Originally Posted by
AncientPsychicT
Almaty and Beijing are the last two options, huh? Well doesn't that throw the proverbial wrench in the IOC's stated policy of rotating continents as much as possible. For those who are wondering, the
2018 Winter Olympics are being held in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The
2020 Summer Olympics are being held in Tokyo. Now, the 2022 Winter Olympics will be the third straight Olympics, and second consecutive Winter Olympics, hosted by an Asian city. It would be especially bad publicity for the IOC if Beijing were to get the Olympics (which seems quite likely as Almaty and Kazakhstan don't necessarily have the best infrastructure), as the Olympics would consecutively be held in South Korea, then Japan, then China.
From my perspective, the Olympics (well at least the politics behind them) are steadily becoming an international joke. Sigh...
Moreover, Sochi in 2014 doesn't exactly offer a view of the Danube or the North Sea. It is east of most of Asian Turkey and, if counted as Europe, it is a very technical definition of Europe.
Sage Grouse
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