Alfons Hoermann, President of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) presents Hamburg as a possible German city bid for the Olympic Games in 2024, during a news conference in Frankfurt March 16, 2015. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski
BERLIN (Reuters) - Munich would have easily defeated Beijing and Almaty in the race to stage the 2022 Winter Olympics if they had gone ahead with a bid, according to German sports chief Alfons Hoermann.
"It is bitter that Almaty and Beijing are the only ones left," he told a regional event on Tuesday evening. "It is now clear that Munich would have been served the Games on a silver platter."
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