Lausanne (pps) Six candidates have submitted a bid to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to host the 2022 Olympic Winter Games. Within the deadline, the IOC headquarters in Lausanne received the applications of Almaty (Kazakhstan), Lviv (Ukraine), Krakow (Poland), Beijing (China), Oslo (Norway) and Stockholm (Sweden). The decision on who will host the Games is due to be made during the IOC Session in Malaysia’s capital of Kuala Lumpur on July 31, 2015.

Sochi (Russia) is host of the upcoming XXII Olympic Winter Games on February 7-23, 2014. The 2018 Winter Games will be carried out by Pyeongchang (South Korea).