File - In this July 7, file photo, Odebrecht personnel work on the Line 4 of the subway that is under construction in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. The Associated Press. All rights reserved. In the Olympic games in London, four different teams didn't play nicely. Two South Korean, one Indonesian, and one Chinese team were all expelled from the games for match-fixing.
Even the audience couldn't miss the pretense, reportedly booing at the competitor's dull play. They were all accused and disqualified for purposely trying to lose their matches in order to improve their draw in the next round.
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Adrienn Banhegyi performs with Cirque de Soleil, and holds two world records for jump roping! Oslo and Stockholm, probably regarded as the preferred venues as the IOC attempted to return the Olympics to traditional European winter venues, pulled out because of costs and politics. Norwegian and IOC officials also traded public barbs in about their dissatisfaction with each other.
Bach acknowledged at the time in a interview that the Winter Olympics were a tough sell. The choice for the IOC members came down to two authoritarian governments that did not require any public vote, and also had few constraints on spending: Beijing and Almaty.
Beijing said Almaty tried to win the vote, reminding that it was a winter sports city surrounded by mountains and natural snow. It was a dig at Beijing, which has no winter sports tradition and little natural snow in the areas picked for skiing. Beijing and some IOC members countered that skiers actually prefer artificial snow. The IOC also saw Beijing as a huge winter-sports business opportunity.
Beijing won by four votes, which was described as much closer than expected, in a second attempt using paper ballots. A first attempt at electronic voting was scrapped citing technical issues. IOC members chose what they believed to be the less risky option, which has not turned out that way. The IOC choice was sharply criticized at the time by human rights groups, which noted that the Olympics had not improved rights' conditions in China.
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