Climate Change may Affect Staging of Winter Olympics

A joint study carried out by researchers from Canada's University of Waterloo and Austria's Management Center Innsbruck says that the rapid change of global clime means that only 11 of the previous 19 sites will be able cold enough to hold the Winter Olympics in the coming decades with the number of sites being reduced to six by the end of this century. "The cultural legacy of the world's celebration of winter sport is increasingly at risk," said Professor Daniel ...