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Beijing looks fair bet for 2022 Winter Games, despite lack of enthusiasm

July 5, 2015 admin citing-worries, dropping-out, express-their, final, left-facing, shows, south-africa, spencer, summer-games, visit-the-white, wide-acclaim, winter, winter-olympics, women

Beijing looks like an improbable front-runner to win the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics.

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Olympics-Beijing looks fair bet for 2022 Winter Games, despite lack of enthusiasm

July 5, 2015 publisher citing-worries, facebook, final, health, host-the-2022, popular-support, summer-games, winter-olympics

Beijing looks like an improbable front-runner to win the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. With Oslo dropping out of the race last year, citing worries over costs and the lack of popular support, Beijing, which hosted the 2008 Summer Games to wide acclaim, is left facing the Kazakh city of Almaty. Almaty previously bid for the 2014 Winter Olympics, but did not make the final shortlist of three cities.