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The gouverment says YES to Olympic games 2026 in Stockholm/Åre. They support this bid. https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/a/QoJvGJ/regeringen-sager-ja-till-vinter-os-2026

There's only one winner and it's Sweden. It's 50/50. You need to do well in both jury and televoters. Italy's 6th place in jury voting is too bad to win ESC. Already in 2011 we had this issue. Juries wanted Italy to win but televoters wanted Azerbaijan ( actually it's really Sweden that won televote). If it was only televoting then Italy wouldn't be close to that 2nd place. They would be 11th instead. This is how the rules work. They will not always agree. But the total points is the most important.

Expressen write SOC haven't given up the hope to get Winter olympics to Stockholm/Åre. They will start to work on a bid for 2026. http://www.expressen.se/sport/sveriges-plan--for-att-fa-olympiska-spelen/ Realistic or not I think it's nice to see they want it.

Sweden: Måns Zelmerlöw with the song Heroes. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CBCdb6vNuiM

Very disappointing but not surprising news. Many of the swedish athletes are very disappointed with Stockholm's council's decision. But this is not surprising. Right now Sweden have a gouverment that HATE sports. Sweden and SOK can only hope that will be an another gouverment both In STHLM and Sweden in october. This will not help the bid for 2022 but in the future it will maybe help.

Krakow needs an another country to help them. Not sure if that is positive. Sweden will do everything alone. I see a big problem with to countries host the games.

The same for you that bash people that points out Krakow's weakness. Why YOU can't accept that your beloved Krakow has a main weakness?

I hate how some people that now praise and defend Krakow as the best bid ever is also those people who bash Stockholm. How do it feel when your favorite is bashed? Must feels good right. Lol! A 38 years old that's saying shut up to a person that just say her opinion? You surely act as a child more than Tony E.

Wow, are you from Poland or what? Why are you so defensive about Krakow? I wonder if YOU are really 38 years old? You act as a child.

Some people in here that bash Tony E for his age act as 5 years olds kids themselves. What about to look at yourself in the mirror before bash anyone else?

Well the problem is rather that people critiqize bids even before they seen the plans. Yes Markun have done great work here but still it's easier to do that with the plans that have been presented.

My question is do they need to call it Stockholm/Åre? It's only few events that will held in Åre. Why not just call it Stockholm 2022? That would make it clear that is Stockholm that will host WOG 2022 with only little help from Åre.

What happened? The responses to a Stockholm/Åre 2022 seems much more positiv now. Why? Anyway, go Stockholm and Sweden. It's really time for a swedish wog,

Well they who really want to see them can do that. It's just go to Åre. I don't see any difference. Every sport events have their own spectators... There are som much other things to watch in STHLM instead. Among them icehockey which will be probably the main sport event for spectators in Sweden. I don't see alpine skiing as crown jewel either.

and what about equestrian and sailing then? There many different events of them too. But still China was allowed to host them 2000km and 670km away from Bejing. What's the different to Alpine events being hosted in Åre?