Twitter Moments reveals Winter Olympics venues after the snow melts
Coverage leading up to the Olympic Games is always peppered with shots of the chosen venue and all the special preparations that are made to make the host ready for the grand event.
But what about after the torch goes out? What happens to these destinations—which are picked so many years in advance and go through so many steps to prepare—after the pomp and circumstance is over and done?
Thanks to Twitter Moments’ “The second lives of Winter Olympics venues” the social media world has an answer to those very questions.
The Vine collaboration, dated November 4, features a few past Winter Olympics hosts during warmer seasons, and shows how different these places are when the snow melts.
The Olympic Stadium from the Salt Lake City games in 2002 looks a bit different with green grass and dirt-brown mountain sides.
Ski jumping at Lake Placid, New York looks a bit more dangerous without snow, at least until you see the warm-weather skiers land in giant swimming pools.
The site of the Lillehammer ski jump appears to have been turned into a zip line, and looks more like a location for filming a scene from “Gladiator” than the powder-covered winter wonderland it was during the 1994 games.
With all the love this Twitter "Moment" Vine is getting on the Internet, hopefully more cities will want to join in and there will be equally-epic follow-ups.
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