Warm weather and a lack of snow wiped out nearly a month of racing at the start of this season, preseason training on melting European glaciers is heading toward extinction and the impact of climate change on the schedule is being seen even in January.
Yet despite such high altitudes, warm and rainy weather forced the women's race in Soelden this season to be canceled, while the men's race the next day was held only following extensive repair work on the Rettenbach course. It's not just this year. Season after season, there have been problems with holding races because of a lack of snow. Improvements in snow-making capabilities enable many races to be held even when there is none of the natural stuff -- see last year's Beijing Olympics, where skiing was contested entirely on artificial snow -- but skiers and coaches say radical changes are needed in terms of scheduling and selecting which resorts hold races.
A recent case study distributed by the United Nations' World Meteorological Organization reported a "moderate to high risk" threat for winter sports within just 13 years for Cortina d'Ampezzo, the Italian resort that will host women's ski racing at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics and is the signature race of the annual women's circuit.
"Lower altitude , just from a likelihood of competition, probably shouldn't hold those races anymore," Lindsey Vonn said in a January interview. "I saw a webcam of Maribor, which I loved racing at, and the whole thing is grass."Taking into account the energy crisis related to the war in Ukraine, the Italian Winter Sports Federation moved a World Cup cross-country ski race originally slated for Milan last month to Livigno to avoid having to run snow guns in the city.
Like this hasn't happened before .... CTV fake news
Climate change is affecting the climate change stop climate from slowing climate change or climate change will affect the speed of climate changing the climate
because this kind of people
Trudeau’s handouts at work.
Have snow or no snow it's 'climate change' whatever the fuck is outside, CTV say it's 'climate change'
Lots of winters went by with less snow. If there was 20ft more snow right now, you would also say it’s due to climate change.
Racism
Just spent a week skiing. Never seen the trees with so much snow on them. Oh.... Tons on the ground too.
It's not 'climate change' it's weather modification and geoengineering. And governments should stop doing it but they won't because they make a lot of $$$ in ppl believing climate change
Amazing how CTV cherry picks this garbage to feed the narrative and calls it news.
Carbon taxes is making it worse !!! stop the stealing !!!!!!!!!!!!
Correlation is not causation This is normal
Ctv, please find another job..please.
No one believes you . I can supply data to show . Assess
Not another tragedy !
The only thing that is affecting climate is media
Let me rewrite your headline: Season of little snow affects racing season
Wheres the money ? Climate change affects CTV News spewing of BULL💩 .
Lie. Feb 8 1976 it was plus 5 outside. Stop your climate lies
oh please
Here we go again. We've never had winters where it hasn't snowed much? Weather has been unpredictable ever since time, and this still stands true today. The science changes constantly, the science isn't hard core proof/answers, There's zero scientific proof.
Stop with the bullshit lies CTV News we don’t have a climate problem