Beijing has won the bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. It was not a big surprise, considering the Chinese government's determination to grow the country's involvement in sports and the fact that the Chinese capital will be able to use some of the facilities already built for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, such as the Bird's Nest. Local authorities are planning to build a new railroad link that would cut transportation to the snow slopes in the mountains to 70 minutes.

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