English Summery- You know it’s cold when Winter Olympians are freezing -

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2022/02/05/beijing-olympics-weather-conditions/

More than 15 years after first stepping on snowboards, Hailey Langland, who used hand and toe warmers on the first official day of the second Olympics, said,''It's life-changing.''

The first official day of the second Olympics is Saturday, as multiple ungloved fingers and hands take less than a minute to lose sensation, and warm air escapes from the best-fitting KN95 and N95 masks.

It was so cold and windy that the lashes and eyebrows appeared almost instantly.

Wind can be a complex factor throughout multiple sporting competitions held in the mountainous regions of China, and some sports had to be interrupted due to the wffects of the wind.

When the wind swirls like Saturday, aquick decision is needed as it can obviously cause some really bad results during the competition. Also, because the cold deprives the body of energy, relaxing the athlete's core temperature is important in all therr endurnce sports and is very important for good performance.