IOC vs Public

Would you vote for Germany to host the 2018 Winter Olympic games or would you vote for South Korea to host the 2018 Winter Olympic games? At the time this article was written the IOC was already voting on which country would host the 2018 Winter Olympic games. The vote was between Munich and Pyeongchang. The writer thought that Pyeongchang would win.

On Wednesday July 6, 2011 the International Olympic Committee was having a vote for who would host the 2018 Winter Olympic games. The IOC was in Durban (South Africa). This voting would be a secret ballot (not for the public to know about, until they have decided who would host the 2018 Winter Olympic games). The public didn’t know who would win the ballot, but they did know the ballot was between Munich, Annecy and Pyeongchang.

Even thought the IOC was voting on three cities (Munch-Germany, Annecy-France and Pyeongchang- South Korea), the public knew that France was not going to win the ballot.The writer pointed out that if Munich won then Munich would host the Winter and Summer Olympic games. The writer never gave information about why France was not going to win, but the writer did gave a lot of other information about why Pyeongchang should win.

Furthermore, it seems that the writer agreed with the public because in his article he convinced his readers to agree with them. If Pyeongchang got to host the 2018 Winter Olympic games then Seoul would be more able to promote winter sports in Asia. An international women’s Olympic figure skating champion came from Pyeongchang. She tried to convince the IOC to let her home city host the 2018 winter Olympic games because Pyeongchang lost two times to other cites (and I think every other country had hosted a summer or winter Olympic games and it should be Pyeongchang’s turn to host the 2018 Olympic games).

The writer thought that Pyeongchang would win because an Olympic women figure skating champion tried to convince the IOC to let Pyeongchang host the 2018 Winter Olympic games. The IOC was planning to have a secret ballot to decide who would host the 2018 Winter Olympic games. Even though the vote was between three countries, the public thought that it was between Munich and Pyeongchang.