By Evan Bleier Although some Olympic viewers have been expecting to see Homer Simpson pop over to watch the freestyle skiing and snowboarding competitions at the Big Air Shougang venue in Beijing due to the site’s proximity to a cooling tower, the gigantic ski ramp is located next to a 100-year-old former steel factory, not a shuttered nuclear power plant. “Steel became not just an important industry for China, but it became a symbol in a way, an embodiment of socialist command planning. But it was also an embodiment of modernity,” per NPR. “But as China’s state-planned economy gave way to a m…