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Originally Posted by Red Menace
I think this has more to do with the fact that the next 2 Winter Olympics are in Asia (how did that happen by the way??).
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Korea lost two very close races with Vancouver and Sochi (both times, they actually won the first round of voting, but lost on the second ballot), so they were seen as due to win the 2018 bid.
For 2022, Munich was an early favourite, but they pulled their bid after they lost public support. Other European cities, like Oslo and Stockholm also considered bidding, but eventually pulled out (Oslo actually submitted a bid, but retracted it before the final vote). It ended up being a two city race and Beijing won by 4 votes.