{"id":78162,"date":"2015-07-31T06:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=78162"},"modified":"2015-07-31T07:56:25","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T12:56:25","slug":"beijing-selected-2022-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=78162","title":{"rendered":"Beijing selected 2022 winter olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) \u2013 Beijing has been selected to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, becoming the first city awarded both the winter and summer games.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Beijing defeated Almaty, Kazakhstan, in a vote of the International Olympic Committee on Friday. The voting numbers were not immediately released.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Chinese capital, which hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics, came in as the favorite. Despite a lack of natural snow and winter conditions, Beijing was seen by the IOC as a reliable and safe choice.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Almaty had hoped to bring the games to Central Asia for the first time and raise Kazakhstan\u2019s profile on the international stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) \u2013 Beijing has been selected to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, becoming the first city awarded both the winter and summer games. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Beijing defeated Almaty, Kazakhstan, in a vote of the International Olympic Committee on Friday. The voting numbers were not immediately released. \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78164,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78162\/revisions\/78164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}