<blockquote>The effect is the bidding for the 2022 Winter Games, which is now down to just two cities. The final vote comes next summer.
<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412370563488_1761">There's Beijing, China, which doesn't actually sit within 120 miles of a usable ski mountain, and there's Almaty, Kazakhstan, which in its bid touted itself as "the world's largest landlocked nation."</p>
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via <a href="https://sports.yahoo.com/news/why-no-one-wants-to-host-the-2022-olympics-225450509.html?soc_src=mediacontentstory">Why no one wants to host the 2022 Olympics - Yahoo Sports</a>.
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<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412370563488_1817">Essentially the only places interested in hosting the 2022 games are countries where actual citizens aren't allowed a real say in things – communist China and Kazakhstan, a presidential republic that coincidentally has only had one president since it split from the old USSR in 1989.</p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412370563488_1815">Essentially the entire world has told the IOC it's a corrupt joke.</p>
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