China is clamping tighter on its bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics by promoting winter sports among the youth. (Photo : Reuters)
China's joint committee of Beijing Municipality and Zhangjiakou in Hebei Province has released its official promotion video for its bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, Women of China reported.
The video was titled "Joyful Rendezvous upon Pure Ice and Snow."
A successful bid will allow Beijing to hold the ice events, most of which will take place in Zhangjiakou's Chongli County. It will also make Beijing the first city to have held both the summer and winter games, according to Shanghaiist.
The events include Cross Country Skiing, Freestyle Skiing, Nordic Combined Skiing, Ski Jumping, Snowboarding and the Biathlon. Sliding sports and the Alpine Skiing would take place in Beijing's Yanqing County.
In July 2015, the International Olympic Committee will decide in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which between Beijing and Almaty in Kazakhstan will host the 2022 Winter Olympics.
After Oslo, Norway, withdrew in October, Beijing and Almaty became the only remaining bidders to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, which will occur in its traditional February schedule.
The 2022 games will not be affected by the rescheduled World Cup in Qatar.
To avoid the summer heat in Qatar, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is planning to move the World Cup to a January-February period.
"The Olympics should be maintained. The IOC will maintain their time because we already have been committed, the organizers have been organized, the broadcasting, the marketing partners," said the Association of National Olympic Committees president Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah.
Since the Winter Games arrangements are already irrevocable, it is upon the FIFA's discretion whether or not to hold the World Cup simultaneously with the 2022 Winter Olympics, according to Sheikh Ahmad, who also heads Asia's Olympic association.
If the FIFA keeps the World Cup's January-February schedule, Almaty may lose its chance to host the summer games in 2022.
This is one of the issues to be addressed by the IOC's "Olympic Agenda 2020" reforms, which will be voted on at the committee's special assembly in Monaco in December, Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
