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China Pushes the World Aside to get Winter Games

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Aug 03, 2015
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The decision of the International Olympic Committee to award the 2022 Winter Olympics to Beijing appears to have been made on the basis of politics rather than reality, with the IOC turning down what demonstrably was a superior bid.

The last country standing, besides China, was Kazakhstan, whose manifestly better submission for the games to be held at th…

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