Ruth Sherlock

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Up First from NPR · Cheating in the most-polite sport, curling and what is "sledhead?" · 16 Feb 2026 podcast

They're having to take it from alpine springs and rivers in the area.

An environmental activist took me to see one of the sites that they're drawing the water from, and it

was this once pristine landscape just kind of turned into a building site.

There was bits of broken pipes and huge mounds of earth and trees cut down.

And they are taking gallons and gallons per second.

And the problem is, you know, what is the impact on local biodiversity, on the local ecology?

These rivers are already stressed by climate change and human use.

And the thing is, we don't know because the in-depth environmental assessment hasn't been done.

In fact, that's the case for about 60 percent of the some 98 infrastructure projects that have been approved for these games.

Cortina is this traditionally tiny town, this jewel in the beautiful Dolomites, this UNESCO World Heritage Site.

When I was there, I counted about 20 cranes for different construction projects, so it will have an impact.

Organisers had tried to say, you know, that they were going to try to use existing sporting equipment, existing arenas, existing sporting spaces so that they don't have to rebuild them.

And that is the case.

Actually, they've managed to kind of use existing structures in most cases.

you know, one of the most controversial points is about the bobsleigh track in Cortina.

There was hopes initially that they would use the bobsleigh track in Innsbruck in nearby Austria.

But Matteo Salvini, Italy's deputy prime minister, he intervened and said, no, it's a point of national pride that we have this sport in Italy.

And so they had to kind of completely redo the bobsleigh track in Cortina.

And that resulted in hundreds of larch trees being cut down from this

old growth forest and it now dominates the landscape and you know some of these infrastructure projects actually won't be finished for the games they were approved as part of a sort of local development and it's going to go on for years it involves new roads and even tunnels through the mountainside

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