Lviv bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics
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XXIV Olympic Winter Games XIII Paralympic Winter Games |
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Almaty · Beijing · Oslo |
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| City | Lviv, Ukraine |
| NOC | National Olympic Committee of Ukraine (UKR) |
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Lviv 2022 was a bid by the city of Lviv and the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine for the 2022 Winter Olympics. The IOC will select the host city for the 2022 Winter Olympics at the 128th IOC Session in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 31 July 2015. Lviv withdrew its bid on 30 June 2014.
On 27 May 2010, President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych stated during a visit to Lviv that Ukraine "will start working on the official nomination of our country as the holder of the Winter Olympic Games in Carpathians". Ukraine's only previous experience in hosting Olympic events was during the 1980 Summer Olympics hosted by Moscow, when, as part of the Soviet Union, Ukraine held several football matches in Kiev.
In September 2012, government of Ukraine approved a document about the technical-economic substantiation of the national project "Olympic Hope 2022". This was announced by Vladyslav Kaskiv, the head of Ukraine´s Derzhinvestproekt (State investment project). The organizers announced on their website venue plans featuring Lviv as the host city and location for the "ice sport" venues, Volovets (around 185 km (115 mi) from Lviv) as venue for the Alpine skiing competitions and Tysovets (around 130 km (81 mi) from Lviv) as venue for all other "snow sport" competitions. By March 2013 no other preparations than the feasibility study had been approved.
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