Beijing, Oslo, Almaty make list for 2022 Winter Games
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BEIJING, Oslo and Almaty will contest the race to win the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, the International Olympic Committee announced yesterday.
The three cities, which in IOC-speak were granted formal candidate status, were the only remaining bidders in the race after the Swedish capital Stockholm, Krakow in Poland and Lviv in Ukraine pulled out.
IOC President Thomas Bach told reporters that a meeting of the Olympic body’s executive committee had “extensively discussed” the bids of Beijing, Oslo (Norway) and Almaty (Kazaksthan) during a session yesterday.
“These three candidates have totally different approaches in terms of heritage, budget, infrastructure, but all impressed us,” he said at the IOC’s Lake Geneva-shore headquarters in the Swiss city of Lausanne.
The winner will be announced on July 31, 2015 at an IOC congress in Kuala Lumpur.
The 2018 Winter Games will take place in Pyeongchang, South Korea, while the 2014 edition was held in Sochi, Russia.
Bach underlined that the IOC does not have a one-size-fits-all approach to the Olympics.
“The cities are encouraged to produce bids that are best suited to their circumstances. The plans should reflect their own specific vision for how the Olympic Games can benefit their cities and regions to ensure positive, sustainable legacies for their populations. Oslo, Almaty and Beijing have addressed this,” he said.
If Beijing were to win the bidding race, the Chinese capital would make history as the first city to hold both the summer and winter games, having hosted the 2008 Olympics.
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