3 Destinations Short-Listed to host the 2018 Winter Olympics

Annecy in France, Munich in Germany and PyeongChang in South Korea are the three destinations to have submitted official bids to host the Winter Olympics in 2018.

Each bid city’s National Organising Committee notified the International Olympic Committee of their nomination before the October 15 deadline.

France has hosted three editions of the Winter Olympics, most recently in 1992 in Albertville.

Munich confirmed its run for the 2018 Games by officially launching the bid at the IOC’s headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland earlier this month.

A city has never before hosted both the Summer and Winter Games, and Munich is now attempting to duplicate its success in attracting the Olympics back after hosting the 1972 Olympics.

Pyeongchang formally submitted its bid last month.

The city narrowly failed in its bids for 2010 and 2014, losing by three votes to Vancouver for next year’s event and by just four votes to Sochi for the 2014 event.

The winner will be announced in Durban, South Africa in July 2011. Before that the cities face a two-stage evaluation process including the completing of a questionnaire and the submission of a detailed file explaining its hosting plan.