Concerned about the impact of climate change on the Winter Olympics, the International Olympic Committee delays choosing a host for the 2030 Games for at least 13 months as it tries to figure out how to hold a February Olympics on a warming planet.
The IOC has been in conversations with representatives from Salt Lake City, Vancouver and Sapporo, Japan, and there had been indications that one of those cities soon would be invited to hold exclusive conversations with the IOC’s future games committee — a final step toward being named as host for 2030. Instead, the committee’s executive board raised several questions about climate change at a Tuesday meeting.
After a long discussion that included suggestions that future Winter Olympics be held only in places that have average February temperatures of 32 degrees and the possibility of rotating Winter Games among a small pool of places guaranteed to be cold, the executive board decided the IOC needs to study its options before making a choice for 2030. The 2026 Games will be held in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.
IOC officials said the delay in naming a 2030 city is not related to concerns about the existing bids and stressed the organization needs to understand the dangers of planning future Olympics in places that will be too warm to adequately handle them.
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