Salt Lake City still on track for 2034 Olympics vote. French elections delay plans for 2030 edition
Salt Lake City is still cruising toward being named the 2034 Winter Olympics host next... French President Emmanuel Macron has delayed plans for the 2030 edition of the Olympics in France, causing a delay in signing off paperwork required by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The announcement of two rounds of national elections and a potential change of government is delaying signing off financial guarantees sought by national and regional levels of government. The IOC still plans to confirm both expected Winter Games hosts on July 24 in Paris. However, the French parliamentary elections have created a significant obstacle for the French Alps bid, which is expected to win. The timeline of the opening ceremony in 2030 is already the tightest any modern Olympic host has faced.
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French President Emmanuel Macron reacts as he delivers a speech, Wednesday, June 12, 2024 in Paris. President Emmanuel Macron is addressing French voters on Wednesday for the first times since he has called snap national election following a crushing defeat of his party by the far-right in the European vote. FILE - The scoreboard at the University of Utah's Rice-Eccles Stadium promotes Salt Lake City's bid to host another Winter Olympics in 2034 as International Olympic Committee members prepare to tour the stadium and other venues on April 10, 2024, in Salt Lake City. Organizers of the Salt Lake City Olympic committee will reveal on Monday, June 10, 2024, the estimated budget for hosting the 2034 Winter Olympics. FILE - Karl Stoss, center, chairman of the International Olympic Committee's Future Host Commission, walks across the football field at Rice-Eccles Stadium on the campus of University of Utah, Wednesday, April 10, 2024, in Salt Lake City. Organizers of the Salt Lake City Olympic committee will reveal on Monday, June 10, 2024, the estimated budget for hosting the 2034 Winter Olympics. FILE - The 2002 Winter Olympic rings are shown outside Rice-Eccles Stadium on April 10, 2024, in Salt Lake City. Organizers of the Salt Lake City Olympic committee will reveal on Monday, June 10, 2024, the estimated budget for hosting the 2034 Winter Olympics. International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach speaks at the opening of the executive board meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), at the Olympic House, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Wednesday, June 12, 2024. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — While Salt Lake City is cruising toward being named the 2034 Winter Olympics host next month, the French parliamentary elections suddenly called by President Emmanuel Macron have created a bump in the road for the 2030 edition that the French Alps bid is expected to win.
Voting to confirm both expected Winter Games hosts is still the plan on July 24 in Paris, on the eve of the next Summer Games, the International Olympic Committee said Wednesday.
However, Macron’s surprise announcement Sunday of two rounds of national elections on June 30 and July 7 — and a possible change of government, if not the presidency — is delaying signing off paperwork that the IOC demands. Macron acted after far-right opponents made gains in European parliamentary elections.
Instead, financial and organizational guarantees sought from national and regional levels of government will now have just over two weeks to be completed before the IOC holds its annual meeting for about 100 members.
The timeline of barely 5½ years to prepare for a scheduled opening ceremony in February 2030 in the south of France is already the tightest any modern Olympic host has faced.
“Between the 7th of July and the IOC Session in Paris we will reach this confirmation about the guarantees,” said Karl Stoss, the IOC member overseeing the Salt Lake City and French Alps projects for the Olympic body.
“This is very clear for us. We are very confident with this one,” Stoss said at an online briefing.
Each candidate for 2030 and 2034 has had no rival since entering exclusive talks with the IOC last November. That move left competing bids from Sweden and Switzerland out in the cold.
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