2030 Winter Olympics facts for kids
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| Host city | French Alps and Nice, France | ||
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| Opening | 8 February | ||
| Closing | 24 February | ||
| Stadium | Allianz Riviera (closing ceremony) | ||
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The 2030 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXVI Olympic Winter Games and also known as French Alps 2030, is an upcoming international multi-sport event scheduled to take place around the French Alps cities from 8 to 24 February 2030. The host region was announced at the 142nd IOC Session in Paris on 24 July 2024, two days before the start of the 2024 Summer Olympics.
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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 in choosing hosts by making the date of elections more flexible and allowing multiple cities, regions, or countries to host instead of only single cities, regions or countries.
According to the Future Host Commission's rules of conduct, the new IOC bidding system is divided into 2 dialogue stages:
- Continuous dialogue involving 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 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. Following a recommendation by the International Olympic Committee (IOC)'s Future Host Commission for the Olympic Winter Games, the IOC Executive Board (EB) on 29 November 2023 invited the French National Olympic Committee (CNOSF) into "Targeted Dialogue" towards hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games 2030 in the French Alps.
Host selection
The French Alps was confirmed as host of the 2030 Winter Olympics at the 142nd IOC Session on 24 July 2024 in Paris, France. As per the new format of choosing future Olympic Games host cities from the IOC's Agenda 2020, the vote was in a form of a referendum to the 95 IOC delegates. Like the 2024 and 2028 Summer Olympics, the 2030 and 2034 Winter Olympics were awarded simutaneously; the first to France and the second to the United States.
| City | NOC name | Yes | No | Abs |
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| French Alps |  France |
84 | 4 | 7 |
Organisation
Development and preparations
A decision on the 2030 Winter Olympics host city has been delayed until 24 July 2024, to allow the IOC more time to carefully plan the future of the Winter Olympics. However, at the 141st IOC Session in Mumbai, where these games were originally set to be awarded, the IOC approved to award both the 2030 and 2034 Winter Olympics at the 142nd IOC Session in Paris on the eve of the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Venues
The venues for the opening ceremony and Speedskating have yet to be determined.
Nice Cluster
- Palais des Expositions Acropolis – Figure skating, Short track speed skating
- Parcelle "SUD /Eco-quatier" – Ice hockey
- Plaine du Var – Ice hockey
- Palais Nikaïa – Curling
- Allianz Riviera – Closing ceremony
- Futur Palais des Congrès de Nice – Press centre
- Marché d'Intéret National Fleurs – Broadcasting centre
Briançon – Montgenèvre – Serre Chevalier Cluster
- Montgenèvre – Big Air, Slopestyle, Parallelgiantslalom
- Serre Chevalier – Aerials, Moguls, Halfpipe
- Briançon – Olympic Village
- TBD – Snowboardcross, Ski Cross
Bozel – Courchevel – Méribel – La Plagne
- La Plagne – Bob, Skeleton, Luge, Olympic Village
- Bozel – Olympic Village
- Méribel – Alpine Skiing (Women), Nordic Combined
- Courchevel – Alpine Skiing (Men), Ski Jumping, Nordic Combined
La Clusaz – Le Grand-Bornand Cluster
- La Clusaz – Cross-Country Skiing
- Le Grand-Bornand – Biathlon
- TBD – Olympic Village
Broadcasting rights
- Albania – RTSH
- Asia – Infront Sports & Media
- Australia – Nine
- Austria – ORF
- Belgium – RTBF, VRT
- Brazil – Grupo Globo
- Bulgaria – BNT
- Canada – CBC/Radio-Canada
- China – CMG
- Croatia – HRT
- Czech Republic – ČT
- Denmark – DR, TV 2
- Europe (except Russia and Belarus) – EBU, Warner Bros. Discovery
- Estonia – ERR
- Finland – Yle
- France – France Télévisions
- Germany – ARD, ZDF
- Greece – ERT
- Hungary – MTVA
- Iceland – RÚV
- Ireland – RTÉ
- Israel – Sports Channel
- Italy – RAI
- Japan – Japan Consortium
- Latvia – LTV
- Kosovo – RTK
- Lithuania – LRT
- Montenegro – RTCG
- Netherlands – NOS
- Norway – NRK
- Poland – TVP
- Slovakia – STVR
- Slovenia – RTV
- Korea – JTBC
- Spain – RTVE
- Sweden – SVT
- Switzerland – SRG SSR
- Ukraine – Suspilne
- United Kingdom – BBC
- United States – NBCUniversal
See also
In Spanish: Juegos Olímpicos de Alpes Franceses de 2030 para niños
