Heavy snow has quietly arrived, and the highly anticipated freestyle ski slope obstacle course and freestyle ski women's aerial skills qualifiers have been postponed. As a result, as the top ice and snow event on the earth, the Winter Olympics are actually "afraid of snow", which has become a "new thing" in the eyes of many people. A lot of question marks followed, why are ice and snow events afraid of snow? Isn't the more snow the better? Only the Beijing Winter Olympics were "swung together by snow"?
Mona was bored, not anxious, and listened to Erdo slowly decompose:
First, let's answer the first two questions.
Why are you afraid of snow at the Winter Olympics? The reason is simple, "snow big mistake"!
For those indoor projects that make people watch the blood boiling, if it does not snow, the impact is not large, or it has no impact at all. Therefore, here, the "snow big mistake" is mainly aimed at snow projects, (including other outdoor projects).
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Meteorological factors such as snowfall, temperature, wind speed, and visibility are all "time-in-day" elements for every athlete. In this article, we will only talk about "snowfall".
First, snowfall has an impact on the track. Think about it, just after the snow, the surface of the track is piled up with soft snow, the friction is bound to increase, for the runners, this is obviously not "one arm", but "dragging the hind legs".
Second, snowfall can affect visibility. Not only will the player's line of sight be affected, but the referee's line of sight will also be affected. Bright vision, it is still inevitable that there will be "eye difference", and the situation is "cloudy and snowy"!
Third, and most importantly, snowfall can affect the safety of the game. As Erdo mentioned earlier, snowfall is usually accompanied by strong winds, and the result of the wind may be a world of difference for players who need to complete the spinning, jumping, and churning movements on the snow.
On the 8th, in the final of the Shougang freestyle ski jump, mainland skier Gu Ailing won the gold medal. Thinking back to the game that day, the super invincible beautiful girl jumped up, and the number plate behind her fluttered with the wind. Imagine that at this time, a strong wind whistled in, as if she had been hit hard, not only was it very likely that she would not be able to complete the championship winning action, but even her personal safety would be greatly threatened.
It can be seen that for the Winter Olympics, the more snow the better!
The next question, is only the Beijing Winter Olympics "swung together by snow"?
Of course not, the Beijing Winter Olympics are just one of the "several" Winter Olympics that have encountered "roadblocks"!
Let's take a look at some of the Winter Olympics that have been "delayed" by heavy snowfall:
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1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz: An unpopular snowstorm forced the postponement of ice hockey, speed skating, alpine skiing, Nordic biathlon and other events. The next day, temperatures plummeted, and the snow and ice thawed due to worsening rains, and all scheduled events were cancelled.
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1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo: A small snowfall that forced the 1500-meter speed skating to be postponed.
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1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo: Unexpected snowfall lasting several days led to the postponement or cancellation of countless scheduled events. Among them, alpine skiing has been cancelled consecutively, and men's alpine descent has been postponed three times, which is undoubtedly a torture for the players with arrows on the string. Speed skating, snowmobiling, sledding and other events have also been postponed.
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1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville: Heavy snow drifted in, causing the Super Slalom to be postponed.
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1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano: Heavy snow and freezing rain caused many events to be postponed or even cancelled. Among them, the men's alpine downhill was postponed three times before it was held, the women's alpine downhill was postponed by two days, the women's super slalom was postponed by one day, and the four-person snowmobile race was cancelled. The saddest thing is that the men's Nordic biathlon competition was stopped in the middle of the way and resumed the next day, how can the contestants not collapse?
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2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics: 3 postponements and 3 postponements due to bad weather, but the details are not known because they have not been officially announced.
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2006 Winter Olympics in Turin: Affected by a snowstorm, ski jumping, cross-country skiing, super giant slalom, aerial skills, Nordic biathlon and other events have either been postponed or postponed.
Although there are often "roadblocks" that come out to make trouble, no Winter Olympics have failed because of the postponement, postponement, or cancellation of the game.
After the snow is clear, the competition will continue, let us continue to watch the wonderful events, continue to cheer and cheer for the athletes of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games!
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