EXPLAINER: Why does Beijing have the Olympics again?
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FILE - President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach opens the envelope announcing that Beijing has won the bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games at the 128th International Olympic Committee session in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on July 31, 2015. The Beijing Winter Olympics open in just under two months and are now the target to a diplomatic boycott by the United States with others likely to follow. (AP Photo/Joshua Paul, File)FILE - A visitor rests near the logos of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics at the China Beijing International High-Tech Expo in Beijing on Sept. 25, 2021. The Beijing Winter Olympics open in just under two months and are now the target to a diplomatic boycott by the United States with others likely to follow. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)FILE - Participants wave flags with the logos of 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics before a launch ceremony to reveal the motto for the Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Beijing on Sept. 17, 2021. The Beijing Winter Olympics open in just under two months and are now the target to a diplomatic boycott by the United States with others likely to follow. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)FILE - A crew member leaps to fix a logo for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics before a launch ceremony to reveal the motto for the Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Beijing on Sept. 17, 2021. The Beijing Winter Olympics open in just under two months and are now the target to a diplomatic boycott by the United States with others likely to follow. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)FILE - A Sochi 2014 logo of the 2014 Winter Olympics standing amid mud and rubble in front of snow-covered mountains is reflected in a puddle, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia on Feb. 3, 2014. How did Beijing land the Winter Olympics, so soon after it was host to the Summer Olympics in 2008? Potential cities in Europe dropped out of the bidding in the wake of the scandal-ridden 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The widely advertised price tag for Sochi of $51 billion also frightened away bidders. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer, File)FILE - Fireworks explode during the opening ceremony in the National Stadium at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing on Aug. 8, 2008. How did Beijing land the Winter Olympics, so soon after it was host to the Summer Olympics in 2008? It becomes the first city in Olympic history to host both Winter and Summer Games. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, File)
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FILE - President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach opens the envelope announcing that Beijing has won the bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games at the 128th International Olympic Committee session in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on July 31, 2015. The Beijing Winter Olympics open in just under two months and are now the target to a diplomatic boycott by the United States with others likely to follow. (AP Photo/Joshua Paul, File)
