How sad is this for the 2010 Olympics ?

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Now they're trying to PRESERVE the snow that they're trucking in from all over British
Columbia to the Olympic venues.
They've used the 'straw under man-made snow' technique to lessen the amount of snow they
truck in. And now they're laying 'corrugated pipes filled with dry ice' under man-made or
trucked in snow.
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A new way to harden Cypress's snow
The Globe and Mail

VANCOUVER - Organizers for the 2010 Winter Olympics are pulling out all stops at troubled
Cypress Mountain, including a snow-hardening technique designed to battle the unseasonably
warm temperatures.
Two fields of play at Cypress Mountain are being artificially frozen by the new technique,
the latest in a series of measures taken to improve conditions at the Olympic home of
freestyle skiing and snowboard.

Above-freezing temperatures and a paucity of snow have forced the cancellation of official
training days and recreational skiing for Olympians, and organizers have admitted they are
"knee deep" in contingency planning, working around the clock to get Cypress ready.

Training for moguls competitors begins Monday, with the women's competition scheduled for
Saturday, while training on the parallel giant slalom snowboard course has now been pushed
back by two days. But organizers say that will still give athletes ample time to prepare
before the competition. Parallel giant slalom doesn't begin until Feb. 26.

Media will not be allowed on the mountain until Tuesday.

The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games is using
corrugated pipes, buried beneath the snow on the aerials and moguls fields of play. The
pipes are filled with dry ice, which freezes or hardens the snow from the inside out.

"It's something we haven't done before, so, for us, it's quite interesting," said Peter
Judge, chief executive officer of the Canadian Freestyle Association.

The technique creates a more consistent surface because the snow is sapped of moisture and
becomes more granular than the sticky fresh stuff, which has been in short supply.

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It is not sad but costly. Being sad or not sad would have to depend
on who feels about the whole thing.

[sparky]

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Waste of taxpayers money !!!

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In order to decide whether or not this is a net loss, one has to do
better than sheer speculation.