Who needs snow to host a Winter Games?

The Olympic movement, which now seems to be vying with the oily creeps of FIFA in a race for irrelevance, took a pretty substantial lead in that particular headlong rush a few days ago.

This occurred when the Winter Olympics was awarded to Beijing, rather than Almaty of Kazakhstan, for 2022.

Why is this remarkable? For several reasons, the most obvious being that I am informed by those who know that it barely snows in Beijing.