Beijing stands a big chance of becoming the first city in the world to host both the summer and winter editions of the Olympic Games. The International Olympic Committee is said to be likely to make a choice now between the Chinese capital and Almaty, capital of Kazakhstan, without re-starting the bidding process, after the pullout of Oslo from the bid for the host city of the 2022 Winter Olympics, due to cost concerns. Earlier, Stockholm as well as Krakow, Poland, and Lviv, Ukraine had withdrawn their bids. Beijing, which hosted the Summer Olympics in 2008, has proposed to re-use the related facilities and to add a winter sports center in the city for the event.

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