Applications for the 2022 Winter Olympics

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On June 6, 2013, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) opened the first phase of the application process for hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics . Interested cities had to submit their application to the IOC by November 14, 2013 at the latest. Ultimately, only the cities of Almaty and Beijing upheld their application.

poll

The vote on the venue took place at the 128th IOC meeting on July 31, 2015 in Kuala Lumpur , with Beijing prevailing against the Kazakh city ​​of Almaty with 44:40 votes . After there had been technical problems in the first round, in which 89 out of 100 IOC members had participated, another round was carried out in which 85 votes were cast. IOC President Thomas Bach abstained.

Election results
city Country Election result
Beijing China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 44
Almaty KazakhstanKazakhstan Kazakhstan 40

Candidate cities

Almaty, Kazakhstan

After the application of the Kazakh city ​​of Almaty for the 2014 Games was not approved for the final selection, a second attempt followed. In August 2013, Almaty was the first city to announce its candidacy. Thanks to the investments for the 2011 Asian Winter Games , the region has a good winter sports infrastructure.

The following systems already exist or only needed to be modernized or expanded:

Almaty

Shymbulak

Tabagan

  • Freestyle skiing and snowboard park

Since further sports facilities are to be built for the 2017 Winter Universiade , only an additional arena for ice hockey and a bobsleigh run would have had to be built for the Olympic Games.

Beijing, China

Beijing applied to host the 2022 Winter Olympics on November 5, 2013. The snow competitions are to take place in Zhangjiakou in Hebei Province, 160 km away . There is a large ski area there. In Beijing, on the other hand, all ice cream competitions are planned. A high-speed railway line still to be built is to reduce the travel time between Beijing and Zhangjiakou to 40 minutes.

Beijing has already hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics .

The following systems already exist and only need to be modernized or expanded:

Aborted or not submitted applications

Seven out of a total of nine applicant cities withdrew their announced applications. In all cases, they failed because of excessively high cost expectations, or were largely rejected by the population in referendums and surveys.

Barcelona, ​​Spain

Originally there were two interested parties in Spain for hosting the Winter Olympic Games : Saragossa in Aragon and Barcelona in Catalonia. However, Zaragoza had already withdrawn for financial reasons. The ice competitions would have been held in Barcelona, ​​the snow competitions in the Pyrenees in the province of Girona . On October 17, 2013, it became known that the Catalan metropolis of Barcelona was declining to run, according to Mayor Xavier Trias. The reason is the reduction in state funds. Barcelona has already hosted the 1992 Summer Olympics .

Krakow, Poland

In October 2012, Krakow announced that it would apply together with Zakopane to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. The official application should be made together with Slovakia at the end of 2013. B. the alpine ski race was planned.

On May 25, 2014, 69.7% of Krakow's citizens voted against hosting the Winter Games in a referendum . The turnout was 36%, so the decision is valid.

The following systems already exist before the application and would only have had to be modernized or expanded:

Krakow

Zakopane

Lviv, Ukraine

Also Lviv competed to host the Winter Olympics 2022. On June 30 in 2014 was in Ukraine known that the application due to the economic and political situation in the country is withdrawn.

There are numerous sports facilities in the mountains, e.g. B. a biathlon stadium and a normal hill.

Lviv

Tysovets

  • Normal hill
  • Biathlon stadium

Munich, Germany

Ballot for the referendum on November 10, 2013 in Munich
Advertising from supporters of the Olympic Games at Marienplatz

After Munich was defeated in the election for the 2018 Winter Olympics, an application for 2022 failed on November 10, 2013, when the necessary majority was not achieved in all four referendums.

Municipality / district Votes against in% Participation in%
Munich 52.10 28.9
Garmisch-Partenkirchen 51.56 55.80
District of Traunstein 59.67 39.98
District of Berchtesgadener Land 54.10 38.25

After a decision by the DOSB, Munich initially did not want to apply for 2022 until further notice. After the favored USA waived , however, the considerations about a possible candidacy in 2022 reignited. On June 5, 2013, the Munich City Council commissioned the administration to improve the concept that had failed in the previous application with regard to a candidacy for 2022 ("to optimize "). At the same time, he decided to carry out a referendum on November 10, 2013 and made an application dependent on the approval of the population. A vote recommendation by the council majority was attached to the voting notification; the arguments of the opponents were not mentioned. The Deutsche Bahn advertised approval for the Olympic application in S-Bahn trains with loudspeaker announcements.

