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Sunday, 31 January 2021
The choice of Beijing as host city for the 2022 Olympics, made on July 31 2015 at the 128th International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session in Kuala Lumpur, meant the Chinese capital would become the first city to host both the Summer and Winter Games, having staged the Summer event in 2008.
The award also put in place the last of three consecutive Olympics taking place in East Asia following the allotting of the 2018 Winter Games to Pyeongchang in South Korea and the 2020 Summer Games to Tokyo.
Whether Beijing - which will on Thursday (February 4) mark one year to go until its Games - will indeed be the third East Asian host of an Olympics in this period remains moot.