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Template:Future sport The 2018 Winter Olympics, formally called the XXIII Winter Olympic Games, will be an international athletic event that has yet to be organized by the International Olympic Committee. The organization under the leadership of Jacques Rogge is currently preparing to mount calls for cities to bid for the honor of hosting the event.

Potential bids

United States cities have already announced plans to compete for the opportunity to host the 2018 Winter Olympics. Salt Lake City, Utah has shown its interest in hosting the games for the second time. The Lake Tahoe region, which is divided between California and Nevada and has also hosted the Winter Olympics (Squaw Valley 1960), has also conducted feasibility studies for these Games.

In the case the city of Salzburg won't be successful in the 2014 bid, the Austrian Olympic committee announced that Salzburg won't get another chance for competing to host the games. Still a German-Austrian bid with Innsbruck and Garmisch Partenkirchen as the hosting cities is considered as an alternative.

Denver, Colorado is conducting a feasibility study for either the 2018 Winter Olympics or 2020 Summer Olympics. However, Denver has the dubious distinction of being the only city to reject hosting duties after being awarded the hosting rights without a compelling reason (Rome rejected its hosting duties for the 1908 Summer Olympics because of reconstruction efforts following a volcanic eruption). This is widely viewed as a huge hindrance to the bid effort, if not killing it completely. Lake Placid, New York is also rumored to be considering a bid.

The French Olympic committee will need to choose between three potential candidate cities -- Annecy, which had originally intended to bid for the 2014 Winter Olympics, has been joined in the running by Grenoble and Gap.

Other possible candidate cities include Tashkent, Uzbekistan; Christchurch, New Zealand; Beirut, Lebanon; Stockholm, Sweden; Quebec City, Canada; Moscow, Russia; and Tromsø, Norway.

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[WW1-1] Cancelled due to World War I

[WW2-2] Cancelled due to World War II

[COVID2021-3] Postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic

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 [[United States]] cities have already announced plans to compete for the opportunity to host the 2018 Winter Olympics. '''[[Salt Lake City, Utah|Salt Lake City]]''', [[Utah]] has shown its interest in hosting the games for the second time. The '''[[Lake Tahoe]]''' region, which is divided between [[California]] and [[Nevada]] and has also hosted the Winter Olympics ([[1960 Winter Olympics|Squaw Valley 1960]]), has also conducted feasibility studies for these Games.
+In the case the city of [[Salzburg]] won't be successful in the 2014 bid, the Austrian Olympic committee announced that Salzburg won't get another chance for competing to host the games. Still a German-Austrian bid with Innsbruck and Garmisch Partenkirchen as the hosting cities is considered as an alternative.
 '''[[Denver, Colorado|Denver]]''', [[Colorado]] is conducting a feasibility study for either the 2018 Winter Olympics or [[2020 Summer Olympics]]. However, Denver has the dubious distinction of being the only city to [[1976 Winter Olympics|reject hosting duties]] after being awarded the hosting rights without a compelling reason ([[Rome]] rejected its hosting duties for the [[1908 Summer Olympics]] because of reconstruction efforts following a volcanic eruption). This is widely viewed as a huge hindrance to the bid effort, if not killing it completely. [[Lake Placid]], New York is also rumored to be considering a bid.