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Beijing Olympics may refer to: 2008 Summer Olympics, Games of the XXIX Olympiad; 2022 Winter Olympics, XXIV Winter Olympic Games; See also.
[6] [7] The opening ceremony was lauded by spectators and numerous international presses as spectacular, spellbinding, and by many accounts, "the greatest ever in the history of Olympics". [8] [9] [10] Beijing hosted the 2022 Winter Olympics, making it the first city ever to host both the Summer and Winter Games.
The bidding calendar was announced by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in October 2012, with the application deadline set for 14 November 2013. [7] The IOC Executive Board reviewed the bids from all applicant cities on 7 July 2014 and selected three cities, Oslo (Norway), Almaty (Kazakhstan), and Beijing (China), as the final candidates.
This week, Beijing will become the first city in the world to have hosted both the Summer and Winter Olympics. The 2008 Summer Games were a spectacular celebration, a sort of coming-out party for ...
However, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics were postponed for an entire year due to COVID-19. Despite the ongoing pandemic, the Winter Olympics are still scheduled to take place as planned in Beijing, the ...
The 2022 Winter Olympics are set to begin Feb. 4 in Beijing. Despite Omicron fears, draconian COVID-19 countermeasures and endless controversy, organizers are pressing ahead with plans for the ...
The 2008 Summer Olympics were held in Beijing, People's Republic of China, from 8 August to 24 August 2008. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees (NOC) participated. Overall, 302 events in 28 sports were held; 165 events were opened to men, 127 were opened to women and 10 were mixed events. [1]
An Olympic worker in a hazmat suit wheels luggages at the Beijing Capital International Airport ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics on February 02, 2022 in Beijing, China. (Annice Lyn/Getty Images ...