Munich bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics 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 that honor went to Beijing four years later. Berlin and Hamburg were considering a summer games bid for 2024 or 2028, but the German Olympic Committee put priority on the Munich bid. After Salzburg's failure to capture the 2014 bid, Germany felt it has a better chance and would have preferred
Kraków bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics view of the negative result of the referendum Krakow would withdraw its bid for the Winter Olympics. In 2000 Kraków were chosen by the European Union as the European Capital of Culture. In 2012, during UEFA European Championship none of the events were held in Kraków, although English, Dutch and Italian teams chose the city as their base-camp. Kraków Arena will be one of the venues hosting the 2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship tournament. Kraków also bid to host events of 2015 European Capital of Sport (lost to Turin). In 2016 World Youth Day will be organized, with approximately