The paper discusses the application of Oslo to be the host of winter Olympic Games in 2022 from a national point of view. A departure for the discussion is that originally many cities in democratic countries were interested in being the host, but one after another has withdrawn its application. Summer 2014 there was three candidate Almaty (Kazakhstan), Beijing (China), and Oslo (Norway). Two of the cities in undemocratic countries, only Oslo are from a democratic country. The empirical finding shows that the project "Oslo as a host of Olympic Games in 2022" is not lucrative from a national point of view, and the parliament should not vote for state guarantee and support the project with tax money. When this paper was edited Oslo city withdrew its application. This left Almaty and Beijing as the sole applicants for being the host of winter Olympic Games in 2022. The paper states that to make the Olympic Games sustainable, the costs of the arrangement should be reduced, making it possible for also democratic cities / countries to be the host.
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