What 2030 Winter Games bid pause by Sapporo means for Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City’s primary competitor to hold the 2030 Winter Games is pausing from bidding process.

Sapporo’s mayor and also various other authorities just recently announced the pause, to take care of the influence of Japan’s expanding Olympic bribery scandal including repayments made to coordinators of the 2020 Summer Games kept in Tokyo in 2014.

“We recognize we cannot move forward unless we review our operations for the 2030 Games and show that to the world,” Sapporo Mayor Katsuhiro Akimoto told reporters onDec 20, according to The Associated Press.

As for bidding process, the mayor stated Sapporo “will discontinue for some time any aggressive effort on such activities. We will review our bid to gain the true understanding of the people of the city.”

But that does not imply Sapporo runs out the operating.

The single frontrunner in a race that might likewise still consist of Vancouver,…