Olympic venues get real snow, a rarity.

Beijing has relied on artificial snow for its competition courses, but real flurries have fallen on the Olympic host city this weekend.Credit...Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York TimesAfter more than a week of competing on courses lined with machine-made snow, Olympians in Beijing are waking up to the sight of real snow in the capital and the surrounding mountains.

A steady snow that began Saturday continued in Zhangjiakou, a city roughly 100 miles northwest of China’s capital that is host to some skiing and snowboarding events. Some of those events were delayed Sunday. Snow expanded overnight to Beijing and Yanqing, an area in the corner of northwest Beijing where wind and the flakes delayed to…