With the participation of Ruhpolding , the sports facilities that already exist there should also be included in the event concept. After applying for the 2018 Winter Games, at which Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Schönau am Königssee were to be two more venues, Munich wanted to apply for the 2022 Winter Games with three winter sports regions.

On September 30, 2013, the DOSB approved Munich's application for 2022. According to the most recent concept, the total costs were estimated at 3.3 billion euros, of which 1.5 billion were earmarked for the event budget and 1.8 billion for construction investments.

An award of the Olympic Games to the city of Munich could also have failed because the Federal Republic of Germany cannot guarantee the protection of the Olympic emblem and the Olympic names required by the IOC for the award of the Olympic Games. On July 1st, 2004 the law for the protection of the Olympic emblem and the Olympic designations (Olympiaschutzgesetz - OlympSchG) came into force, the object of which is the protection of the Olympic emblem and the Olympic designations in the Federal Republic of Germany. At that time, the Federal Court of Justice was pending an appeal under file number I ZR 131/13 , in which the Federal Court of Justice had to examine whether advertising with “Olympic prizes” and an “Olympic discount” violated § 3 of the OlympSchG, but also whether the OlympSchG as such is constitutional.

On May 15, 2014, the Federal Court of Justice granted the appeal and referred the proceedings back to the Court of Appeal. The BGH came to the conclusion: "The use of the statements 'Olympic prices' and 'Olympic discount' as such does not represent an unfair exploitation of the appreciation of the Olympic Games or the Olympic Movement."

St. Moritz, Switzerland

In a national preliminary round on August 11, 2011, Davos and St. Moritz prevailed 8: 4 against Geneva . St. Moritz hosted the Winter Olympics in 1928 and 1948 . As of December 2011, the project was no longer named Davos / St. Moritz , but only in the name of St. Moritz . The prerequisite for an official candidacy would have been acceptance by the Graubünden voters. On March 3, 2013, the citizens of St. Moritz clearly agreed with 1153: 716 and Davos with 2749: 2079 the cantonal proposal for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Graubünden , but the canton of Graubünden as a whole rejected the loan for the candidacy with 41,758 votes to 37,540 (52.66% to 47.43%). The Olympia 2022 project thus failed.

The following systems already exist or only needed to be modernized or expanded:

Davos

St. Moritz

Stockholm, Sweden

The Swedish capital Stockholm applied together with the city of Åre to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. In Åre there are already regular women's Alpine Ski World Cups in slalom and giant slalom. On January 17, 2014, Mayor Sten Nordin announced that Stockholm was withdrawing its application. The Stockholm application failed due to resistance from the population and parts of politics. The reason given was concerns about high costs.

Stockholm had already hosted the 1912 Summer Olympics .

The following systems already exist or only needed to be modernized or expanded:

Stockholm

Are

Oslo, Norway

After Oslo successfully hosted the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2011 , the city considered applying for the 2022 Olympics. On June 5, 2013, the city council decided to run. In the referendum for the Winter Olympics on September 9, 2013, 53.45 percent of the Oslo population voted for a candidacy. However, the result of the citizens' vote was not binding.

On October 1, 2014, the government around Prime Minister Erna Solberg decided against providing the amount of state guarantees of at least EUR 3.04 billion required for an application, so that Oslo was also excluded from the group of applicants. In this decision, the long list of special requests (for example, reception at the king, separate lanes on the streets, expensive cell phone for each member, food around the clock) on the part of the IOC members should have played a role. Eli Grimsby, Director of the Norwegian Organizing Committee, had suggested that IOC members should bear their own costs and otherwise receive the same treatment as the athletes.

Oslo hosted the 1952 Winter Olympics .

The following systems already exist or only needed to be modernized or expanded:

Oslo

Ringebu

Øyer

Lillehammer

Other cities

Web links

Commons : Winter Olympics 2022  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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