When people speak of 3 consecutive Olympics in Asia, they are including the summer edition: 2018 Pyeongchang, 2020 Tokyo, 2022 China or Kazakhstan.
Aha! So that's it!
The only Olympic Games I ever pay any attention to are the Winter version, so I hadn't a clue where any of the upcoming Summer Games were being held!
Yeah, I can see now why the rest of the world might be getting a bit annoyed. But, at the end of the day, Europe and North America have had so many Olympics over the past century. It's only fair that the IOC try to even things up a bit.
South America, Africa and Australia have not had many Olympic Games, but they are not really suitable for a Winter Games. But, there is a vast swathe of Asia that has never held any Olympics, and Kazakhstan has the facilities already in place, so why not go there?!
Incidentally, I just looked up the bidders for the 2020 Summer Games. Why was Japan awarded their FOURTH Olympics (after the 1964 Smmer Games in Tokyo; the 1972 Winter Games in Sapporo; and the 1988 Winter Games in Nagano)???!!!
Surely it would have been fairer to award them to one of the other bidders, as none of them had hosted any Olympics before. Especially if they selected Turkey, since there has never been an Olympics in the Middle East.
But, hey!
Thank you for the clarification, gravy, and sorry Krunchii
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