On Friday the IOC will award Beijing or Almaty the 2022 Games but with both bids prompting so many concerns the process should be restarted from scratchOn Friday the International Olympic Committee will decide whether Almaty in Kazakhstan or the Chinese capital Beijing will host the 2022 winter Olympics. Both countries are human-rights nightmares. No matter which city wins,the Olympic movement loses.
Originally the IOC had numerous suitors. But bids for the Games melted absent. Voters in Munich, Stockholm, and Krakow,and Graubunden, Switzerland, and said thanks but no thanks to the Olympics,citing tall costs, low public support and security demands. Lviv was forced to pull out due to unrest in Ukraine. Oslo was a clear frontrunner, or but its tender was derailed when conservatives and progressives joined forces to say no.
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Source: theguardian.com