2030 Winter Olympics


The 2030 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXVI Olympic Winter Games, is an upcoming international multi-sport event. It will be organised in a city designated by the International Olympic Committee. The winning bid for host city will be announced at the 140th IOC Session in Mumbai, India, in 2023.

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:
The IOC also modified the Olympic Charter to increase its flexibility by removing the date of election from 7 years before the games, and changing the host as a city from a single city/region/country to multiple cities, regions, or countries.

Future Host Winter Commissions

The full composition of the Winter Commissions, overseeing interested hosts or with potential hosts where the IOC may want to focus on, is as follows:
IOC members Other members

  • Zhang Hong
  • Gian-Franco Kasper
  • Neven Ilic
  • Rita van Driel

    • Dialogue stages

    According to Future Host Commission terms of reference with rules of conduct, the new IOC bidding system is divided to 2 dialogue stages are
    The three potential bidding parties were revealed by Octavian Morariu, chair of Future Host Winter Commission, during 135th IOC Session at SwissTech Convention Center in Lausanne, Switzerland. He mentioned Sapporo of Japan is the furthest advanced of the three possible candidatures. While, Salt Lake City of the United States, and Barcelona–Pyrenees of Spain have conducted feasibility studies.

    Interested Party

    The interested party, which took part in targeted dialogue with IOC and Future Host Commission:

    Potential Bids

    Europe