The IOC has “finalized the venues” for the 2030 Winter Olympics and Paralympics after months of “uncertainty over France’s ability and willingness to host the 2030 Winter Olympics and Paralympics,” according to Matt Slater of THE ATHLETIC. Ice sports will move from Nice to Lyon, and snow sports will be “spread over some of the most famous resorts in the French Alps.” Following a three-day visit by its coordination committee, the IOC confirmed on Wednesday that the ice hockey competition will be “split between two venues, the LDLC Arena and Hall Tony Garnier, while Lyon’s Eurexpo convention center will host curling, figure skating and short-track speed skating, as well as the main media center.” The other key announcement from the visit was “confirmation that the high-speed skiing events, the downhill and super-G, will be held in Courchevel, while the more technical giant slalom and slalom events will be staged in nearby Val d’Isère.” The rest of the events — the biathlon, cross-country skiing, snowboarding, among others — will be “split between the Briancon and Haute-Savoie clusters,” with one notable exception: “the long-track speed skating, which will be held in the Netherlands.” Lyon had no existing venues, thus it was decided for “cost reasons to hold these races in Heerenveen’s Thialf ice arena” (THE ATHLETIC, 9/16).
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