Daily: On Thin Ice – Can we green the Olympics?
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Is Manmade Snow More Dangerous for Athletes?
In most sports, athletes are training at least part time in artificial conditions. The surface of artificial snow is harder, and therefore, when you fall on it, you risk a harder injury. It's impossible to tease out that one particular fall from ther because there's so much individual variation around what the athletes are doing,. But hopefully, moving forward, we'll get that data. We've seen some crazy skiouts. A high level of did not finish in their races. And i noticed this year that british freestalskia laura donaldson said that man made snow is more dangerous for athletes. They're probably telling the truth. That is a fairly common complaint among
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