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Rising costs of climate change threaten to make skiing a less diverse, even more exclusive sport

  • Written by Brian P. McCullough, Associate Professor of Sport Management and Director of the Laboratory for Sustainability in Sport, Texas A&M University
imageSome resorts have launched diversity efforts to try to appeal to a wider community.Johannes Kroemer via Getty Images

Watching skiers compete almost entirelyon artificially made snow at the 2022 Winter Olympics, we found it hard not to think about climate change and what it will mean for the future of the winter sports industry – and who will...

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