Add Krakow to the growing list of cities who do not want to host the 2022 Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n
The Polish city withdrew its bid this week after residents overwhelmingly voted against the plan, according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n
Now only four cities remain in the bidding process, and two of those may soon be ruled out — leaving only Kazakhstan and China as contenders.<\/p>\n
Krakow had proposed co-hosting the games with neighboring Slovakia, but more than 70 percent of the voters in Krakow’s referendum said they did not want to host the event.<\/p>\n
It is the latest city to reject the opportunity to host the games: Stockholm, Sweden, withdrew its bid in January citing cost; voters in Munich, Germany, rejected a proposal to host the games citing “greed” of the International Olympic Committee; and voters rejected a bid for Davos and St. Moritz to jointly hold the games.<\/p>\n
The rash of rejections could be attributed to the rising cost of hosting the games.<\/p>\n
The 2014 Olympics in Sochi, for example, ran up a bill of about $51 billion, while the 2008 Beijing Games cost nearly $40 billion.<\/p>\n
The proposal to host in Oslo, Norway, faces steep opposition from voters and from one-half of the coalition government, while the city of Lviv, Ukraine, is considered unlikely due to political unrest in the country.<\/p>\n
Almaty, Kazakhstan, and Beijing, China remain as the two cities which still seem to want to host the Winter Games.<\/p>\n
The IOC is set to meet in six weeks in Switzerland to select a short list of finalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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