IOC Recommends France and USA to Host 2030 and 2034 Winter Olympics
12th June 2024
Last modified on June 14th, 2024
The French Alps has been put forward for the 2030 Winter Olympics with Salt Lake City in Utah in line to host the 2034 Games.
The vote to approve the bids will take place at the Olympic body’s session in Paris on 24th July.
“The future host commission is confident that these two preferred hosts represent a great opportunity for successful and sustainable Olympic Winter Games,” said the head of the IOC’s future host commission, Karl Stoss.
The French bid still needs to have some guarantees prior to next month’s vote because of the country’s uncertain political situation with an election called.
The IOC is seeking a ‘Games delivery guarantee’ from the French government.
See here for an earlier PlanetSKI article on the French bid:
Meribel, France. Image © PlanetSKI
It also requested “confirmation of a public partnership contribution to the Games organisation budget from the two regions of Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur and the French government”.
Stoss added: “We are very confident that both guarantees will come earlier than the IOC session.”
Salt Lake City was initially set to bid for the 2030 Games, but pulled out of the running because the date was thought to be too close to the 2028 summer Olympics in Los Angeles in California.
The Salt Lake City-Utah Committee for the Games released its budget this week to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as part of their response to the Future Host Questionnaire.
The organisers projected that hosting the 2034 Winter Games in Utah would cost nearly $4 billion (€3.7 billion).
That includes $2.83 billion (€2.6 billion) for core operations and promised no state or local public funding will be used to fund the Games.
“A cornerstone of our financial plan is that we will raise our entire Games operating budget from commercial and private sources, with no use of state or local taxpayer dollars,” said the president and CEO of the Salt Lake City-Utah Committee for the Games, Fraser Bullock.
