Is that a nuclear plant? The story behind those towers at the Winter Olympics ski jump
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The old steel mill next to the big air jump moved its operations more than 15 years ago -- before the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
But Beijing's ski jump -- Big Air Shougang -- is drawing attention for its much edgier, urban setting.
Behind the skiers launching themselves off the 60-meter-high (196-foot) ramp are furnaces, tall chimney stacks and cooling towers on the site of a former steel mill that for decades contributed to the Chinese capital's notoriously polluted skies.
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