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| In the past 17 months, I made five trips to a village northwest of Beijing. I was curious whether one of the Olympic venues there would be ready for the Games. |
| Here’s what I saw → |
| This is how the site looked in August 2020: A path down the hill had been prepared for the moguls freestyle skiing event. Towers had been erected to carry the athletes’ chair lift, but chair lift cables had not yet been installed. |
| A hillside on the way to the ski resort had already been covered with solar panels by then. The hillside is near a newly built high-speed rail line with trains that travel up to 217 miles per hour from Beijing to the ski area. |
| The venue is part of Genting ski resort. |
| In August 2020, workers were finishing up the 3,800 guest rooms, a 10-fold increase in the number from before China won its Olympic bid. |
| By July 2021, the chair lift was ready, and so were the snow-making machines and the buildings for judges. |
| Preparations had begun for grandstands for spectators. |
| In late December, the venue was finally ready and covered in artificial snow. The nearby hillsides, though mostly snowless, were dotted with wind turbines to provide further electricity for the Olympics and nearby towns. |
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