Almaty has most of the venues already in place to host the 2022 Winter Olympics and would spend only a fraction of what Russia invested in the Sochi Games, leaders of the bid from Kazakhstan said ...

After a backlash against Sochi's $50 billion Winter Olympic extravaganza last year, the onus is on Almaty and its rival for the 2022 Games - Beijing - to show how they would host the games without ...

Kazakhstan hosted the 2011 Asian Games and will stage the Winter University Games in 2017. Almaty had kept virtually silent in recent weeks and months as Beijing pumped up its bid.

SOCHI, Russia (AP) Almaty has most of the venues already in place to host the 2022 Winter Olympics and would spend only a fraction of what Russia invested in the Sochi Games, leaders of the bid ...

Almaty has pleaded with International Olympic Committee members to not consider them a "risky" choice to host the 2022 Winter Games simply because the central Asian country of Kazakhstan is not ...

Beijing won its bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics on Friday, beating out the Kazakhstan city of Almaty.

Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, will launch seven new destinations from Abu Dhabi between ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - Seeking to cut into Beijing's status as favorite, leaders of the Kazakh bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics told the IOC on Tuesday that Almaty presents the ideal choice ...

There was disappointment in Almaty as it lost out to Beijing in the race to host the 2022 Olympic Winter Games by a mere four votes. A 500-strong crowd gathered in the mid-afternoon on July 31 in ...

Almaty’s bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics in Kazakhstan does not include a plan to share events with the capital of Astana, according to Around the Rings.

LONDON (AP) — The Kazakh city of Almaty came out battling Tuesday in its contest with rival favorite Beijing in the bidding for the 2022 Winter Games, portraying itself as the compact ...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) Instead of grand talk about how the Olympics will break new ground by going to a majority-Muslim country for the first time, or by ...