After more than a week of competing on courses lined with machine-made snow, Olympians in Beijing are waking up again to the sight of real snow. The forecast for Sunday was for light flurries and temperatures around 25 degrees Fahrenheit.
A day earlier, a steady snow had fallen at Zhangjiakou, a city roughly 100 miles northwest of China’s capital that is host to some skiing and snowboarding events. In Yanqing, another competition zone in the mountains outside Beijing, skies were overcast. The region was expected to get two to four inches of snow by Sunday night.