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By Evan Bleier When China dropped close to $42 million to host the Summer Olympics in Beijing in 2008, that price tag dwarfed the previous record of $15 billion that was paid by Athens to host the Games in 2004. With the Games set to return to Beijing on Friday, China is once again about to be hit with a monster bill. It won’t be as pricey as ’08, but will be 10 times higher than what hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics was projected to cost, according to Insider. Per Insider, China estimated that costs for hosting the upcoming Winter Games would come in at around $3.9 billion. Instead, after doz…