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Beijing’s big air jumps at the 2022 Winter Olympics look like a dystopian hellscape

The big air ramps inside a former Beijing steel mill have created a surreal backdrop at the Winter Olympics.

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this really the best place they could come up with to set up this event?

 

[Phunkydiabetic]

China af

 

[Trogdor1123]

That’s real?

 

[Slaylock]

What's been remarkable to me is the almost total lack of snow. All the snow for the events is man-made, and the surrounding landscape is completely bare. Not much of a winter wonderland.

 

[Batiman]

Holy fuck you ain’t joking

 

[Nobody_Important]

I mean it's China sooooo......

 

[Con-Z-epT]

Winter games with a 100% artificial snow.

 

[Little Mac]

Looking like Gears of War over there.

 

[GermanZepp]

That has to be intentional

 

[Mistake]

What's been remarkable to me is the almost total lack of snow. All the snow for the events is man-made, and the surrounding landscape is completely bare. Not much of a winter wonderland.

That’s because Beijing is basically a desert. It rarely rains or snows, and occasionally even has sandstorms. I can’t check the exact distance, but the gobi desert is west of it

 

[MrMephistoX]

What’s nuts is that they could have just done the events in Qindao or Harbin in the Northeast where it’s actually wintery but I guess no one got the memo it’s okay to host some events outside of Beijing?

 

[zeorhymer]

They need the plants to power all those snow machines.

 

[Pejo]

I think it's pretty metal. The article says that the participants are praising it, but one has to wonder if it's not a threat to safety/foreign relations/social credit to say it looks bad.

The dumbest thing from what I read is that they're leaving it up all year to encourage people to try winter sports, but like...who the fuck that isn't already expertly trained in ski jumping is just going to wake up one day and say "yea what the fuck, I'll give it a shot".

 

[Reallink]

I'm assuming those nuclear waste water reservoirs supplied the snow blowers.

 

[Coolwhhip]

They will use that ramp to push off free thinkers after the Olympics.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Winter games with a 100% artificial snow.

Zhong Xina thanks you for your patronage.

 

[Kilau]

Good enough for Eileen Gu.

 

[AJUMP23]

Great advertisement for totalitarianism.

 

[Dural]

What's been remarkable to me is the almost total lack of snow. All the snow for the events is man-made, and the surrounding landscape is completely bare. Not much of a winter wonderland.

The downhill course was put on a mountain that doesn't get snow, the IOC knew this from the beginning. Their excuse back when Beijing got the 2022 games was that the skiers like the artificial snow more.

 

[AJUMP23]

Good enough for Eileen Gu.

She is going to try and make that Chinese and American money. I think Tess leduex got robbed of that gold. US should revoke her citizenship.

 

[AJUMP23]

The downhill course was put on a mountain that doesn't get snow, the IOC knew this from the beginning. Their excuse back when Beijing got the 2022 games was that the skiers like the artificial snow more.

The skiers have been falling and given little practice because of Covid.

 

[Dural]

The skiers have been falling and given little practice because of Covid.

Yeah, I think 20 of the skiers in the women's GS fell, including some of the best in the world. All falling at the same spot too.

Anyone that's skied on artificial snow knows how icy it can get.

 

[Kilau]

She is going to try and make that Chinese and American money. I think Tess leduex got robbed of that gold. US should revoke her citizenship.

Yeah, she’s a real piece of crap, athletes selling out to China is a really disgusting trend.

 

[AJUMP23]

Yeah, she’s a real piece of crap, athletes selling out to China is a really disgusting trend.

You sound like you need to be re-educated.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

There are some reports of more frequent and worse injuries already just days into this winter Olympics. Hopefully all is well for the athletes competing.

I'd be lying if I ignored the bad optics of such a photo and backdrop. Way to put your best foot forward.

 

[zeorhymer]

She is going to try and make that Chinese and American money. I think Tess leduex got robbed of that gold. US should revoke her citizenship.

Watched a vid about her. She has a US citizenship, but China does not allow dual. Supposedly she revoked it at 15, but US laws says you can't do it til 16. Then there's the millions of sponsors she's getting and the excuse to teach young Chinese girls to ski. Did she bother to look into CCP history on 1 child rule and all of girls being abandoned etc. Of course not.

 

[Alebrije]

Looks like an arcade videogame background...reality surpass fiction.

