Great Idea's From The Keyboard Of Lucy: Winter Olympics

The 2026 Winter Olympics will be held in Italy but already they are concerned that they won't have enough snow and are getting ready to use the artificial stuff like they did in China, Russia and Canada previously.
Obviously, because we were too damned stupid to stop filling the atmosphere with gunk, we are now at the start of a drastically changing climate but it always struck me strange that we held a Global sporting event which was based primarily on a single weather condition and secondary on steep enough hills for participants to fling themselves off of which excludes many nations, we are not going to be seeing a Saudi Arabian or Ghanaian Bobsleigh team dressed like Power Rangers hurtling down a slope anytime soon but I have an idea which will satisfy both the lack of snow going forward considering we have knackered the environment and will open the field to the Middle Eastern and African nations.   
My suggestion is to replace the last remaining nations with Snow with...places with sand.
The upside is desert-based nations get a fairer shot at gold and there is no lack of sand and with desertification, will soon be a whole lot more of it.
Of course the downside is that if you go arse over elbow during the downhill at 80mph or you are going to get all the skin on the underside of your body sanded away in seconds but i will leave that for the organisers to work out, i'm just the idea's person and I can't think of everything, geeze!!