Beijing won the right to take a vote for the Winter Olympics in 2022. The Chinese capital with a difference of four votes bypassed the Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan. The main winter sports event for the second time in a row will be held in Asia.
The capital of the XXIV Olympic Winter Games in 2022 will be Beijing. The Chinese capital won the voting members of the International Olympic Committee at its meeting in Kuala Lumpur. The only competitor – Kazakhstan Almaty lost four votes.
Beijing is the first city in history, and who will take the summer and winter Olympic Games. The main start for the athletes, not druzhaschih with ice and snow has already passed in the “northern capital” in 2008. After 14 years, the Olympic flame will once again be in the second largest city in China.
This election Olympic capital appeared to be extremely boring. For the second time in the XXI century to the final election came just two applications. The most recent case was connected with the Olympics in 2006, when the dispute agreed Turin and Italian Swiss Sion. Since then, the White Olympics has always claimed at least three cities.
But a year ago in the number of official candidates was far more participants. Before Malaysia could reach six cities, but for various reasons they refused to continue the fight.
The first of the Olympic dream has refused Polish Krakow, who planned to take the competition with Zakopane and the Slovak village of Yasnaya – if successful, it could be the first Olympics in different countries. But residents of Krakow in a local referendum rejected the plans of the authorities. Almost 70% of the Games was then told “no.”
next starred Lions. Even Viktor Yanukovych told about the plans to make the Western Ukraine one of the centers of winter tourism.
However, the subsequent crisis has deprived the country of any chance to take the Olympics. Then we have suggested that Lions would compete in the next Games in 2026, but since then these plans is not known.
Among the competitors in Beijing and Almaty were quite serious application Oslo and Stockholm – the capital of the traditionally strong winter sports powers, whose entire infrastructure has long been ready. Their actions raise the fact that Scandinavia did not take the Olympics since 1994, and has already received the Asia Games in 2018 thanks to the Korean Pyeongchang. However, neither in Norway nor in Sweden Olympic plans have not received the support of the political elite, and both cities have been forced to follow the Cracow and Lviv.
So among the contenders there were only two cities for which major winter sports events – a real exotic. Almaty can boast of having hosted the Asian Winter Games, which are nothing compared to this do not go to the Olympics. Beijing is only twice hosted World Short Track Speed Skating Championships and the World Forum on curling. About top-level competitions in hockey, biathlon, cross country skiing, alpine skiing, ski jumping, Nordic combined, snowboard, bobsled and luge or Kazakhstan or China he has never heard of.
However, both cities were the only contenders for the Olympic Games, promising that all the sports facilities will be built, and in the vicinity there are suitable slopes and slopes that are not inferior in quality to European.
Actually, Beijing closed all the arena ready – under It needs to be reconstructed Olympic stadium built for the Summer Games. Where there were matches in basketball and handball will now fight players, volleyball players will press skaters and cries resound kerlingistok where before were heard bursts of water due to jumping.
Perhaps this is the story of the refurbishment of summer scene in the winter, as well as the usual large-scale approach to the organization of the competition of the Chinese charm IOC members. In a single round of voting Beijing received 44 votes against 40 at the Alma-Ata. New Sochi Olympics after the former Soviet Union will not.
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