Olympic Committee to Announce 2022 Host City

The International Olympic Committee decides Friday which city will be the venue for the 2022 winter Olympics -- Beijing, China, or Almaty, Kazakhstan. The committee is holding its 128th Session in Kuala Lumpur through August 3. Beijing hosted the summer Olympics in 2008 and says it will reuse many of those venues for the winter Games. Kazakhstan has never hosted an Olympics. China is seen as the safer choice, offering repeat venues and good sponsorship opportunities. But Kazakhstan...

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