Beijing looks fair bet for 2022 Winter Games, despite lack of enthusiasm
Beijing looks like an improbable front-runner to win the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics.
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Olympics-Beijing looks fair bet for 2022 Winter Games, despite lack of enthusiasm
Beijing looks like an improbable front-runner to win the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. With Oslo dropping out of the race last year, citing worries over costs and the lack of popular support, Beijing, which hosted the 2008 Summer Games to wide acclaim, is left facing the Kazakh city of Almaty. Almaty previously bid for the 2014 Winter Olympics, but did not make the final shortlist of three cities.
Read moreUK online grocer Ocado confident about 2015 prospects
LONDON (Reuters) – British online grocer Ocado outperformed its traditional supermarket rivals over Christmas and said it was confident about prospects in 2015 despite an escalating price war. The firm, whose range includes products supplied by upmarket grocer Waitrose , said on Wednesday sales growth in December continued at the rate it achieved in the final quarter of its 2013-14 financial year
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