Oslo has now dropped out of the bidding for the 2022 Winter Olympics, leaving just two candidate cities, Beijing and Almaty, Kazakhstan. According to gamesbids.com, a site which obsessively tracks all things related to Olympic bids, neither city is ideal:
Beijing controversially hosted the Summer edition of the Games in 2008 and plans to reuse some of the city venues for the 2022 Games; but the snow venues are considered too distant in the mountains. Almaty in Kazakhstan does not have a well-developed winter sport culture and four years ago was dropped from the 2018 bid shortlist for not measuring up.
The 2022 bid will be award on July 31 next year. Read the story here.
What about the next games, in summer of 2024? Several cities are gearing up to bid, including four in the U.S.: Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington D.C. The winning city will be announced in 2017; in the meantime, the team organizing the Washington D.C. bid now has a website, DC2024.org, check it out here.
Wednesday morning correction: It's Oslo that dropped out this week; Stockholm had been in the bidding but dropped out earlier this year.
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