PARIS, Jan 27 - Snowmaking teams are racing to create competition conditions for the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics within ever-narrower cold windows, as climate change steadily reshapes the limits of what technology can deliver.

Across Italy’s Alpine venues, organisers are relying increasingly on artificially produced snow to offset declining and less predictable natural snowfall, squeezing months of preparation into brief periods of sub-zero temperatures and leaving ever less room for error.