LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The favored French candidacy to host the 2030 Winter Olympics is in talks with the Netherlands and Italy to stage speed skating races.
The cross-border option was detailed on Monday by International Olympic Committee officials ahead of a visit next week to proposed venues in French Alps ski resorts and Nice, the upscale French Riviera coastal city.
Nice does not have enough venues for all Olympic events on ice and the IOC now encourages hosts to avoid construction costs by finding cheaper solutions abroad.
“We have several candidates with whom the French team will discuss,” the IOC executive director of the Olympic Games, Christophe Dubi, said in an online briefing.
Dubi suggested France’s neighbors Italy — which will host the 2026 Winter Games in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo — and the Netherlands, a longtime power in speed skating. The Dutch team won six speed skating gold medals at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, including three for Irene Schouten.
Iran helicopter crash that killed President Raisi could reverberate across the Middle East
Speed reduction reversal welcomed by West Coast
US court blocks strict new immigration law in Texas
Moscow attack: Russian court charges four men with act of terrorism
Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to Maryland ban on rifles known as assault weapons
Jehovah's Witness Church takes case over Abuse in Care ruling to Court of Appeal
Cathay Pacific asks staff to take three weeks unpaid leave as coronavirus hits bottom line
Auckland lodge fire: Caravan user forced to stick to one set of clothes
Burglar hurled stolen mobile phones at police from the top of 60ft high roof during nine
Movement of pilot's seat a focus of probe into LATAM Boeing flight, report says