July 16, 2026

Oslo put forward a candidate in November 2013 before pulling out, and Vancouver hosted the earlier Winter Games in 2010, which made Finland's Olympic Committee suggest a joint Tahko-Kuopio-Helsinki plan of its own. Which Olympic host-picking contest was it?

A Bids for the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics
B United States at the 2016 Summer Olympics
C Bids for the 2022 Winter Olympics
D Australia at the 2020 Summer Olympics

The 2022 Winter Olympics bidding was famously rocky: Stockholm, Oslo, Krakow and Lviv all pulled out, leaving only Beijing and Almaty as the last two candidates. Finland's Olympic Committee had floated a Tahko-Kuopio-Helsinki plan during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Beijing won and became the first city to host both a Summer and a Winter Olympics.

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