VICE Sports World News Roundup: July 31
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VICE Sports World News Roundup: July 31

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It's the 31st of July, 2015, and Sepp Blatter is still president of FIFA.

Breaking news. The 2022 Olympics will be in China.

BREAKING: Beijing selected to host 2022 Winter Olympics, defeating Almaty in IOC vote
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 31, 2015

The vote was incredibly close: 44-40 in favor of Beijing.
— Sam Borden (@SamBorden) July 31, 2015

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But that's not all!

For those wondering, Sepp Blatter is a IOC voter but did not cast a ballot after choosing not to travel to Kuala Lumpur.
— Sam Borden (@SamBorden) July 31, 2015

I wonder why Blatter didn't want to travel?

Anyway, in other FIFA/Blatter news, the Mafia Museum in Las Vegas is going to have a exhibition on FIFA. Amazing.

Here's video of Didier Drogba's introduction to the Montreal Impact. For all the noise about him being a French-speaking superstar in the capital of French Canada, he speaks English at the press conference. Weird.

Barcelona's Pedro is reportedly close to a move to Manchester United. I think it will be good for him, as he seems underutilized in Spain. Not everybody agrees. Some people are pretty worked up about the prospect of him leaving Spain:

CONCACAF President Alfredo Hawit will personally lead a review of CONCACAF's refereeing setup. This is the kind of outside perspective and transparency we need at in soccer. Just kidding! It's the opposite of that.

And that's pretty much it! Here's a video of Vidal getting nutmegged at his first training session with Bayern Munich.