret of the Palace Museum amid snow in Beijing, capital of China, Jan. 22, 2022.Photo:Xinhua Tourists take photos of the snow scenery at Beihai Park in Beijing ...

so many of the outdoor events will take place a couple hours away from Beijing in Zhangjiakou. And the snow you'll see on those mountains will be almost entirely artificial snow. Aesthetically ...

BEIJING — Heavy snowfall — the real kind — disrupted Olympic events Sunday, reminding participants that this is a winter event. Amid the snow and fog, skiers taking to the slopes struggled ...

But it flooded a dried riverbed, diverted water from a key reservoir that supplies Beijing and resettled hundreds of farmers and their families, all to feed one of the most extensive snow-making ...

And others have a more prosaic concern: the lack of snow in Beijing. So what tipped the vote in Beijing's favour? And can they host a successful Winter Olympic Games and Paralympic Games?

It would be hard to hold a conversation over the deafening sound of the snow machines preparing the Olympic venues northwest of Beijing. They are loud and they are everywhere, ...