Lausanne (pps) There are only four candidates left to bid for the 2022 Olympic Winter Games. After 69.72 percent of the Polish residents in Krakow have voted against hosting the 2022 Winter Games in a referendum, the city of Krakow withdrew its bid. The remaining four possible host cities with the International Olympic Committee, IOC, are Almaty (Kazakhstan), Lviv (Ukraine), Beijing (China) and Oslo (Norway).

During its Executive Board Meeting on July 9, 2014, the IOC will decide which “applicant city” will become an official “candidate city”. The IOC will select the winning city in July 2015 during its IOC Session in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia).