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In February 2022, as the Winter Olympic Games kicked off in Beijing, social media users were a little surprised to see that some of the ski events were being held on what looked to some like the remnants of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster: While these tweets were likely posted in jest — the Chernobyl nuclear disaster took place in Ukraine in 1986, while the 2022 Olympics are bring held in China — many people appeared to believe that the large structures in the background belonged to a nuclear power plant. But that's not the case. Those structures are not nuclear silos. Rather, this ski event took place near an old steel mill, with furnaces, chimney stacks, and old silos visible in the background. CNN reported: According to NPR, some of those silos have been converted into office spaces, while others were used to make snow for the Olympic games. Steve Inskeep, the host of Morning Edition, and reporter Emily Feng discussed the Olympics' steel mill setting: Here's a video of American Colby Stevenson competing in this unique setting:
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