''Nobody Wants to Host the 2022 Winter Olympics'' mourns Deadspin's headline, except that's not quite true, because one city would very much like to host the games: Beijing.
As Anthony Tao points out, other country's lack of interest has essentially left the joint Beijing-Zhangjiakou bid as the front runner:
Of the six cities that submitted bids, only two are left. What’s another few billion dollars for Beijing after the $40 billion this country spent for the 2008 Games?
Of course, there is one final obstacle: that other standing, strong bid, from Almaty, Kazakhstan. “It will not be a big budget,” says Andrey Kryukov, executive board member of the Kazakh Olympic Committee.
Your choice, IOC.
Polish and Swedish bids for the games have been withdrawn in recent months, with Norway expected to follow. The Ukrainian city of Lviv is still in the running, but the situation in that country makes it unlikely it would get chosen.
We just need Shanghai to win the 2028 summer games and this could be China's "Olympic Century".
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