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BEIJING (AP) — The lack of a strong winter sports culture in the country is one of Beijing’s main considerations as it bids to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. The organizers responded by pointing to the great prospect of expansion and now claim to have more than fulfilled their purpose of involving three hundred million Chinese in skiing, hockey and other bloodless weather hobbies. Beijing won the Olympic bid in 2015 when six European candidates withdrew and the International Olympic Committee ended up with two candidates: Beijing and Almaty, Kazakhstan. On Thursday, the director general of the organizing committee’s plan-making...
