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BEIJING get Winter Olympics by the IOC delegates today. Anything else will be a sensation, but not necessarily wrong:

•• In the choice between two very different candidates, just winter city Almaty in Kazakhstan the characteristics of proximity and sports culture as the central Olympic management wants to find in the future organizer cities.

The challenge is that the Chinese political and economic weight trumps considerations of more sober Olympic Games. This makes it too difficult for the Olympic leaders say no to China.

CHINA own sporting challenge of this arrangement is the lack of winter. Even with the traditional snødisiplinene located 19 mil from Beijing, there is little to do with climate change. The plants around Zhangjiakou is not snow-sure. Or more metrological precisely:

•• It will be a surprise for the participants in the 2022 Winter Olympics at all see natural snow.

Here is the PR-wise daring of Chinese to launch the Olympic slogan “A friendly rendezvous with pure ice and snow.” For just lack of clean snow is going to be debated for years to come.

PLAN is currently using water from reservoirs in the area. Technically it goes certainly straightforward. The professional level of artificial snowmaking pressed forward in step with increasingly warmer climates.

The problem is that water itself is scarce in the nature reserve close to the thought Olympic facilities in Zhangjiakou. It means an increasingly international focus on the Chinese natural resource management; the manner of air pollution was the talk in 2008 during the summer games in Beijing. By no later than the hours before the morning’s voting assured the Chinese authorities that they would be environmentally conscious in snow production’s.

So now also the IOC’s own experts have been clear in criticism:

– Northern China suffers from severe water shortages, and the area between Beijing and Zhangjikaou emerges as a steppe. The Commission believes that Beijing2022 have underestimated how much water is required to make snow, it says in the evaluation of the two hopefuls organizers which was published about a month ago.

THE same plan says, however, that the Chinese enough practical would solve the water needs his. There are few who doubt. Neither Beijing or Almaty will stand on its ability to deliver a good sporting event:

– Let me assure you. If you choose Beijing, the Chinese people arrange a fantastic Olympics, said the Chinese president Xi Jinping in a recent video greeting to the IOC Congress.

It was a clear message on what political prestige Chinese associate with it to get Winter Games, and in that way make his capital the first city in the world which has hosted both summer -and winter Olympics.

There is a pressure it becomes difficult for the rest of the world to resist.

SAME TIME the strong state interest for it to arrange these toys guarantee a fine sporting result. This is the crux of the problem at this award after one western city after another withdrew from the competition:

•• Winter Olympics will still go to a totalitarian country.

No price for the Olympic movement’s lack of penetration in the Western democracies, and allows the IOC President Thomas Bach its first attempt to renew the Games will be tested against a powerful opponent.

When the question is how much gravity difference will determine in the coming years to 2022.