I must "admit" that I did watch some of it....and I did see the stacks...can't recall if comments were made but I just thought it was really awkward / weird / out of place to see the smokestacks in the background.Rafe wrote: ↑Tue Feb 08, 2022 12:48 pm And my bet is that NBC, who is covering the games, will show not one single shot from an angle that shows the stacks, and will never mention them once.
Oh, and a follow-up thought. If you watched some of the early news or commentary from the games, another thing you're aware of is that every bit of "snow" on all venues is manmade. Not a bit of it is natural snow. Has there ever been a winter Olympics where all the snow is manufactured? It's one of the reasons the ski slopes have been unusually treacherous: the manmade snow isn't like a powder; it's hard and icy. We saw that when Miss Consistency Mikaela Shiffrin went down on her very first run of the games at the giant slalom.
Regarding the manmade snow - I agree - very hard and icy....you could see the skis vibrating / oscillating....hard on the edges / equipment and the skiers! But then one of the competitors commented on "how great the conditions were" which struck me as really odd. It's been a few years since I've skied but I do remember that when I'd jump on a slalom / GS course after a competition (and open to the general skiing public) that the corners were pretty scraped out - meaning it was all ice...hard edging or else you just sliddddddd a looooong way! I grew up skiing on landfills that were covered with ice (NE Ohio) so it felt like home to me!
