2030 Winter Olympics

XXVI Olympic Winter Games

Opening	8 February
Closing	24 February
Winter Summer 2030 Winter Paralympics

The 2030 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXVI Olympic Winter Games, is an upcoming international multi-sport event. The host city is set to be elected at the 140th IOC Session in Mumbai 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:

• 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 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:

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) Ivo Ferriani (AIOWF) Neven Ilic (NOCs) Rita van Driel (IPC member)

Dialogue stages

According to the Future Host Commission's rules of conduct, the new IOC bidding system is divided into 2 dialogue stages:

• 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, the chair of the Future Host Winter Commission, during the 135th IOC Session at the SwissTech Convention Centre in Lausanne, Switzerland. He mentioned Salt Lake City of the United States, and Sapporo of Japan have conducted feasibility studies. Vancouver, Canada made a preliminary bid submission in February 2021.

Stakeholders

Stakeholders are those cities or regions that have expressed potential interest in hosting the Games. To date, four National Olympic Committees have expressed interest, though Spain and Japan later withdrew. The remaining two interested sites are as follows:

• Salt Lake City, Utah, United States; site of the 2002 Winter Olympics and 2007 Winter Deaflympics. In February 2020, following the announcement of Sapporo's bid, the organizing committee for the Salt Lake City bid was considered moving their intention to bid for the 2034 Games as the Summer Games are scheduled for Los Angeles in 2028. At the first meeting in June 2021, the organizing committee considered whether it should change the bid for 2030 or 2034. The decision for Salt Lake City on the bidding for 2030 or 2034 Winter Olympics could be made after Beijing 2022 ending. President and chief executive of the Salt Lake City Bid Committee Fraser Bullock mentioned that the small window between the Los Angeles 2028 and a potential Salt Lake City 2030 Games could be a real difficulty to manage and that the feasibility study for this is still ongoing. The IOC sent a delegation to Salt Lake City, from April 27 to 29, 2022, to inspection and a technical site visit, the competitions, ceremonies and Olympic Village venues.
• Vancouver–Whistler, British Columbia, Canada; Vancouver and Whistler hosted together 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, and is scheduled to host the 2023 FIS Nordic Junior/U23 World Ski Championships as well as the 2025 Invictus Games in Vancouver-Whistler. British Columbia hosted several other major competitions in all summer and winter Olympic sports.

Developments

An internal source from IOC has mentioned that the 2030 and 2034 winter games could be awarded simultaneously at the next IOC session,  but IOC President Thomas Bach has downplayed that possibility, saying "It would not be the right thing to do." 

Bid details

Bid Party	Country	National Olympic Committee	Bid Committee Website	Status
Salt Lake City	United States	U.S. Olympic Committee (USOPC)		Stakeholders
Sapporo	Japan	Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC)	sapporo2030.jp	Stakeholders
Main article: Sapporo bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics
Vancouver–Whistler	Canada	Canadian Olympic Committee (COC)		Stakeholders
Main article: Vancouver bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics

Potential bids

• Almaty, Kazakhstan
• Borjomi, Georgia
• Leipzig, Germany & Prague, Czech Republic
• Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Savoy, France

Cancelled bids

• Barcelona–Pyrenees, Spain

Broadcasting rights

• Brazil – Grupo Globo
• Canada – CBC/Radio-Canada
• China – CMG
• Japan – Japan Consortium
• Korea – JTBC
• United States – NBCUniversal