Athletes and fans will have to adjust to unusually cold Olympic Games
by David Wharton, Los Angeles Times
Feb 09, 2018
3 minutes
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea - The American speed team - the men and women who scream down mountainsides in the downhill and the super-giant slalom - are packing extra equipment at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Rolls of thick tape. To put across cheeks and down noses. To ward off frostbite.
"When you're going 70 to 80 miles an hour, that adds a lot of windchill," veteran Ted Ligety says. "You have to tape your face."
After nearly a decade of sunny skies and melting snow, the Winter Games have
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