2018 Winter Olympics closing ceremony in Seoul. First, the Greek flag was raised while its anthem played. The Olympic flag was then lowered and passed, by the mayor of Pyeongchang County, Shim Jae-kook, to IOC President, Thomas Bach, who then handed it over to the mayor of Beijing, Chen Jining. This was then followed by the raising of the flag of China, and the playing of its anthem. The flag will be raised again in Tokyo, Japan, for the opening ceremony of the 2020 Summer Olympics on 24 July 2020. Beijing, the host city of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, presented a special performance "See
Munich bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics for new and planned transportation improvements. The slogan of the Games was "Die Spiele im Herzen" (The games at heart) and it was also being tagged as "the friendly Games". The logo was a stylized M, reminiscent of the Bavarian mountain silhouettes as well as the awnings in Munich's Olympic Park. Munich bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics Munich 2018 was an unsuccessful bid by Munich, Germany for the 2018 edition of the Winter Olympic Games. Munich hosted the 1972 Summer Olympics, and if selected would have been the first city to host both the Summer and Winter Games, but