What a lovely location for freestyle skiing!

[El Supremo]

[dchill]

1. I see what you did there.

Nice of them not to be belching smoke.

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. Those belch steam.

I was kinda shocked to see that in the background.

[captain queeg]

2. Is that a nuke plant in the background?

I guess it’s not necessarily one, but usually cooling towers are used at nuke plants. Definitely show the real China.

[Auggie]

4. Appropriate photo. It takes a lot of energy to create an Olympics with artificial snow.

[DinahMoeHum]

5. Not to mention the irony of a tiny pee-pee of an Olympic torch. . .

. . .compared to previous Games.

[El Supremo]

6. Here is the story:

BEIJING, China — As Eileen Gu won gold in freestyle skiing big air, Winter Olympics viewers couldn't get enough of the venue's dystopian vibe.

When viewers saw giant towers that some thought were straight out of "The Simpsons," many took to social media to ask whether the skiers were competing at a nuclear power plant.

In truth, the Big Air Shougang Park is at the site of a former steel mill that once billowed smoke into smoggy Beijing. The sprawling industrial park was shuttered in conjunction with Beijing's efforts to clean up its image and its air around the 2008 Games. It has since been converted to a sports and culture center.

One of the centerpieces at the former Shougang Group steel mill is the Olympic big air jump — the first permanent, city-based venue the sport has ever had.

Freestyle skiers are competing there this week, and snowboarders will come by next week.

https://www.9news.com/article/sports/olympics/big-air-beijing-olympics-course/73-a7f10cdc-6071-466b-9104-d77299a401f8

[Cuthbert Allgood]

7. I kind of liked it for that reason.

Cool justaposition.