Lviv also withdraws from the race for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games

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Lviv also withdraws from the race for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games

After Stockholm and Krakow, Lviv has also decided to withdraw his candidacy to organize the 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

This was announced today quests'' the IOC, saying the city Ukrainian "will focus on a nomination for the'' edition 2026, dropping that for 2022.'' The decision is a result of the current political and economic situation of Ukraine''." Remain standing only 3 candidates to organize the XXIV Olympic Winter Games ALMATY (Kazakhstan) OSLO (Norway) BEIJING (China) In a purely theoretical, Oslo would be most favored. However, the organizing committee of the Scandinavian candidacy must contend with the hostility'' of the population (a recent poll says that only 24% of Norwegians would support the nomination, while 62% would not) and the ruling class (one of the parties of the ruling coalition has spoken out against the idea of'' apply) . Monday This will select the next officially the nominations, which will be sent by January 2015, the economic guarantees. In this respect, the Norwegian government will discuss in the fall whether to support the organizing committee or not.
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