2022 Winter Olympics replace the Beijing Nanyuan Airport and operate together with the Beijing Capital International Airport. The estimated budget for the games is US$3.9 billion, less than one-tenth of the $43 billion spent on the 2008 Summer Olympics. The 2022 Winter Olympics are scheduled to include 109 events over 15 disciplines in 7 sports. "Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of medal events contested in each separate discipline." In October 2016, the International Ski Federation (FIS) announced plans to begin sanctioning women's competitions in Nordic combined, with the objective of contesting the discipline at the Olympic level for the first time in
Lebanon at the 2010 Winter Olympics Committee on 31 December 1947. The Lebanese have sent delegations to most Summer Olympics and Winter Olympic Games since then, missing the Summer Olympics only once, in 1956, and the Winter Olympics twice, in 1994 and 1998. The Lebanese delegation to Vancouver consisted of three alpine skiers; one man, Ghassan Achi and two women, Jacky Chamoun and Chirine Njeim. Njeim was chosen as the flag bearer for the opening ceremony, while Achi was chosen to carry the flag for the closing ceremony. The 25 year old Chirine Njeim made her third Winter Olympic appearance after competing in the 2002 and