Clapping skis to the pulpy thrash of poles: the Winter Olympics are an ASMR wonderland
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Choi Gaon lays down a landing on her way to Olympic gold. Photograph: Ian MacNicol/Getty Images The mountains always promise escape from the squalor of existence at sea level, if not a kind of purification. The fortifying ruggedness of the terrain, the apple-crisp air, the high-albedo dazzle of sunlit snow: at altitude, it seems, everything […]