TheJakartaPost
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
Popular Reads
Top Results
No results found. Please check your search term and try again
Can't find what you're looking for?
View all search results
Popular Reads
Top Results
No results found. Please check your search term and try again
Can't find what you're looking for?
View all search resultsBeijing selected to host 2022 Winter Olympics
A reliable choice: Wang Anshun, Beijing mayor and president of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games Bid Committee, delivers a speech during Beijing's 2022 Olympic Winter Games bid presentation at the 128th IOC session in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday (AP/Vincent Thian)Beijing has been selected to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, becoming the first city awarded both the winter and summer games
Change text size
Gift Premium Articles
to Anyone
Share the best of The Jakarta Post with friends, family, or colleagues. As a subscriber, you can gift 3 to 5 articles each month that anyone can read—no subscription needed!
A reliable choice: Wang Anshun, Beijing mayor and president of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games Bid Committee, delivers a speech during Beijing's 2022 Olympic Winter Games bid presentation at the 128th IOC session in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday (AP/Vincent Thian) (AP/Vincent Thian)
A
span class="caption">A reliable choice: Wang Anshun, Beijing mayor and president of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games Bid Committee, delivers a speech during Beijing's 2022 Olympic Winter Games bid presentation at the 128th IOC session in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday (AP/Vincent Thian)
Beijing has been selected to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, becoming the first city awarded both the winter and summer games.
Beijing defeated Almaty, Kazakhstan, in a vote of the International Olympic Committee on Friday. The voting numbers were not immediately released.
The Chinese capital, which hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics, came in as the favorite. Despite a lack of natural snow and winter conditions, Beijing was seen by the IOC as a reliable and safe choice.
Almaty had hoped to bring the games to Central Asia for the first time and raise Kazakhstan's profile on the international stage. (++++)
