Sweden May Bid for 2030 Winter Olympics
9th February 2023
Last modified on February 20th, 2023
The Swedish Olympic and Paralympic Committees are considering bidding to host the Winter Games in 2030. The IOC has welcomed the interest as other cities fall away.
They’re to start a feasibility study and report on 20th April.
Sweden failed in its attempt to host the 2026 Winter Olympics when Stockholm-Are lost out to Milan-Cortina in Italy.
The Scandinavian country has never staged the Winter Olympics.
The International Olympic Committee said in December that it would delay the awarding of the 2030 Games, partly as a result of the challenges of climate change.
The International Olympic Committee, IOC, has welcomed interest.
“The International Olympic Committee welcomes this renewed interest from the Swedish Olympic committee, which previously proposed a project for the Olympic Winter Games 2026,” the IOC told insidethegames.
“Under the new approach to electing Olympic hosts, the IOC is permanently open to informal and non-committal discussions with any cities, regions or countries and their National Olympic Committees in any part of the world that are interested in hosting the Games of the Olympiad, the Olympic Winter Games, or the Summer or Winter Youth Olympic Games.
“These discussions are not linked to a particular year or election of the Games and there is no longer a fixed election cycle, as in the past.”
Sweden’s Prime Minister, Ulf Kristersson, has said he did not want to draw any “hasty conclusions” until the outcome of a feasibility study.
The successful bidder for the 2020 Games had been expected to be announced at the IOC Session in Mumbai in autumn this year.
Sapporo in Japan was the favourite for 2030 before the Tokyo 2020 Olympics bribery scandal erupted.
Shortly after the IOC said it was delaying its decision, Sapporo put its bid on hold.
Salt Lake City in Utah is the only other potential candidate, though it has said it would prefer to wait until 2034.
It hosted the Games in 2002.
Vancouver in Canada was in the running too but the government of British Columbia has said it will not fund the bid.
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