 

[MadAnon]

The entire event seems like being held in the middle of nowhere in Mongolia. It's that bleak. Looks like some damn desert.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Wouldnt it wild if they had an event where you jump over one of those giant smokestacks with giant ramps!?

A very easy event to judge. Clear the hole = 10. Into the hole = an obituary.

 

[Kilau]

You sound like you need to be re-educated.

I just need that proper incentive.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

I for one salute.

 

[Sub_Level]

The entire event seems like being held in the middle of nowhere in Mongolia. It's that bleak. Looks like some damn desert.

Mongolia and Western China are probably beautiful. Over 90% of China's population is clumped into their Eastern half, its crazy.

 

[E-Cat]

Nuclear power is clean and a sensible part of the energy mix of the future consisting of it, solar, wind, geothermal and hydro. Nothing dystopian about it (yes, I know it's a steel mill).

 

[dr_octagon]

PS5 version of sim city looking good

 

[RoyalLaFlame]

You guys will never ever learn. Everything China does is dystopian and with an ulterior motive.

So fucking dumb

 

[AJUMP23]

Watched a vid about her. She has a US citizenship, but China does not allow dual. Supposedly she revoked it at 15, but US laws says you can't do it til 16. Then there's the millions of sponsors she's getting and the excuse to teach young Chinese girls to ski. Did she bother to look into CCP history on 1 child rule and all of girls being abandoned etc. Of course not.

I wonder if she asked her mom why she left?

 

[Tschumi]

There's a famous factory-turned-art gallery in central Beijing called 798... Ai Wei Wei was getting big there when i lived there, i knew an Australian diplohusband who rented a space there... it was great... and i heard of another one further out, called the [i forget] factory, anyway renovating abandoned industrial sites is a legitimate architectural thing there.

I think this is ego.

Some intern had a cheesy idea and his auteur boss took it as his own and, with a huge budget, found the biggest complex he could and totally screwed up the scale ratios. The upshot is, as the OP said, a calamity of tasteless architecture.

 

[Nobody_Important]

PS5 version of sim city looking good

Yeah except much like the real sim city it looks like none of that shit actually functions lol

 

[DeepBreath87]

You guys will never ever learn. Everything China does is dystopian and with an ulterior motive.

So fucking dumb

It’s just ugly and awful looking. The aesthetic is terrible. They had to realize how those pictures were going to come off.

 

[RoyalLaFlame]

It’s just ugly and awful looking. The aesthetic is terrible. They had to realize how those pictures were going to come off.

It is ugly, but every time I see China in the title, dystopian is always the word that follows.

It's just ugly and it doesn't represent anything regarding China. It was just a bad choice for the Winter Olympics.

 

[jonnyp]

Factorio 2 looking pretty good

 

[BouncyFrag]

 

[Amiga]

They photoshop real life.

 

[Ownage]

 

[SentientStone]

Matches the theme...

 

[Mistake]

You guys will never ever learn. Everything China does is dystopian and with an ulterior motive.

So fucking dumb

You’re right. Usually it’s pizazz mixed with a high dose of incompetence

 

[AJUMP23]

They should have held it at an iPhone factory, bonus points if no one commits suicide during your run.

 

[nush]

It is ugly, but every time I see China in the title, dystopian is always the word that follows.

https://www.neogaf.com/search/2978410/?q=dystopian&c[title_only]=1&o=relevance

This is the ONLY topic on GAF since 2007 that has "China" and "Dystopian" in the title. If you want to make a counterpoint don't use hyperbole as an opener because you discredit yourself from the start.

 

[RoyalLaFlame]

Uhh

https://www.neogaf.com/search/2978410/?q=dystopian&c[title_only]=1&o=relevance

This is the ONLY topic on GAF since 2007 that has "China" and "Dystopian" in the title. If you want to make a counterpoint don't use hyperbole as an opener because you discredit yourself from the start

Ugh, I wasn’t talking about Gaf… the word “here” is not even present in my post so I have no idea why you just came guns blazing

 

[nush]

Uhh

Ugh, I wasn’t talking about Gaf… the word “here” is not even present in my post so I have no idea why you just came guns blazing

I was being factual and pragmatic, not aggressive. You also didn't specify you were not specifically talking about GAF without the "Here".