2030 Winter Olympics

XXVI Olympic Winter Games

Host city	TBD
Opening	8 February
Closing	24 February
Winter
← Milano–Cortina 2026 2034 →
Summer
← Los Angeles 2028 2032 →

The 2030 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXVI Olympic Winter Games, is an upcoming international multi-sport event. It will be organised in a city designated by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The winning bid for the host city will be announced at the 140th IOC Session in Mumbai, India, in 2023.

Bidding process

The new IOC bidding process was approved at the 134th IOC Session on 24 June 2019 in Lausanne, Switzerland. The key proposals, driven by the relevant recommendations from Olympic Agenda 2020, are:^[1][2]

• Establish a permanent, ongoing dialogue to explore and create interest among cities/regions/countries and National Olympic Committees for any Olympic event
• Create two Future Host Commissions (Summer and Winter Games) to oversee interest in future Olympic events and report to the IOC executive board
• Give the IOC Session more influence by having non-executive board members form part of the Future Host Commissions.

The IOC also modified the Olympic Charter to increase its flexibility by removing the date of election from 7 years before the games, and changing the host as a city from a single city/region/country to multiple cities, regions, or countries.

Future Host Winter Commissions

The full composition of the Winter Commissions, overseeing interested hosts or with potential hosts where the IOC may want to focus on, is as follows:^[3]

Future Host Winter Commissions for 2030 Winter Olympics

IOC members (4)	Other members (4)
Octavian Morariu (chair) Gunilla Lindberg Karl Stoss Samira Asghari	Zhang Hong (Athletes) Gian-Franco Kasper (AIOWF) Neven Ilic (NOCs) Rita van Driel (IPC)

Dialogue stages

According to Future Host Commission terms of reference with rules of conduct, the new IOC bidding system is divided to 2 dialogue stages are:^[4]

• Continuous dialogue: Non-committal discussions between the IOC and interested parties (City/Region/Country/NOC interested in hosting) with regard to hosting future Olympic events.
• Targeted dialogue: Targeted discussions with one or more interested parties (called preferred host(s)), as instructed by the IOC Executive Board. This follows a recommendation by the Future Host Commission as a result of continuous dialogue.

Bidding parties

The three first potential submitting bidding parties were revealed by Octavian Morariu, chair of Future Host Winter Commission, during 135th IOC Session at SwissTech Convention Center in Lausanne, Switzerland. He mentioned Sapporo of Japan is the furthest advanced of the three possible candidatures. While, Salt Lake City of the United States, and a joint bid from Barcelona and the Pyrenees region have conducted feasibility studies. Vancouver of Canada made a preliminary bid submission on February 2021.^[5][6]

Stakeholders

Stakeholders are those cities or regions that have expressed potential interests in hosting the Games. To date, six National Olympic Committees have expressed their interests. They are:

• Barcelona–Pyrenees, Spain, Andorra and France; Barcelona previously hosted the 1992 Summer Olympics, and earlier that year Albertville, the main candidate for Nordic Ski Jumping and Combined and Sliding events, hosted the 1992 Winter Olympics. Andorra, as the home of the Soldeu Alpine Skiing World Cup final resort, is the likely venue for it as La Molina, the former FIS Snowboarding World Championships 2011 resort, could co-host Snowboarding with Freestyle skiing. Spain would then host 8 sports, France 5 sports and Andorra, as mentioned, 1, the Alpine Skiing competitions.
• Sapporo, Japan; site of the 1972 Winter Olympics
• Salt Lake City, United States; site of the 2002 Winter Olympics
• Vancouver, Canada; site of the 2010 Winter Olympics. Vancouver hosted the 1960 and 2001 ISU World Figure Skating Championships, the 2009 ISU World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships, the 2019 IBSF Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships, the 1966 and 1987 World Men's Curling Championships and the 2013 FIL World Luge Championships. Whistler hosted the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 2001 and the FIS Snowboarding World Championships 2005. British Columbia hosted several other major competitions in all winter Olympic sports.

Bid details

Bid Party	Country	National Olympic Committee	Logo	Bid Committee Website	Status
Vancouver	Canada	Canadian Olympic Committee (COC)		https://www.vancouver2030.org/	Stakeholders
Main article: Vancouver bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics
Sapporo	Japan	Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC)			Stakeholders
Main article: Sapporo bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics
Barcelona–Pyrenees	Spain  Andorra  France	Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) Andorran Olympic Committee (COA) French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF)			Stakeholders
Main article: Barcelona–Pyrenees bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics
Salt Lake City	United States	United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC)			Stakeholders
Main article: Salt Lake City bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics

Potential bids

• Lviv, Ukraine^[7] (Ice Sports, Nordic Combined and Ski Jumping in Poland and Sliding in Sigulda, Latvia)

Rejected bids

• Quebec City, Canada.^[8]

Broadcasting rights

•  Brazil – Grupo Globo^[9]
•  Japan – Japan Consortium^[10]
•  North Korea – JTBC^[11]
•  South Korea – JTBC^[11]
•  United States – NBCUniversal^[12]

References

1. "Future Olympic Games elections to be more flexible". International Olympic Committee. 2 May 2019.
2. "Evolution of the revolution: IOC transforms future Olympic Games elections". International Olympic Committee. 26 June 2019.
3. "IOC Members Kristin Kloster Aasen and Octavian Morariu lead Future Host Commissions". International Olympic Committee. 3 October 2019.
4. "Future Host Commissions: Terms of Reference" (PDF). International Olympic Committee. 3 October 2019.
5. "Vancouver would be a favourite to win 2030 Winter Olympics",https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-2030-winter-olympics-competition-bid-cities
6. "Olympics? Commonwealth? Invictus? B.C. considering games bids to boost pandemic recovery", https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/olympics-commonwealth-invictus-b-c-considering-games-bids-to-boost-pandemic-recovery-1.5918969
7. "Lviv Plans to Bid for 2030 Winter Olympics". Lviv Today. November 2019.
8. http://quebecjeux2030.com/
9. "IOC reaches agreement for broadcast rights in Brazil with Grupo Globo through to 2032". International Olympic Committee. Olympic.org. 10 December 2015. Archived from the original on 13 December 2015. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
10. "IOC awards broadcast rights to the Japan Consortium through to 2032". IOC. Olympic.org. 14 November 2019. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
11. "IOC awards 2026-2032 Olympic Games broadcast rights in Korea to JTBC". International Olympic Committee. Olympic.org. 4 June 2019. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
12. "IOC awards Olympic Games broadcast rights to NBCUniversal through to 2032". International Olympic Committee. 7 May 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2017.

Preceded by Milan-Cortina d'Ampezzo

Winter Olympic Games Host City XXVI Olympiad (2030)

Succeeded by TBD