Finnish cross-country skier Remi Lindholm suffered from a frozen penis during the Beijing Winter Olympics.
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As temperatures warm, ski and snowboard resorts are investing more in snowmaking and seeing their seasons shrink. Those costs roll down to customers in an already expensive sport.
What does it take to deliver a medal-winning performance in skeleton, which involves racing down a banked track faster than a car on a freeway, with your face mere centimetres from the ice?
Air pollution are typically high during the winter months in Beijing, research shows.
As the Winter Olympics are showing, the unique cultures of action sports seem to support long careers among the top athletes – something other sports and society in general could learn from.
From pioneering green energy grids to mountains of fake snow.
Ski jumpers do everything they can to counteract the effects of gravity and fly as far as they can down hills.
There’s very little snow in Africa but, even so, since 1984 at least one African nation has competed at each winter Olympics and African athletes have been trailblazers.
Snowmaking machines can produce enough snow to cover a run, but artificial snow is very different from natural flakes that fall from the sky.
It may look like athletes in bobsled, luge and skeleton simply grab a sled and hang on until the bottom, but high-speed physics and tiny motions mean the difference between gold and a crash.
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Professor of Atmospheric Biogeochemistry, University of Birmingham
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Professor, School of Sport, Health and Human Performance, University of Waikato
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Professor in Sociology of Sport and Gender, University of Waikato
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Professor and Director of the Clinical Anatomy Learning Centre, Lancaster University
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Professor of Physics, University of Lynchburg
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Associate Professor of Sport Management and Director, Center for Sport Management and Education and the Laboratory for Sustainability in Sport, Texas A&M University
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Senior Lecturer of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University
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Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of Utah
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Senior Lecturer, Applied Sports Science, Curtin University
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Lecturer in Sport Business and Program Director for Sustainable Sport Business, Loughborough University
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Senior lecturer, Sol Plaatje University
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PhD Candidate in Environmental Health and Risk Management, University of Birmingham
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Lecturer | Pūkenga in Sports Management and Marketing, University of Canterbury
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