Beijing is
set to become the first city to have hosted both the Summer and Winter
Olympics after it was chosen to stage the 2022 Winter Games.
International
Olympic President Thomas Bach confirmed Beijing, which hosted the
Summer Games in 2008, had been chosen ahead of Almaty in Kazakshtan at
the 128th IOC session in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Friday.
“I
am so excited. This is China’s pride,” Zhang Hong, China’s women’s
1,000m speed skating gold medal winner at the Sochi Games, told CCTV.
Only
Beijing and Almaty had been left in the running after Oslo, Munich and
Stockholm bowed to public pressure and decided not to pursue plans to
host the winter sports showpiece.
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