2023-10-15 09:58:56
The IOC will award the 2030 and 2034 Winter Games in one fell swoop next year. The members of the International Olympic Committee decided this on Sunday at their general meeting without any dissenting votes. The double award should take place at the IOC session shortly before the Summer Games in Paris in 2024. For Carinthia and Slovenia, which had a loose interest in 2034, this timeline is hardly manageable.
With Salt Lake City, the Austrian-Slovenian vision would be a big favorite anyway. The US National Olympic Committee (USOPC) said on Thursday that it would focus not on a campaign for 2030, but for four years following that. Sapporo, which decided not to bid for 2030 following a massive bribery scandal related to the 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, is now considering a bid for 2034 or later.
Vancouver had also already said goodbye to the 2030 race because the Canadian town does not receive any financial support from tax revenue. Possible candidates for 2030 might be France, Sweden and Switzerland. The next Winter Games will take place in Milan and Cortina d”Ampezzo in Italy in 2026.
Before its decision in Mumbai, the IOC had pointed out the consequences of climate change for future editions of the Winter Olympics. The selection committee of the umbrella organization for the Olympic Games had determined in two studies that in 2040 only ten countries will definitely be able to host the snow competitions at the Winter Paralympics that take place following the Winter Games. The IOC is therefore discussing a possible rotation system for the hosts and a different composition of the competition program for the future.
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