Cool..Sweden would be an ideal host for the winter olympics.
The main interest of the people on this board of course is what it is, but there's far more to the Winter Olympics than hockey, you know.
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My money's on Beijing, unless no surprise candidates show up. Almaty will be too risky after all the flak the Sochi games got. Not that China is much better, but at least they're the devil everyone knows.
Geographically, neither is ideal, placing too many back-to-back games in the same region (well, in the people's minds at least, since the distances in Asia are pretty grand in reality).
Of course, the IOC only has itself to blame. That list of special privileges demanded by them released by the Norwegians is a staggering read. Truly makes one wonder why a single so-called "civilized" country would wish to organize these games anymore.