Daily: On Thin Ice – Can we green the Olympics?

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🗓️ 23 February 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Beijing 2022 was the first Winter Olympics to rely almost exclusively on fake snow – at great cost to the environment. But is it possible to make sports more sustainable, and will we even be able to have the Winter Olympics in the future? Dr. Madeleine Orr is a sports ecologist at Loughborough University London, and the founder of The Sport Ecology Group. She tells Jelena Sofronijevic about why pollution impacts competition, how international organisations exercise total control over local laws and taxes…and whether 2022 was really the “greenest and cleanest” Games yet. “When we think about sports, we’re not thinking about the environments where they take place.” “The more we use artificial spaces, the more original biodiversity loss.” Written and presented by Jelena Sofronijevic. Producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:12.3	Beijing 2022 was the to the bunker daily, I'm Yellen Asophrennievich.
1:13.0	Beijing 2022 was the first Winter Olympics to rely almost exclusively on fake snow.
1:19.0	With 430 snow cannons and 800 Olympic swimming pools of water China concocted a winter
1:25.8	wonderland for its athletes but one with great repercussions for the environment.
1:30.0	Sochi 2014 also used 90 and 80% fake snow.
1:35.0	That's the same as 1,000 football pitches,
1:37.8	plus plain loads of pink Himalayan salt
1:40.4	to keep everything gritty.
1:42.2	But is it possible to make snow sports more sustainable
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