Bids for the 2030 Winter Olympics

The 2030 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXVI Olympic Winter Games, is an upcoming international multi-sport event scheduled to take place in February 2030. The host city will be elected at the 142nd IOC Session in Paris on 24 July 2024, two days before the 2024 Summer Olympics.

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.

Future host winter commissions
The full composition of the winter commissions, which oversee interested hosts or engage with potential hosts with which the IOC may want to create interest, is as follows:

Dialogue stages
According to the Future Host Commission's rules of conduct, the new IOC bidding system is divided into 2 dialogue stages:

Continuous dialogue
Non-committal discussions between the IOC and interested parties (City/Region/Country/NOC interested in hosting) with regard to hosting future Olympic events.

During the Olympic Summit on 9 December 2022, the IOC informed to remain in "Continuous Dialogue" with several well-developed projects by parties that have expressed interest in the Olympic Winter Games 2030 and with whom intense collaboration is ongoing. The Summit was also informed that the commission is looking into challenges and opportunities facing future Olympic Winter Games, such as the impact of climate change. A number of proposals that could have an impact on future elections were discussed, including rotation of the Games within a certain pool of hosts, minimum climate conditions, and existing infrastructure criteria.

Upon the request of the commission, the IOC Executive Board decided to give the Commission more time to study all these factors to make the best possible decisions about future hosting, including a revised 2030 election timeframe.

Targeted dialogue
''Targeted discussions 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.

Bidding parties
The three first potential submitting bidding parties were revealed by Octavian Morariu, the chair of the Future Host Winter Commission, during the 135th IOC Session at the SwissTech Convention Centre in Lausanne, Switzerland in January 2020. He mentioned Salt Lake City of the United States, Sapporo of Japan and a joint bid from the Spanish cities of Barcelona and Zaragoza at the Pyrenees region have conducted feasibility studies. In 2022, Spain withdrew their bid. Vancouver, Canada, made a preliminary bid submission in February 2021, but withdrew in October 2022.

Media reported on 29 June 2023 that five countries have officially declared interest in hosting a future edition of the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games and that a sixth has expressed interest but has yet to enter into 'continuous dialogue'. IOC Executive Director Christophe Dubi also confirmed the countries are:
 * 🇸🇪 Sweden
 * Switzerland
 * 🇺🇸 United States
 * 🇨🇦 Canada
 * 🇯🇵 Japan
 * 🇫🇷 France

Stakeholders
Stakeholders are those cities or regions that have expressed potential interest in hosting the Games. To date, seven National Olympic Committees have expressed interest, though Spain, Canada, and Japan later withdrew. The remaining four interested sites are as follows:

Developments
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. Due to impacts from climate change and other economic factors, the IOC is now studying a number of changes to future games, such as rotating host cities, limiting the games to existing or temporary venues, and establishing minimum average temperature requirements. It also considered awarding the 2030 and 2034 winter games simultaneously at the next IOC session, but IOC President Thomas Bach has ruled out that possibility because "it would not be the right thing to do." 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.

Potential bids

 * 🇰🇿 Almaty, Kazakhstan
 * Borjomi, Georgia
 * 🇨🇦 Calgary, Canada
 * Trojena, Saudi Arabia
 * 🇧🇦 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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