Beijing will host the 2022 Olympic Winter Games and 2022 Paralympic Winter Games from February 4-20, 2022 after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted to award the event to Beijing on Friday 31 July 2015 at its meeting in Kuala Lumpur, over rival bidder, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Beijing overcame concerns about a lack of snow, pollution, traffic, and the idea of having three consecutive Olympic events and two consecutive Olympic Winter Games in northeastern Asia. Pyeongchang, South Korea, hosts the 2018 Olympic Winter Games and Tokyo, Japan, will host the 2020 Olympic Games.
The bid win caps a 21-month campaign in which Beijing was the last entrant into a field of five cities that included Almaty, Lviv, Ukraine; Krakow, Poland; and Oslo, Norway. Stockholm, Sweden, had already dropped out of the race by the time Beijing entered. All four of the other European cities also dropped out prior to the deadline for final applications.
The city made a final presentation on Friday before voting began, featuring speeches by former NBA all-star Yao Ming and Beijing Mayor Wang Anshun.
So, Beijing -- here we go again, Congratulations!!!
Source: Thebeijinger
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