A snowmaking machine works at the National Cross-Country Skiing Center in Zhangjiakou, China, before the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.
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Organizers of the 2022 Winter Olympics, which officially begin today, have been using dozens of snow generators and hundreds of snowblowers to create 1.2 million cubic meters of powder (or about 42.4 million cubic feet).
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