Sochi’s Snow Will Become Too Slushy for Elite Skiing, Study Says
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Sochi, suffering with sun and slushy snow at this month’s Olympics, is going to get warmer, according to a study that says the Russian resort will be among six Winter Games hosts that will be too hot by 2050 to hold them again.
As cross-country skiers stripped down to sleeveless suits in sunshine in Sochi yesterday, authors of the study by Canada’s University of Waterloo and Austria’s Management Center Innsbruck said this month’s $44 billion Games will become unsuitable for elite alpine skiing if global carbon-dioxide emissions continue to push up temperatures at the same rate.