{"id":139549,"date":"2015-07-31T12:25:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T12:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=139549"},"modified":"2015-07-31T12:25:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T12:25:31","slug":"beijing-wins-bid-to-host-2022-winter-olympic-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/07\/beijing-wins-bid-to-host-2022-winter-olympic-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing wins bid to host 2022 Winter Olympic Games"},"content":{"rendered":"
Beijing will host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games.<\/p>\n
On Friday, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) granted the Chinese city the right to hold the Games after a secret vote in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<\/p>\n
It was a sad competition this time around, with only two candidates seeing through the application to be a host \u2014 Beijing, China and Almaty, Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n
Numerous cities dropped out of the bidding process. Oslo in Norway, Stockholm in Sweden, Krakow in Poland and Lviv in Ukraine all put in initial bids to the IOC, which were later retracted.<\/p>\n
The cities dropped out due to varying degrees of lack of financial, public and government support, while Ukraine dropped its bid due to the unrest in the country.<\/a><\/p>\n The Swedish capital pulled out in December 2012 after politicians declined to give financial support. The Polish city withdrew in May 2014 after 70% of residents rejected the bid in a referendum.<\/p>\n While in October of the same year, Oslo finally dropped out of the race after failing to gain government financial support for the bid.<\/a><\/p>\n All these decisions seem like very logical reasons after the farce that was the 2014 Winter Olympics<\/a> in Sochi, Russia.<\/p>\n The country spent a massive $51 billion to host the games, which was marred with gay rights issues, preparation concerns, corruption allegations and the country’s ongoing conflict with Ukraine.<\/p>\n It also saw the infrastructure created for the winter extravaganza left vacant and had little positive impact on the people of Russia.<\/p>\n