By Chris Freud
Beijing will host the 2022 Winter Olympics.Beijing won the honor over Almaty, Kazakhstan, on Friday, and the two cities were the only candidates.This makes perfect sense.What in the wide, wide world of sports is going on here?These ain’t your father’s OlympicsIssue No. 1 is that the Winter Games have grown up. With skiing, sledding, speed skating, amateur hockey and figure skating as the main events, the International Olympic Committee could put the quadrennial gathering in a winter resort such as Lake Placid, New York, (1932 and 1980) or Innsbruck, Austria, (1964 and 1976).Figure skating, whether one likes it or not, …
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