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Climate change will make it too warm for Winter Olympics

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Athletes are getting ready for a warm, soggy Winter Games in >Sochi. But thanks to global warming, that could soon be the norm for the Winter Olympics. by mid-century, close to half of the previous host cities could likely be too warm for outdoor sports like Alpine skiing and snowboarding. From the 1920s to the 1950s, the average February daily high temperature in host cities was just 0.4 C, a figure that had risen to 7.8 C between 2000 and 2010.
 
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