2030 Winter Olympics bid timeline: Who will host upcoming Games?

This was meant to be the year the International Olympic Committee picked the website of the 2030 Winter Games based upon proposals from Salt Lake City; Sapporo, Japan; and also Vancouver, Canada.

There had actually also been a possibility the selection would certainly have been just about made now, had IOC leaders selected a bid city to development to the agreement settlement phase of the new, less formal selection process throughout their December conference.

But rather, they determined to upend a revealed timeline that had actually currently consistently changed, postponing a choice likely till 2024 and also restoring the opportunity that hosts for both the 2030 and also 2034 Winter Games may be named together.

That would certainly offer the IOC even more time to think about a strategy to rotate future Winter Games amongst irreversible websites picked for their capacity to weather the results of environment modification on competitors locations– while …